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How to pronounce “grating”
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Pronunciation guide for grating
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of grating with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Latke Cook Off
to hold the onion together when you're going to be grating it.
- Definition summary
- (typically of a voice) Harsh and unpleasant.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce grating
Latke Cook Off
to hold the onion together when you're going to be grating it.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “grating”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- (typically of a voice) Harsh and unpleasant.
- Abrasive; tending to annoy.
- [Noun]
- A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
- A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
- The loose material that comes from something being grated.
- An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
- (nautical, in the plural) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
- The sound made by something that grates against something else.
- [Verb]
- present participle and gerund of grate
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