grate

Word family noungrateradjectivegratinggratedadverbgratinglyverbgrate

Related topics: Furniture

grate1 /ɡreɪt/ noun [countableC] → great

DHFthe metal bars and frame that hold the wood, coal etc in a fireplace 〔壁炉的〕金属炉架 →4 See picture of 见图 FIREPLACE

Examples from the Corpus

grate• She took the two halves of the letter away, tore them in fragments, and burned them in her grate.• The windows were covered with iron grates.• Through the slate-floored living-room, with its exposed beams, open grate and massive heart-of-oak mantelpiece, was the kitchen.• The homeless slept on subway grates to keep warm.• A thousand people, mostly men, gathered around the grate one day last spring to witness a double execution.• The scrubbing was the nastiest, she thought despairingly, bad though blacking the grates, particularly the kitchen range, was.• Even with the furnace on, he had the servants put coal in the grates of most of the rooms.• Fires smouldered in the grates of sitting-rooms, but the passages and bedrooms at Kinton were apt to be piercingly cold.• Those in front clambered up on to the grates that covered the entrance.

词汇	grate
释义	grate Word family noungrateradjectivegratinggratedadverbgratinglyverbgrate Related topics: Furniture grate1 /ɡreɪt/ noun [countableC] → great DHFthe metal bars and frame that hold the wood, coal etc in a fireplace 〔壁炉的〕金属炉架 →4 See picture of 见图 FIREPLACE Examples from the Corpus grate• She took the two halves of the letter away, tore them in fragments, and burned them in her grate.• The windows were covered with iron grates.• Through the slate-floored living-room, with its exposed beams, open grate and massive heart-of-oak mantelpiece, was the kitchen.• The homeless slept on subway grates to keep warm.• A thousand people, mostly men, gathered around the grate one day last spring to witness a double execution.• The scrubbing was the nastiest, she thought despairingly, bad though blacking the grates, particularly the kitchen range, was.• Even with the furnace on, he had the servants put coal in the grates of most of the rooms.• Fires smouldered in the grates of sitting-rooms, but the passages and bedrooms at Kinton were apt to be piercingly cold.• Those in front clambered up on to the grates that covered the entrance. Related topics: Cooking grate2 verb 1 [transitiveT]DFC to rub cheese, vegetables etc against a rough or sharp surface in order to break them into small pieces 磨碎，擦碎〔干酪、水果等〕 grated cheese 磨碎的干酪 Peel and grate the potatoes. 把马铃薯削皮磨碎。 ► see thesaurus at cut 2 [transitiveT] written to talk in a low rough voice 粗声粗气地说话 → hiss ‘Let me go, ’ he grated harshly. “放我走。”他粗声粗气地说，口气很凶。 3 [intransitiveI]ANNOY to annoy someone 使人烦恼，使人难受 grate on Mr Fen had a loud voice that grated on her ears. 芬先生嗓门很大，直刺她的耳朵。 4 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]SOUND to make an unpleasant sound by rubbing, or to make something do this （使）发出刺耳的摩擦声 The stones beneath her shoes grated harshly. 石子在她鞋底下吱嘎作响，声音很刺耳。 Examples from the Corpus grate• The Parmesan cheese was freshly grated.• Cool on a wire rack, then cut in two horizontally. 4 To make filling, finely grate orange.• I always like to grate some cheese over the potatoes before serving them.• Drain well. 3 Peel and roughly grate the carrots.• She started to grate the cheese.• Although their characters grate, the performances almost always please. Origin grate1 (1300-1400) Medieval Latin crata, grata “something made of woven sticks”, from Latin cratis; → CRATE1 grate2 (1300-1400) Old French grater “to make marks in a surface”
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