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adjective ˈɡreɪtɪŋˈɡreɪdɪŋ 1Sounding harsh and unpleasant. Example sentencesExamples - Would the recording be of a metallic grating voice?
- She slammed her hand onto a switch and the blast doors began to close with loud bangs and grating noises.
- The shadowy figure spit each word out in its grating voice.
- The hideous, grating noise lasted for only a few seconds, and then the blessed silence of the forest poured back in.
- Her mother's grating voice echoed through her mind.
- There was a harsh, tinny grating sound, echoing into his ears, as the sphere ground against the wall.
- The song is highly varied - musical passages are freely interspersed with harsh grating ones.
- Then he laughed a harsh, grating laugh Kaitlin had never heard.
- After a few seconds, a harsh grating voice came out of the speakers above the door.
- Damien laughed and demonstrated his grating growl of a voice.
- She'd stepped on a small stone disk and it had sunk into the ground with a grating noise.
- With a harsh grating sound, the lid slid off, exposing its contents: a small black metal box, the size of a briefcase.
- ‘It's nothing I can't handle,’ she croaked feebly and Randy chuckled at the grating sound her voice made.
- This grating noise can be very disconcerting and is one of the biggest reasons, besides pain, that members present for treatment.
- Doc laughed at that as well, an unpleasant grating sound like someone scraping down deep for something no longer there.
- Precious heard a grating noise and then silence.
- The message of this is don't ignore nasty grating noises in the lungs for weeks, in the hope they'll get better!
- The man had rambled at her too, in a gravely, grating voice, explaining who he was and where he was taking her.
- I have never been much of a music person, preferring instead the sound of my own thoughts and the environmental sounds to the too-often grating noise that exudes from the radio or other music medium.
- The rough grating voices tore through the darkness and pierced his ears.
Synonyms scraping, scratching, grinding, rasping, creaking, jarring, abrasive harsh, raucous, strident, piercing, shrill, ear-piercing, screeching, squawking, squawky, squeaky, sharp discordant, dissonant, cacophonous brassy, blaring hoarse, croaky, rough, gravelly - 1.1 Irritating.
the continual praise of the good old days can become grating Example sentencesExamples - There are no surprises and the maniacally manipulative musical score often gets downright grating.
- Why is that the most obnoxious, most annoying, the most grating and jarring is the most popular?
- When she finally started paying attention to the professor, he could see a look of vague irritation at the professor's sharp accent, which was a grating sound to anyone's ear.
- His grating voice, frameless spectacles, faded suits and short, stringy hair all broke with the conformist protest style.
- ‘Oh, please,’ she begged in that grating voice that she seemed to instinctively know really got on his nerves.
- I listened for as long as I could tolerate his inane features and grating voice, then turned off the television.
- However, there is a scene near the end which I found grating and unnecessary and just too sentimental.
- Ms. Lynch's grating voice called out as I entered the room.
- She bristled at the familiar grating voice behind her.
- It's a little grating after awhile, to be honest.
- Trust me, after three or four songs of this nature, it tends to get a little grating on the old nerves.
- But the voice of the lead singer gets very grating.
- It's also grating, because at the international level, where big business makes the big money and wields enormous power, Howard is a fan of international agreements to grease big business wheels.
- When she spoke, her voice was back to its regular grating tone.
- But then she spoke again, in this pleading, grating voice that rubbed his nerve endings raw.
- Not only does he have a grating voice, but he merely describes what is going on on-screen when not singing his own praises.
- It was an annoying, grating tweet designed specifically to get on the nerves of someone trying to stay asleep.
- It was particularly refreshing when compared with the slightly grating staccato voice he used to read his poetry.
- She cleared her throat and spoke in that grating voice again.
- Thus, as you watched, and however grim the revelations, it was as if a grating background noise which had annoyed you for decades had simply ceased without your having noticed it.
Synonyms irritating, annoying, infuriating, rankling, vexatious, irksome, galling, exasperating, maddening, displeasing jarring, discordant, inharmonious, out of place, unsuitable, inappropriate, ill suited tiresome, troublesome, niggling, disagreeable, unpleasant, offensive informal aggravating
Derivatives adverb The worldliness of her books can be gratingly self-conscious at times, but it's never snotty. Example sentencesExamples - She never seems to notice if she's interrupting and is always gratingly yappy.
- An overly facile change of heart here, an incongruous turn in the plot there - it's just enough to make us gratingly aware that the filmmakers ran out of patience or ingenuity.
- The ending, for example, is far-fetched and gratingly sensational.
- Secondly and most gratingly, the immediate acknowledging of possible objectionability after you have done or said something potentially offensive does not actually neutralise your action.
