different between grate vs gridiron

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????da??n/

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain, perhaps related to griddle. The ending was assimilated to iron, as if from grid +? iron, whence grid was later derived.

Noun

gridiron (plural gridirons)

1. An instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire. [from 13th c.]
2. An iron rack or grate used for broiling meat and fish over coals. [from 14th c.]

Related terms

• iron
• grid

Derived terms

• gridiron football
• gridiron pendulum
• gridiron valve

Translations

Etymology 2

From resembling the shape of a gridiron (a square rectilinear grid)

Noun

gridiron (countable and uncountable, plural gridirons)

1. Any object resembling the rack or grate. [from 15th c.]
2. (nautical) An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.
3. (theater) A raised framework from which lighting is suspended.
4. (American football) The field on which American football is played. [from 19th c.]
5. (uncountable, Australia and New Zealand) American and Canadian football, particularly when used to distinguish from other codes of football.
   • 1995 October 3, Peter O?Shea, Sports: Out on the field, The Advocate, page 54,

     He represented Australia in this year?s rugby tour of England and is as well-known in Australia as any top gridiron player is in the United States.

   • 2001, Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard, Jackie Robinson: First Negro in Big League Baseball: 1919—, The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 12: Works for Children and Young Adults, page 106,

     So Jackie?s name became known far and wide as an exceptional gridiron player.

   • 2009, Deborah Healey, Sport and the Law, reference note, UNSW Press, page 271,

     119 Yasser (1985) cites the famous US example of gridiron player Dick Butkus of the Chicago Bears.

Synonyms

• (playing field for American football): football field
• (football, Canadian and American): North American football, gridiron football, football (North American English)
• (American football): football (US English)

Translations

Verb

gridiron (third-person singular simple present gridirons, present participle gridironing, simple past and past participle gridironed)

1. To mark or cover with lines; to crisscross.
   • 1901, Archibald John Little, Mount Omi and Beyond: A Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border, Cambridge University Press, 2010, Conclusion, p. 242, [1]

     This basin of Szechuan (literally "Four Streams," but which, reading the character idiographically, I should be inclined to render as "Gridironed by Streams"), […]

   • 1923, Maximilian P.E. Groszmann, A Parent's Manual: Child Problems, Mental and Moral, New York: Century, p. 74, [2]

     Another logical method is that of gridironing the field by a series of straight paths that are parallel to each other.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 8, [3]

     When Billy saw the culprit's naked back under the scourge gridironed with red welts, and worse […] Billy was horrified.

   • 1949, Lewis Sinclair, The God-Seeker, New York: Popular Library, Chapter 42, p. 227,

     His white back, gridironed with scars, was as soft as a baby's.

   • 2012, Janet Wallach, The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age, New York: Anchor Books, 2013, Chapter 8, p. 111, [4]

     Railways spanned the continent and gridironed the states.

2. (New Zealand, historical) To purchase land so that the remaining adjacent sections are smaller than the minimum area purchasable as freehold, thus excluding potential freeholders.

See also

• gridiron on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gridiron on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

References