Difference between Grating and Grate

What is the difference between Grating and Grate?

Grating as a noun is a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air. while Grate as a noun is a horizontal metal grille through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.

Grating

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: (typically of a voice) harsh and unpleasant

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air. A frame of iron bars to hold a fire

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars

Grate

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A horizontal metal grille through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To shred things, usually foodstuffs, by rubbing across a grater.To rub against, such as grating one's teeth.To grate on one's nerves; to irritate or annoy.

We hope you now know whether to use Grating or Grate in your sentence.

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