Rhymes plating, rating, slating, uprating, weighting noun ˈɡreɪtɪŋˈɡreɪdɪŋ 1A framework of parallel or crossed bars, typically preventing access through an opening while permitting communication or ventilation. Example sentencesExamples - Her fingers trace the opening, only to find the gaps between the gratings too narrow for her hand to fit through.
- Suddenly, something thudded against the grating that covered the opening.
- Toilet cubicles will need to be more spacious than usual, and gratings fitted to the floors to prevent accidental flooding.
- Gutters overflow, the gratings of the drains heave.
- The system is designed with gratings to allow drainage into the channel, while carrying various loads.
- Iron gratings will be fitted at intake points of storm water drains to prevent blocking from solid waste.
- Some were trying to lift gratings and grids in an attempt to enter the sewers whilst a few attempted to break down the doors leading into the Black Tower.
- The council also said the narrowness of the slots in the drain gratings, which had been designed for pedestrian safety, were vulnerable to blocking by litter and debris.
- None of the other gratings have been found to have this problem.
- Aluminum is used in hulls, deckhouses, and hatch covers of commercial ships, as well as in equipment items, such as ladders, railings, gratings, windows, and doors.
- A mound of cardboard shivered near a wall, and we saw it was a homeless man, huddled above a grating for warmth, ripped cartons his only blanket.
- In the middle of this section there was a mysterious grating - a storm drain or possibly even a sewer, I now understand.
- He would soon have realised that the cleaner he kept the yard the less likely the gratings would become blocked and therefore the easier it would be to keep the drains running free.
- A welded grating prevents anyone from straying deeper into the adjoining caves.
- The 56-year-old claims nothing has been done to sort it since gratings were stolen from two of the drains four months ago.
Synonyms framework, grid, grate, network, grille, grillwork, lattice, trellis, criss-cross, matrix mesh, gauze, netting, net, web, webbing, tracery, interlacing, reticulation, reticulum technical plexus, graticule, decussation - 1.1Optics A set of equally spaced parallel wires, or a surface ruled with equally spaced parallel lines, used to produce spectra by diffraction.
Example sentencesExamples - The gratings diffract lights to the desired port.
- Seminal work on the diffraction grating was done by Joseph von Fraunhofer beginning in 1821, who demonstrated that the gratings could produce spectra of unprecedented quality.
- The etched etalon filter used in our single mode design has broader spectral characteristics than the gratings used in a typical DFB laser, which makes it less effective at filtering off-peak wavelengths.
- In 1910, Max von Laue published an equation that can be used to calculate diffraction maxima observed from two-dimensional cross gratings.
- For narrow spectral bandwidth gratings, dimensional variations must be minimized or compensated, and the grating is apodized by both a.c. and d.c. variations in writing beams at a net constant power.
adjectiveˈɡrādiNGˈɡreɪdɪŋ 1Sounding harsh and unpleasant. Example sentencesExamples - Her mother's grating voice echoed through her mind.
- I have never been much of a music person, preferring instead the sound of my own thoughts and the environmental sounds to the too-often grating noise that exudes from the radio or other music medium.
- After a few seconds, a harsh grating voice came out of the speakers above the door.
- The man had rambled at her too, in a gravely, grating voice, explaining who he was and where he was taking her.
- She slammed her hand onto a switch and the blast doors began to close with loud bangs and grating noises.
- The rough grating voices tore through the darkness and pierced his ears.
- Precious heard a grating noise and then silence.
- With a harsh grating sound, the lid slid off, exposing its contents: a small black metal box, the size of a briefcase.
- This grating noise can be very disconcerting and is one of the biggest reasons, besides pain, that members present for treatment.
- The song is highly varied - musical passages are freely interspersed with harsh grating ones.
- Damien laughed and demonstrated his grating growl of a voice.
- Doc laughed at that as well, an unpleasant grating sound like someone scraping down deep for something no longer there.
- Then he laughed a harsh, grating laugh Kaitlin had never heard.
- The hideous, grating noise lasted for only a few seconds, and then the blessed silence of the forest poured back in.
- There was a harsh, tinny grating sound, echoing into his ears, as the sphere ground against the wall.
- She'd stepped on a small stone disk and it had sunk into the ground with a grating noise.
- The message of this is don't ignore nasty grating noises in the lungs for weeks, in the hope they'll get better!
- ‘It's nothing I can't handle,’ she croaked feebly and Randy chuckled at the grating sound her voice made.
- The shadowy figure spit each word out in its grating voice.
- Would the recording be of a metallic grating voice?
