different between squeak vs grate
squeak
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skwi?k/
- Rhymes: -i?k
Noun
squeak (plural squeaks)
- A short, high-pitched sound, as of two objects rubbing together, or the calls of small animals.
- (games) A card game similar to group solitaire.
- (slang) A narrow squeak.
- 1905, E. W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night
- "I had the very devil of a squeak for it," he went on. "I did the hurdles over two or three garden-walls, but so did the flyer who was on my tracks, and he drove me back into the straight and down to High Street like any lamplighter. […]
- 1905, E. W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night
Translations
Verb
squeak (third-person singular simple present squeaks, present participle squeaking, simple past and past participle squeaked)
- (intransitive) To emit a short, high-pitched sound.
- (intransitive, slang) To inform, to squeal.
- If he be obstinate, put a civil question to him upon the rack, and he squeaks, I warrant him.
- (transitive) To speak or sound in a high-pitched manner.
- (intransitive, games) To empty the pile of 13 cards a player deals to oneself in the card game of the same name.
- (intransitive, informal) To win or progress by a narrow margin.
- 1999, Surfer (volume 40, issues 7-12)
- […] allowing Parkinson to squeak into the final by a half-point margin.
- 1999, Surfer (volume 40, issues 7-12)
Synonyms
- (to inform): drop a dime, grass up, snitch; See also Thesaurus:rat out
Derived terms
- bubble and squeak
- squeakish
- squeaky
- squeak by
- squeak through
Translations
Anagrams
- quakes
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grate
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: gr?t, IPA(key): /??e?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
- Homophone: great
Etymology 1
From Middle English grate, from a Medieval Latin gr?ta, from a Latin word for a hurdle; or Italian grata, from Latin cratis.
Noun
grate (plural grates)
- a horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot
- a frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning
Synonyms
- grill
Translations
Verb
grate (third-person singular simple present grates, present participle grating, simple past and past participle grated)
- (transitive) to furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars
Etymology 2
From Middle English graten, from Old French grater (“to scrape”) ( > French gratter), from Frankish *kratt?n, from Proto-Germanic *kratt?n?. Cognate with Old High German krazzon ( > German kratzen (“to scrawl”) > Danish kradse), Icelandic krassa (“to scrawl”) and Danish kratte.
Verb
grate (third-person singular simple present grates, present participle grating, simple past and past participle grated)
- (transitive, cooking) to shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater
- (intransitive) to make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something
- 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part 3 Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- The gate suddenly grated. It was Lestiboudois; he came to fetch his spade, that he had forgotten. He recognised Justin climbing over the wall, and at last knew who was the culprit who stole his potatoes.
- 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part 3 Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- (by extension, intransitive) to get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy
- (by extension, transitive) to annoy
- 2015, Art Levy in Florida Trend, Roland Martin is a Florida 'Icon'
- one of the issues that's kind of grating me a little bit is weed control.
- 2015, Art Levy in Florida Trend, Roland Martin is a Florida 'Icon'
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
From Latin gr?tus (“agreeable”).
Adjective
grate (comparative more grate, superlative most grate)
- (obsolete) serving to gratify; agreeable.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir T. Herbert to this entry?)
Etymology 4
Adjective
grate (comparative more grate, superlative most grate)
- Obsolete spelling of great
- c. 1815, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy Wise
- He promisd her a grate reward
- c. 1815, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy Wise
References
Anagrams
- 'Gater, Gater, Greta, ergat-, great, great-, retag, targe, terga
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??rate/
Adjective
grate f
- feminine plural of grato
Anagrams
- terga
Latin
Etymology
From gr?tus (“agreeable”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /??ra?.te?/, [??rä?t?e?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /??ra.te/, [??r??t??]
Adverb
gr?t? (comparative gr?tius, superlative gr?tissim?)
- gladly, willingly
- gratefully, thankfully
Related terms
References
- grate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- grate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English grot.
Noun
grate
- a groat
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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