different between grating vs throaty

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

throat +? -y

Adjective

throaty (comparative throatier, superlative throatiest)

1. (of a sound) Produced in the throat; having a rough or coarse quality like a sound produced in the throat.
   • 1911, Pauline Johnson, Legends of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, “The Tulameen Trail,” p. 47,^[1]

     But the most haunting of all the melodies is the warbling laughter of the Tulameen; its delicate note is far more powerful, more far-reaching than the throaty thunders of the Niagara.

   • 1989, John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, Chapter 3, p. 129,^[2]

     We could hear a motor running; it seemed too deep and throaty a motor to be the squad car, and after we passed the high school, the engine noise grew louder.

   • 2012, Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world (in The Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2012),^[3]

     Since forming in 2007 Mumford & Sons have hard-toured their way to a vast market for throaty folk that's strong on banjo and bass drum. They have released two enormous albums. But, wow, do they take some knocks back home.

2. (of livestock or dogs) Having a dewlap or excess skin hanging under the neck.
   • 1789, Mr. Marshall, The Rural Economy of Glocestershire, London: G. Nicol, p. 248,^[4]

     Qualities exceptionable in a Herefordshire ox, for grazing. […] The neck short, thick, coarse; loaded with leather and dewlap; “throaty.”

   • 1849, “Col. Randall’s Merino Sheep,” American Agriculturalist, Volume 8, No. 4, April 1849, p. 120,^[5]

     […] his flock is not so throaty as Merinos were formerly bred, as he considers throatiness objectionable.

   • 1926, Warren Miller, The American Hunting Dog, New York: Appleton, Chapter , p. 31,^[6]

     In 1558 the beagle had become well patronised by royalty and was painted by court painters, so that we know his type to have been already well established, a small hound with long, drooping ears, short pudgy body and throaty neck.

Derived terms

• throatily
• throatiness

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