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grating
1[ grey-ting ]
noun
- a fixed frame of bars or the like covering an opening to exclude persons, animals, coarse material, or objects while admitting light, air, or fine material.
- Physics. diffraction grating.
grating
2[ grey-ting ]
adjective
- irritating or unpleasant to one's feelings.
- (of a sound or noise) harsh, discordant, or rasping.
grating
1/ ˈɡɪɪŋ /
noun
- Also calledgrate a framework of metal bars in the form of a grille set into a wall, pavement, etc, serving as a cover or guard but admitting air and sometimes light
- short for diffraction grating
grating
2/ ˈɡɪɪŋ /
adjective
- (of sounds) harsh and rasping
- annoying; irritating
noun
- often plural something produced by grating
Derived Forms
- ˈپԲ, adverb
Other 51Թ Forms
- iԲ· adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
It’s boorish and grating, assuming its audience will lap up whatever tasteless parody it puts out for them just because it aligns with popular films that share its basic themes.
The one I find really grating is the traffic noise from Dhaka, Bangladesh, which has the title of the noisiest city in the world.
Knowing everything we do about Monroe — and how much is still unknown — the film’s penultimate scene is grating.
Light from the galaxy passes through a prism or reflects off a diffraction grating in a telescope, which captures the intensity of light from blue to red.
The surrealist experiments are grating, not entirely successful, and a rug-pulling twist lands the overall message of the film in uncomfortably murky waters, especially when considering how victims of violence are treated.
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