grate

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You take wood, you put it on a grate, you light it, and you get heat.

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a frame of iron bars to hold a fire

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noun

a frame of iron bars to hold a fire

noun

a harsh rasping sound made by scraping something

noun

a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for grate.

noun

a frame of iron bars to hold a fire

noun

a harsh rasping sound made by scraping something

noun

a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air

verb

furnish with a grate; "a grated fireplace"

verb

gnaw into; make resentful or angry; "The injustice rankled her"; "his resentment festered"

verb

reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface; "grate carrots and onions"; "grate nutmeg"

verb

make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger"

verb

scratch repeatedly; "The cat scraped at the armchair"

Example sentences

You take wood, you put it on a grate, you light it, and you get heat.

Him spell chucker work grate, need gramma chicken.

What I don't know, is how best to integrate a new hire if they are genuinely remote, as in will visit rarely.

For example, a French-speaking person might say "rape the cheese" because "rape" is how you say "grate" in French, and they've forgotten that it's a false friend.

I daresay you could engineer a drainage grate or something beneath the sign jets to minimise the problem.

After playing Half Life 2 for the first time, I had a powerful urge to duck into every service tunnel and lose access grate I saw.

I find that American style ad's have an underlining fakeness to them, its hard to put my finger on it. I'm assuming its just a cultural difference being from New Zealand but some ad's from the States just grate me the wrong way.

Not specific to your project, more of an issue at large, but saying that '100% of people who contributed figured out how to contribute' isn't a grate benchmark for success.

But this immature attitude towards everything from technology stacks to how to run a company is really starting to grate.

This kind of nonsensical ravings really grate me. Don't write something like 'witness the increasingly dark economic backdrop' or 'America’s economy is still limping along' without some hard numbers.

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There's so much work that just requires pottering about your own home or garden or even playing with the kids, to get to sit with the creative part of one's mind, that I think the mega cute offices of the Google's of this world still miss the point, almost grate even with the conflicting signals of it all.