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grating

/grey-ting/US // ˈgreɪ tɪŋ //UK // (ˈɡreɪtɪŋ) //

栅栏,栅格,篦子,栅极

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a fixed frame of bars or the like covering an opening to exclude persons, animals, coarse material, or objects while admitting light, air, or fine material.
    • : Physics. diffraction grating.

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Examples

  • Marple helps speed up maceration for harder ingredients like ginger and celery by blending, grating, or otherwise breaking them down.

  • They Came Together to Make the World ListenTo Gross, the idea that Cosby got out on a “technicality,” as many tellings would have it, is a grating reduction of a complicated and important process we rely on to produce justice.

  • He’s going about it in his wide-eyed, can’t-we-all-get-along way that his colleagues might find grating if it weren’t so sincere.

  • He fell into a metal rail on the conveyor belt system, “stood up, took a few steps, and fell back onto the grating,” according to the TOSHA report.

  • Using a food processor fitted with coarse grating attachment, or the large holes of a box grater, grate the potatoes.

  • “Go on then,” she said, as if humoring a grating younger sibling.

  • But as the season wore on and her grating nerve wore down, I actually really warmed up to her.

  • Marlow: I also found Soso really grating at first, but like you said, that was the intention.

  • A stout woman with a grating voice, she asked, “So you think life is so good here in Ukraine?”

  • Four years after “Safety Dance,” Men Without Hats returned with the grating ‘Pop Goes the World.’

  • I plainly heard a noise upon the cover of my closet like that of a cable, and the grating of it as it passed through the ring.

  • I do not know—I do not dare to believe—that I shall live to hear that key grating in the lock.

  • Before he realised what had taken place he found himself thrown on the floor, while strange grating noises reached his ears.

  • But what is that monotonous grating sound which continues with mechanical regularity?

  • Beside this door was a heavy iron grating, opening upon a sort of corridor, which gave a little light and a little air.