grating | | |
n. (artifact) | 1. grate, grating | a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air. |
| ~ barrier | a structure or object that impedes free movement. |
| ~ radiator grille, grille | grating that admits cooling air to car's radiator. |
n. (artifact) | 2. grate, grating | a frame of iron bars to hold a fire. |
| ~ framework | a structure supporting or containing something. |
| ~ furnace | an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.. |
| ~ cooking stove, kitchen range, kitchen stove, stove, range | a kitchen appliance used for cooking food.; "dinner was already on the stove" |
n. (artifact) | 3. diffraction grating, grating | 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. |
| ~ echelon | a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset. |
| ~ optical device | a device for producing or controlling light. |
adj. | 4. grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy | unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.; "a gravelly voice" |
| ~ cacophonic, cacophonous | having an unpleasant sound.; "as cacophonous as a henyard" |
grille | | |
n. (artifact) | 1. grille, lattice, wicket | small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted. |
| ~ opening | a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made.; "they left a small opening for the cat at the bottom of the door" |
| ~ stump | (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket. |
n. (artifact) | 2. grille, radiator grille | grating that admits cooling air to car's radiator. |
| ~ auto, automobile, car, motorcar, machine | a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine.; "he needs a car to get to work" |
| ~ grating, grate | a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air. |
n. (artifact) | 3. grill, grille, grillwork | a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate.; "he cooked hamburgers on the grill" |
| ~ framework | a structure supporting or containing something. |
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