different between grating vs resistance

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.

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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

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Verb

grating

1. present participle of grate

English

Alternative forms

• resistaunce (obsolete)
• resistence (rare, see usage notes)

Etymology

From earlier resistence, from Middle English resistence, from Old French resistence, from Latin resistentia.

Morphologically resist +? -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z?st?ns/

Noun

resistance (countable and uncountable, plural resistances)

1. The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

   Synonym: opposition

2. (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
3. (physics) Electrical resistance.
4. An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.

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References

• resistance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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• ancestries, increasest, senatrices