(n.) A structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters.
(n.) A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
(v. t.) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars; as, to grate a window.
(v. t.) To rub roughly or harshly, as one body against another, causing a harsh sound; as, to grate the teeth; to produce (a harsh sound) by rubbing.
(v. t.) To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg.
(v. t.) To fret; to irritate; to offend.
(v. i.) To make a harsh sound by friction.
(v. i.) To produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vertical gratings are tinged with green and horizontal gratings with pink.
(2) It is a moment to be grateful for what remains of Labour's hard left: an amendment to scrap the cap was at least tabled by John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn but stood no chance.
(3) The use of a new ultraviolet laser combined with a holographic grating spectrograph promises to increase the number of fluorescing species that can be detected simultaneously.
(4) Experiment 4 measured curvature selectivity as a function of the orientation of a curved adapting grating.
(5) The ARCT for the 15.0 c deg-1 grating was significantly higher than for the other two gratings.
(6) I personally felt grateful that British TV set itself apart from its international rivals in this way, not afraid to challenge, to stretch the mind and imagination.
(7) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
(8) We should be grateful the School Food Trust has established this now, before we end up falling down a slippery slope back towards the dreaded Turkey Twizzler that Jamie Oliver campaigned to banish," he added.
(9) Dissociated culture of adult mouse dorsal root ganglion cells on glass plates, on which grating-associated microstructures (a repetition of microgrooves [mGRV] and microsteps [mSTP] of 0.1-10 micron) are fabricated by the conventional lithographic techniques, represents a remarkable bi-directional growth of their nerve fibers in the axial direction of the grating.
(10) This leads to the prediction that reaction time to grating onset will be linearly related to the square of the grating frequency.
(11) Accommodation measurements of nine young, emmetropic subjects were obtained with an infrared optometer while they viewed superimposed horizontal and vertical square-wave gratings at various dioptric separations.
(12) The effect of contrast on the range of temporal frequencies over which direction of movement can be discriminated differs for the three types of pattern: beats resemble neither low nor high spatial frequency gratings.
(13) Even before she gets to the Timeless premiere, the Mail Online has run two news stories on her that day: the first detailing what she was wearing in the morning, the second furnishing a grateful world with the news that she'd subsequently changed her outfit and taken her sunglasses off.
(14) However, similarly tested Keplerian telescopes exhibited significantly higher MTF's with vertical gratings.
(15) Acuity for the direction of drift for these stimuli is of the same order of precision as orientation acuity for static or drifting gratings, and exhibits a meridional anisotropy that favours the principal meridians.
(16) AJ Green was waiting just behind him, and the receiver gratefully pulled in the softly fluttering ball.
(17) We tentatively suggest that a preferential loss of contrast sensitivity to horizontal gratings might be due to a functional abnormality in the striate cortex that relatively spares the extrastriate cortex.
(18) A breathless Sturridge was still trying to digest his part in the game when he paid tribute to Hodgson, saying: “I’m grateful to the gaffer for allowing me to score and it’s a beautiful feeling to represent your country in the rivalry against another great country.
(19) A technique for rapid behavioral screening of grating acuity in infants 1 to 4 months of age is described.
(20) "We are enormously grateful that the Komen Foundation has clarified its grantmaking criteria, and we look forward to continuing our partnership with Komen partners, leaders and volunteers.
Grater
Definition:
(a.) One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.
Example Sentences:
(1) He locked horns with the architect again in 2008, using Rogers' 44-storey "cheese grater" tower in the City of London to warn that historic cities were being wrecked.
(2) I use the wide side of the grater or the mandolin for this, although those with better knife skills than me should be able to do a good job of it that way.
(3) Today, London's skyline is dominated by such sights as the Cheese-grater in Leadenhall, the Walkie-talkie in Fenchurch Street, the Gherkin in Aldgate and the Razor at Elephant and Castle.
(4) DL-methinionine in the diet of cows for the first months of lactation leads to grater amounts of milk of higher quality as well as to improving the health of the animals.
(5) The majority of the compounds showed clear antagonist activity towards BaCl2, histamine and acetylcholine contracting responses, generally grater than that of papaverine; on the contrary, their antagonist activity towards 5-HT responses was slightly lower.
(6) On the other hand, the patients who had undergone muscle release had, to grater or lesser extent, disturbances of the range of movement.
(7) Try Auctionstealer , an online tool which bids for you at the last nanosecond, meaning you can watch The Cube while simultaneously winning a grater.
(8) "Russia is already paying a serious price for its actions," William Hague assured the house, the extra helium in his cheese-grater voice an indication of his own gravity.
(9) Although the two-year-olds' extent of exploration and amount of time spent in a playroom were significantly grater when their mother was present than when an unfamiliar person was present, the grandmother's functional characteristics were on an intermediate level between those of the mother and those of the unfamiliar person.
(10) • Prominent in this list are kitchen implements like cheese graters and bottle openers; if you want to make it a bit more fun then you can get various novelty themed equipment .
(11) This paper describes a simple method of obtaining cancellous graft from femoral heads, either allograft or autograft, with "cheese grater" type acetabular reamers.
(12) Roughly grate the eggs on the large holes of the grater, then grate the garlic on the fine side.
(13) The effect of the dnaA mutation was grater on plasmid DNA synthesis than on host chromosomal DNA synthesis.
(14) Out of 49 cases, histologic diagnosis of chronic diffuse lymphocytic thyroiditis was established in nine patients (18%) but the frequency of the appearance of this autoimmune disease may well be grater because a relatively small number of patients underwent the operation.
(15) Epinephrine and insulin increased glucose uptake in Planaria, but epinephrine did so to a much grater extent.
(16) They were quickly alerted to the fact that the Japanese generally do not eat cheese or mashed potatoes during a presentation, leaving the potato masher and grater largely redundant - although the brand has proved particularly successful there and in the US out of the 105 countries they now sell in, mostly through third-party distributors.
(17) Just as the distinctively named Shard of Glass, the Helter Skelter, the Cheese- grater and the Walkie Talkie are being erected across the City, the architect who created the eye-catching Gherkin has declared the London skyscraper building boom is nearing its end.