Definitions for grates

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grates grate

Spelling: [greyt]

IPA: /greɪt/

Grates is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 182 anagrams from letters in grates (aegrst).

Definitions for grates

noun

1. a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
2. a framework of parallel or crossed bars, used as a partition, guard, cover, or the like; grating.
3. a fireplace.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with a grate or grates.
2. to reduce to small particles by rubbing against a rough surface or a surface with many sharp-edged openings:
3. to rub together with a harsh, jarring sound:
4. to irritate or annoy.
5. Archaic. to wear down or away by rough friction.

verb (used without object)

1. to have an irritating or unpleasant effect:
2. to make a sound of, or as if of, rough scraping; rasp.
3. to sound harshly; jar:
4. to scrape or rub with rough or noisy friction, as one thing on or against another.

Origin of grates

1350-1400; Middle English Medieval Latin grāta a grating, variant of crāta, derivative of Latin crāt- (stem of crātis) wickerwork, hurdle; cf. crate

Examples for grates

It was kind of like when you walk over a grate and you can hear the subway barreling in.

Then weigh three quarters of a pound, and grate it into a dish.

I occasionally bring it right to the table so people can grate their own.

Preheat the grill to high heat and brush the grate with oil or spray with nonstick cooking spray.

Bake the pudding an hour, and grate nutmeg over it when done.

Just for starters, you can eat it alone with a glass of red wine, or can grate it over pasta or salads.

Mr Verloc mumbled, with his nose over the grate, and with marked unwillingness.

Here, take this seat,' and he moved a great chair close to the grate.

She glanced all round the parlour, from the corner cupboard to the good fire in the grate.

If you do not have a food processor, grate by hand on a box grater.