(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.
Prater
Definition:
(n.) One who prates.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mostafa, a taxi driver who arrived from Egypt 16 years ago, and who was dropping guests off at an FPÖ party at the Prater on Sunday evening, said every leap the FPÖ made in the polls made life increasingly difficult for many of Austria’s foreigners, particularly those from Arab countries like himself.
(2) The gene was contained in a 2.8-kilobase DNA fragment which was obtained from a lambda transducing bacteriophage, lambda dglpK100 (Conrad, C.A., Stearns, G.W., III, Prater, W.E., Rheiner, J.A., and Johnson, J.R. (1984) Mol.
(3) The second option, to move to one of the many surrounding whiter, much wealthier suburbs where public schools are better in an American system that largely links public education funding to property value, presented Prater with the fear his children would be treated as intruders and unwelcome – a situation he feels has the potential to be deadly.
(4) 8.41pm GMT Patriots 0-3 Broncos, end of the 1st quarter Shane O'Mahony (@ShaneOMahony2) Brady vs Manning, first blood- Matt Prater @HunterFelt January 19, 2014 Watch this end up being like a 13-10 game at the end of four quarters after all of the hype about the offense.
(5) But all they did was reify racial problems.” Prater, the business owner, father and husband, says he is taken aback when he sees police officers in his majority white suburb of Grosse Pointe Park smiling with residents and throwing a football with them in their local park.
(6) The Broncos went ahead early with a 27-yard field goal by Matt Prater and never relinquished the lead.
(7) Be seen and not heard, and come home safely.” Prater, a 39-year-old business owner who, together with his wife, decided to move his family back to the Detroit area three years ago after living in Atlanta, Georgia, for 13 years – in part to participate in the city’s economic redevelopment – is black, as are his wife and their three children.
(8) Prater said Scott was "no threat at all" at the time.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kicker Matt Prater is unable to tackle Seattle wide receiver Percy Harvin on his way to a touchdown.
(10) So Prater tells his children to never open a can of soda before they have paid for it when they are at CVS, even if they are in line, even if their white friends are doing it.
(11) And while Tucker made his over 40 yard kick in the playoff last year, Prater missed his.
(12) Christopher Prater was in his dining room in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan , on Sunday morning sipping coffee with his wife when he came across a video on Facebook of black teenagers in bathing suits in McKinney being chased down by police, thrown to the ground and threatened with a gun after they attended a pool party in the predominantly white suburb.
(13) Updated at 9.45pm GMT 9.43pm GMT Kickoff Matt Prater kicks it out of the endzone and here come the Chargers - we're off!
(14) The Broncos bring the field goal unit in and Prater's 54-yard attempt is good and, perhaps most importantly, the Pats have just seven minutes to get two touchdowns with two two-point conversions.
(15) Broncos kicker Matt Prater is on the opposite end of the spectrum.
(16) Prater's 35 yard field goal is good, which might be the best case scenario for New England after that frightening drive.
(17) Chargers 0-17 Broncos, 1:07, 3rd quarter The wind claims a Prater field goal attempt from 47 yards out - it's wide left, and that counts as a break for the Chargers, who manage to stall the Broncos drive.
(18) These are not conversations I want to have with my children, but they are conversations I have to have, again and again and again,” Prater says.
(19) Oklahoma County district attorney David Prater told jurors during closing arguments Monday that Harrison put other people in danger when he fired four shots at Scott, placing bystanders and a fellow officer in harm's way before hitting the teenager in the back with the fourth shot.
(20) Patriots 0-3 Broncos, 3:48, 1st quarter But the Broncos can only pick up a yard on three downs, Prater makes a field goal to put them on the board first but the Patriots defense has to be happy to keep Denver out of the endzone.