different between grate vs gnash

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: gr?t, IPA^(key): /??e?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t
• Homophone: great

Etymology 1

From Middle English grate, from a Medieval Latin gr?ta, from a Latin word for a hurdle; or Italian grata, from Latin cratis.

Noun

grate (plural grates)

1. a horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot
2. a frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning

Synonyms

• grill

Translations

Verb

grate (third-person singular simple present grates, present participle grating, simple past and past participle grated)

1. (transitive) to furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars

Etymology 2

From Middle English graten, from Old French grater (“to scrape”) ( > French gratter), from Frankish *kratt?n, from Proto-Germanic *kratt?n?. Cognate with Old High German krazzon ( > German kratzen (“to scrawl”) > Danish kradse), Icelandic krassa (“to scrawl”) and Danish kratte.

Verb

grate (third-person singular simple present grates, present participle grating, simple past and past participle grated)

1. (transitive, cooking) to shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater

2. (intransitive) to make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something
   • 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part 3 Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     The gate suddenly grated. It was Lestiboudois; he came to fetch his spade, that he had forgotten. He recognised Justin climbing over the wall, and at last knew who was the culprit who stole his potatoes.

3. (by extension, intransitive) to get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy

4. (by extension, transitive) to annoy
   • 2015, Art Levy in Florida Trend, Roland Martin is a Florida 'Icon'

     one of the issues that's kind of grating me a little bit is weed control.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From Latin gr?tus (“agreeable”).

Adjective

grate (comparative more grate, superlative most grate)

1. (obsolete) serving to gratify; agreeable.

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Etymology 4

Adjective

grate (comparative more grate, superlative most grate)

1. Obsolete spelling of great
   • c. 1815, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy Wise

     He promisd her a grate reward

References

Anagrams

• 'Gater, Gater, Greta, ergat-, great, great-, retag, targe, terga

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rate/

Adjective

grate f

1. feminine plural of grato

Anagrams

• terga

Latin

Etymology

From gr?tus (“agreeable”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??ra?.te?/, [??rä?t?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??ra.te/, [??r??t??]

Adverb

gr?t? (comparative gr?tius, superlative gr?tissim?)

1. gladly, willingly
2. gratefully, thankfully

Related terms

References

• grate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• grate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English grot.

Noun

grate

1. a groat

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From Middle English gnasten. Origin unknown; the word is probably either Germanic or onomatopoeic. Compare Old Norse gnastan, German knirschen, German Low German gnirschen, gnörschen (“gnash”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /næ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

• Homophone: Nash

Verb

gnash (third-person singular simple present gnashes, present participle gnashing, simple past and past participle gnashed)

1. (transitive) To grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger.

2. (transitive) To grind between the teeth.

3. (figuratively) To clash together violently.
4. (Tyneside) To run away.

Derived terms

• gnasher/gnashers
• gnashy

Translations

Noun

gnash (plural gnashes)

1. A sudden snapping of the teeth.

Anagrams

• Ghans, Shang, hangs