different between grating vs broiler

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???e?t??/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): [???e?????]
  • Homophone: grading
• Rhymes: -e?t??

Adjective

grating

1. (typically of a voice) Harsh and unpleasant.
2. Abrasive; tending to annoy.

Translations

Noun

grating (plural gratings)

1. A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
2. A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
3. The loose material that comes from something being grated.

   Add a few gratings of nutmeg to the hot milk.

4. An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
5. (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.
6. 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.

Synonyms

• grill

Related terms

• grate

Translations

Verb

grating

1. present participle of grate

English

Etymology

From broil +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b???l?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b???l?/
• Rhymes: -??l?(r)

Noun

broiler (plural broilers)

1. A person who broils, someone who cooks by broiling.
2. (cooking, Canada, US) A device used to broil food; part of an oven or a small stove; known as a grill in UK English.
3. A chicken suitable for broiling.
4. (archaic) One who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels.
   • 1649, Henry Hammond, The Pastor's Motto

     What doth he but turn broiler, […] make new libels against the church?

Derived terms

• broilerhouse

Descendants

• ? Latgalian: broilers

Translations

Anagrams

• 'orrible