Synonyms scraping, scratching, grinding, rasping, creaking, jarring, abrasive harsh, raucous, strident, piercing, shrill, ear-piercing, screeching, squawking, squawky, squeaky, sharp - 1.1 Irritating.
a smarty-pants tone that I found grating Example sentencesExamples - But the voice of the lead singer gets very grating.
- It's a little grating after awhile, to be honest.
- Why is that the most obnoxious, most annoying, the most grating and jarring is the most popular?
- I listened for as long as I could tolerate his inane features and grating voice, then turned off the television.
- She cleared her throat and spoke in that grating voice again.
- But then she spoke again, in this pleading, grating voice that rubbed his nerve endings raw.
- ‘Oh, please,’ she begged in that grating voice that she seemed to instinctively know really got on his nerves.
- When she finally started paying attention to the professor, he could see a look of vague irritation at the professor's sharp accent, which was a grating sound to anyone's ear.
- Trust me, after three or four songs of this nature, it tends to get a little grating on the old nerves.
- Ms. Lynch's grating voice called out as I entered the room.
- It was particularly refreshing when compared with the slightly grating staccato voice he used to read his poetry.
- Thus, as you watched, and however grim the revelations, it was as if a grating background noise which had annoyed you for decades had simply ceased without your having noticed it.
- However, there is a scene near the end which I found grating and unnecessary and just too sentimental.
- When she spoke, her voice was back to its regular grating tone.
- There are no surprises and the maniacally manipulative musical score often gets downright grating.
- Not only does he have a grating voice, but he merely describes what is going on on-screen when not singing his own praises.
- She bristled at the familiar grating voice behind her.
- It's also grating, because at the international level, where big business makes the big money and wields enormous power, Howard is a fan of international agreements to grease big business wheels.
- His grating voice, frameless spectacles, faded suits and short, stringy hair all broke with the conformist protest style.
- It was an annoying, grating tweet designed specifically to get on the nerves of someone trying to stay asleep.
Synonyms irritating, annoying, infuriating, rankling, vexatious, irksome, galling, exasperating, maddening, displeasing
nounˈɡrādiNGˈɡreɪdɪŋ 1A framework of parallel or crossed bars, typically preventing access through an opening while permitting communication or ventilation. Example sentencesExamples - A welded grating prevents anyone from straying deeper into the adjoining caves.
- Aluminum is used in hulls, deckhouses, and hatch covers of commercial ships, as well as in equipment items, such as ladders, railings, gratings, windows, and doors.
- Some were trying to lift gratings and grids in an attempt to enter the sewers whilst a few attempted to break down the doors leading into the Black Tower.
- In the middle of this section there was a mysterious grating - a storm drain or possibly even a sewer, I now understand.
- Gutters overflow, the gratings of the drains heave.
- Her fingers trace the opening, only to find the gaps between the gratings too narrow for her hand to fit through.
- A mound of cardboard shivered near a wall, and we saw it was a homeless man, huddled above a grating for warmth, ripped cartons his only blanket.
- The council also said the narrowness of the slots in the drain gratings, which had been designed for pedestrian safety, were vulnerable to blocking by litter and debris.
- Suddenly, something thudded against the grating that covered the opening.
- The system is designed with gratings to allow drainage into the channel, while carrying various loads.
- He would soon have realised that the cleaner he kept the yard the less likely the gratings would become blocked and therefore the easier it would be to keep the drains running free.
- The 56-year-old claims nothing has been done to sort it since gratings were stolen from two of the drains four months ago.
- None of the other gratings have been found to have this problem.
- Toilet cubicles will need to be more spacious than usual, and gratings fitted to the floors to prevent accidental flooding.
- Iron gratings will be fitted at intake points of storm water drains to prevent blocking from solid waste.
Synonyms framework, grid, grate, network, grille, grillwork, lattice, trellis, criss-cross, matrix - 1.1Optics A set of equally spaced parallel wires, or a surface ruled with equally spaced parallel lines, used to produce spectra by diffraction.
Example sentencesExamples - The gratings diffract lights to the desired port.
- The etched etalon filter used in our single mode design has broader spectral characteristics than the gratings used in a typical DFB laser, which makes it less effective at filtering off-peak wavelengths.
- Seminal work on the diffraction grating was done by Joseph von Fraunhofer beginning in 1821, who demonstrated that the gratings could produce spectra of unprecedented quality.
- For narrow spectral bandwidth gratings, dimensional variations must be minimized or compensated, and the grating is apodized by both a.c. and d.c. variations in writing beams at a net constant power.
- In 1910, Max von Laue published an equation that can be used to calculate diffraction maxima observed from two-dimensional cross gratings.
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