[
UK
/ɡɹˈeɪtɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈɡɹeɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹeɪtɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum
- a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
- a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
ADJECTIVE
-
unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
a gravelly voice
How To Use grating In A Sentence
- Not that I'm denigrating the effort - I'm good for a few quid once I've got a few beers in me later tonight - but the enforced jollity does occasionally grate.
- Construction here would include offices, retail and hotels with the objective of integrating the docklands with the city centre and extending its functions to the east.
- My knife slips off the screw and with a grating screech marks the white surface of the machine.
- Many birds are nesting earlier than they used to, while others are overwintering in this country instead of migrating to warmer parts.
- Expertly based on simple, smooth, sculptural lines, exploring colour by layering and integrating silk and viscose, adding another textural element to her work.
- Suddenly they upped and moved, telling neighbours that they were emigrating to the US.
- This prevents the chromophore from migrating within the polymer while simultaneously improving the efficiency of energy transfer to the chromophore.
- Speckle tracking in migrating cells with retrograde flow had turned out to be more challenging.
- Compared with the action of this destructive solvent, that of all other disintegrating agencies concerned in our decivilization is as the languorous indiligence of rosewater to the mordant fury of nitric acid. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909
- Additionally, POLARIS reduces total component count by integrating voltage control oscillators and loop filters.