different between grating vs guttural

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 Middle French guttural, from New Latin guttur?lis, from Latin guttur (“throat”) + -?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t???l/
  • (US) IPA^(key): [???????]
• Rhymes: -?t???l

Adjective

guttural (comparative more guttural, superlative most guttural)

1. Sounding harsh and throaty.
2. (phonetics) Articulated at the back of the mouth.
3. (medicine, anatomy) Of, relating to, or connected to the throat.

Translations

Noun

guttural (plural gutturals)

1. A harsh and throaty spoken sound

Translations

French

Etymology

From New Latin guttur?lis.

Adjective

guttural (feminine singular gutturale, masculine plural gutturaux, feminine plural gutturales)

1. guttural (of a consonant)
2. guttural (relating to the throat)

Further reading

• “guttural” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??tu??a?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

guttural (comparative gutturaler, superlative am gutturalsten)

1. guttural

Declension