(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.
Gridiron
Definition:
(n.) A grated iron utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals.
(n.) An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.
(n.) A football field.
Example Sentences:
(1) But all of that has been overshadowed by acts of violence away from the gridiron.
(2) A gridiron incision is excellent for operations for palpable hernias.
(3) Rugby Union, Rugby League, American Football (gridiron), boxing, etc.
(4) In addition, cervical injuries in gridiron football and rugby are outlined.
(5) He dislikes the clubiness of Washington and broke with tradition earlier this year by failing to attend a similar function, the Gridiron dinner.
(6) And while it's true that gridiron jocks can't seem to perform unless interrupted every 10 seconds by schmaltzy corporations peddling their wares, brass bands booming across the pitch and cheerleaders wiggling and jiggling like wind-up titillators, it's also true that American spectators do at least get what they're promised - it may take five hours but eventually they will see 60 minutes of football.
(7) The appearance comes after Obama decided to skip the annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, a white-tie affair at which the president traditionally engages in comic skits with senior members of the press corps.
(8) Ominously, the Chargers’ new gridiron stadium has been stuck in bureaucratic gridlock for nearly a decade.
(9) In only 6% of patients was no abnormality found at operation, and in every case the disorder was dealt with through the gridiron incision.
(10) 12.30am GMT Tweet Graham Parker (@KidWeil) @busfield Tonight's games both old school MLS spectacles - gridiron markings on fields for both New England and Seattle games November 3, 2013 12.29am GMT 19 mins It was Nguyen showing the value of the man-on-the-post for corners there, chesting away Myers' header.
(11) He’s our hero, the gridiron savior riding in from the west (well, Hueytown, Alabama, anyway) to awaken Florida State football from its long spell of mediocrity, leading the Seminoles to their first national championship game in 15 years.
(12) Bobby Jindal , fresh off of his audience-slaying comedy routine at the annual Gridiron Club dinner this past weekend.
(13) "Ian Johnson, a former Boise State, All-American, Running Back, in American Gridiron Football, used to crochet all the time," reports Scott Davenport.
(14) Such an arrangement could be beneficial for both sports as footballers have complained about the state of the pitch after gridiron games while NFL players have said the turf cuts up too easily and leads to injury.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest For four quarters, America (and some around the world) tuned in as the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers obliterated each other on the gridiron.
(16) They have the Rooney Rule in gridiron because they similarly had a high number of black players but no black coaches.
(17) We’re going to see the field covered in gridiron markings for the upcoming Seattle Seahawks game — a situation that a grim-faced Sounders GM Adrian Hanauer pointedly feels could have been avoided: It’s the unfortunate reality of a two professional-team stadium with the timing.
(18) The wise heads that run the NFL have clearly not missed the fact that Londoners are going absolutely gangbusters for gridiron.
(19) The state divide led to a number of cross-border skirmishes in the American civil war, which continued in the form of university football (gridiron) fans killing each other in the stands in the early 20th century.