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Meanings of grating in English

Russian
сварной настил
Portuguese
boca-de-lobo
Spanish
alcantarillado
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Famework of spaced bars that are parallel to or cross each other.

сварной настил
Portuguese
grade
Catalan
reixa

A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.

grade

Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.

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Optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum.

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Usage of grating in English
1
The oval contains an internal grating that drifts from right to left.
Wired
2
When the song finished, she crept to the grating and looked in.
The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California
3
Slidell looked so glum, I let the grating command pass without comment.
Bones Never Lie
4
The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off.
Les Misérables
5
Only the grating of Mr. Amherst's bits of china mars the stillness.
Molly Bawn
6
I moved towards her: I could feel the grating under my feet.
The End of the Affair
7
The cock crowed for the second time, but the grating still held.
The Forged Coupon, and Other Stories
8
He put his arm out through the grating and took the paper.
Sant' Ilario
9
He walked out on the planking to the bronze grating and turned.
The Runaway Skyscraper
10
He'd have to lift the grating, of course; that much was obvious.
But, I Don't Think
11
They could see through the little grating the shadow of his hood.
Cinq Mars — Volume 5
12
At that moment heart-rending cries came from the direction of the grating.
The Awakening / (The Resurrection)
13
The same hard type for grating, named after its origin in Lombardy.
The Complete Book of Cheese
14
These methods are applicable to a broad class of diffractive grating structures.
Pubmed
15
The grinding of stone announced the jackal's maw grating open once more.
Return of the Crimson Guard
16
One can see into the school through a grating from the road.
Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
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Translations for grating
Catalan
reixa
Grating through the time
Grating across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common