Word: grate

Category: grate

Home & Garden, Business & Industrial, Food & Drink

Related words: grate

grill grate, fireplace grate, iron grate, fire grate, cast iron grate, drain grate, cooking grate, weber grate, metal grate, steel grate, grate ginger, fire pit grate, grill grates, grate cheese, weber grill grate, grill grate replacement

Synonyms: grate

waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels

Translations: grate

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spanish
Translations:
rechinar, reja, rallar
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german
Translations:
feuerrost, gitter, rost
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french
Translations:
craquer, foyer, hier, grille, grincer, grillage, ratisser, gril, âtre, râper, ...
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italian
Translations:
griglia, inferriata, grata, crocchiare
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portuguese
Translations:
cancela, grade
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dutch
Translations:
knarsen, piepen, traliehek, rooster, hek, afrastering
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russian
Translations:
камин, скрипеть, растирать, тереть, решетка, играть, резвиться, разыгрывать, раздражать, перетирать
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norwegian
Translations:
gitter, rist
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finnish
Translations:
kaapia, karahtaa, hieroa, risoa, kitistä, kirskua, arina
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czech
Translations:
mříž, skřípat, mřížka, krb, mřížoví, vrzat, mříže, strouhat, třít, ohniště, ...
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polish
Translations:
drapać, ruszt, trzeć, okratować, skrzypieć, chrypieć, skrobać, zakratować, ognisko, zetrzeć, ...
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turkish
Translations:
ızgara
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ukrainian
Translations:
коминок, камін, труться, скрипіти, терти, ґрати
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estonian
Translations:
rest, kratsima
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slovenian
Translations:
rot
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slovak
Translations:
rošt

The meaning and "use of": grate

noun
  • the recess of a fireplace or furnace. - We were met by Bob's wife and welcomed as though we had got there on time. There was a lovely coal fire burning in the grate , which had been kept ‘banked up’ all day pending our arrival.
  • a grating. - He progressed gingerly towards the gauze grate in the grimy iron girdered floor and was careful not to get too close as he peered into the gloom below.
verb
  • reduce (something, especially food) to small shreds by rubbing it on a grater. - peel and roughly grate the carrots
  • make an unpleasant rasping sound. - the hinges of the door grated

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