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grating
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???e?t??/
- (General American) IPA(key): [???e?????]
- Homophone: grading
- Rhymes: -e?t??
Adjective
grating
- (typically of a voice) Harsh and unpleasant.
- Abrasive; tending to annoy.
Translations
Noun
grating (plural gratings)
- A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
- A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
- The loose material that comes from something being grated.
- Add a few gratings of nutmeg to the hot milk.
- An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
- (nautical, in the plural) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
- The sound made by something that grates against something else.
- 1901, Melville Cox Keith, Keith's Domestic Practice and Botanic Handbook
- If, with these symptoms, are heard gratings of the teeth, irregular appetite, and sudden ebullitions of temper we may reasonably conclude that parasites are irritating the intestines and should be gotten rid of.
- 1901, Melville Cox Keith, Keith's Domestic Practice and Botanic Handbook
Synonyms
- grill
Related terms
- grate
Translations
Verb
grating
- present participle of grate
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attrition
English
Etymology
From Latin attritio (“a rubbing against”), from the verb attritus, past participle of atterere (“to wear”), from ad- (“to, towards”) + terere (“to rub”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??t????n]
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
attrition (countable and uncountable, plural attritions)
- Wearing or grinding down by friction.
- The gradual reduction in a tangible or intangible resource due to causes that are passive and do not involve productive use of the resource.
- (human resources) A gradual, natural reduction in membership or personnel, as through retirement, resignation, or death.
- (sciences) The loss of participants during an experiment.
- (theology) Imperfect contrition or remorse.
- (dentistry) The wearing of teeth due to their grinding.
- (linguistics) The loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language.
Synonyms
- (employment reduction by natural causes): natural wastage
Antonyms
- accretion
Derived terms
Related terms
- contrition
Translations
Verb
attrition (third-person singular simple present attritions, present participle attritioning, simple past and past participle attritioned)
- (transitive) To grind or wear down through friction.
- Synonym: attrit
- 1989, Shashi Tharoor, The Great Indian Novel, New York: Arcade, Book 9, p. 189,[2]
- […] He took her in his arms
- And kissed her long and wetly,
- Till, attritioned by her charms,
- His will collapsed completely.
- (transitive) To reduce the number of (jobs or workers) by not hiring new employees to fill positions that become vacant (often with out).
- 1973, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education, Hearings (page 186)
- […] but the heart of the health services in New York will have to attrition out some 3,000 to 5,000 jobs.
- 1989, Herbert S. White, “The Future of Library and Information Science Education” in Librarians and the Awakening from Innocence, Boston: G.K. Hall, p. 86,[3]
- […] expenses can be cut, by attritioning faculty vacancies […]
- 1973, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education, Hearings (page 186)
- (intransitive) To undergo a reduction in number.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- titration
French
Etymology
From Latin attr?ti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.t?i.sj??/
Noun
attrition f (plural attritions)
- attrition
Derived terms
- guerre d'attrition
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