different between grating vs cracked
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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cracked
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?ækt/
Adjective
cracked (comparative more cracked, superlative most cracked)
- Broken so that cracks appear on, or under, the surface.
- Synonym: crazed
- Broken into coarse pieces.
- (of a voice) Harsh or dissonant.
- Synonyms: discordant, dissonant, harsh, inharmonious, raspy, rough
- (slang) Crazy; crackpot.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:insane
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
cracked
- simple past tense and past participle of crack
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