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gratingly

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

嘎嘎地响,嘎吱嘎吱地,嘎嘎地,嘎吱嘎吱地响

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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

  • Since then, edges, bars, or gratings have become the stimuli of choice.

  • Ebert called the tourists “ teeth-gratingly broad and obvious”.

  • But now he began to make such a strange crowing noise, just like a chair drawn heavily and gratingly along a kitchen-floor!

  • "Kill 'em both with one stone, then," wheezed the turnkey, gratingly throwing open the door of the cell.

  • It was as though she had physically felt the steel of his blade slide gratingly once more down from her parry.

  • Lift the latch quietly, though, for there is grief in the room, and noise comes harshly and gratingly upon a sorrowing ear.

  • After all, it was so much simpler than if he had won, for then––then––He laughed gratingly at the thought.