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Meanings of cheese grater in English

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A kitchen implement used to cut food products (such as cheese and carrots) into small strips.

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Examples for "grater"
Examples for "grater"
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Rinse and grate zucchini using the large holes on a hand-held grater.
97 orchard: an edible history of five immigrant families in one ...
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Mash yolks with a fork or finely chop with a hand grater.
Ebony
3
It's a grater, a darling grater for horseradish and nutmeg and cocoanut.
Americans All / Stories of American Life of To-Day
4
What looks like smooth, sloping rock feels more like a cheese grater.
Climbing Magazine
5
Goose flesh made Alexina's delicate body feel like a cold nutmeg grater.
The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time
1
Listen, it's night after night this week, my old cheesegrater, right on your patch.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
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The building is shaped like a cheesegrater.
Reuters
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Gold-colored and consisting of 8,000 holes, one for each of the torchbearers, the triangular-shaped aluminum torch has been likened to a huge cheesegrater.
Reuters
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Gold-coloured and consisting of 8,000 holes, one for each of the torchbearers, the triangular-shaped aluminium torch has been likened to a huge cheesegrater.
Reuters
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The Cheesegrater is one of London's tallest commercial towers and has a distinctive tapering shape.
Reuters
Usage of cheese grater in English
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What looks like smooth, sloping rock feels more like a cheese grater.
Climbing Magazine
2
My best boots; hidden from the parrot... And a cheese grater.
Venus In Copper
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What I need, I think, is a cheese grater and the pocket radio.
Operation Terror
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It's like having a cheese grater shoved against my gums, just saying it.
Turn coat
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And there should be a cheese grater in the house.
Operation Terror
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Then Lockley looked down at the cheese grater-pocket radio device of his own manufacture.
Operation Terror
7
This razor-sharp limestone could easily double as a cheese grater.
Climbing Magazine
8
This latest redesign is considerably less trash can and a little bit more cheese grater.
The South African
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One look at the cheese grater and Eve felt the same wallop of relief I did.
Dying for Dinner (A Cooking Class Mystery)
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He knew right where the cheese grater was.
Droozle
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There was a cheese grater on the worktop beside her and a square of cheese rind.
Corduroy mansions
12
Suddenly, you feel a grinding sensation in your knee, like a rock in a cheese grater.
Climbing Magazine
13
Why is it shaped like a cheese grater?
The Guardian
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On to the cheese grater for your mum and the mobile phone cover for your dad.
The Irish Times
15
Appearance: Like a cheese grater of course.
The Guardian
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Instead of a best of we put together Commercial Grates, with the cheese grater as our motif.
The South African