| grating |
| 1. adj. (typically of a voice) Harsh and unpleasant. | |
| 2. adj. Abrasive; tending to annoy. | |
| 3. n. A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air. | |
| 4. n. A frame of iron bars to hold a fire. | |
| 5. n. The loose material that comes from something being grated. | |
| Add a few gratings of nutmeg to the hot milk. | |
| 6. n. An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction. | |
| 7. n. (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. | |
| 8. v. present participle of grate | |
| grate |
| 1. n. A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot. | |
| The grate stopped the sheep from escaping from their field. | |
| 2. n. A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning. | |
| 3. v. To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars. | |
| to grate a window | |
| 4. v. (transitive, cooking) To shred things, usually foodstuffs, by rubbing across a grater. | |
| I need to grate the cheese before the potato is cooked. | |
| 5. v. (intransitive) To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something. | |
| Listening to his teeth grate all day long drives me mad. | |
| The chalk grated against the board. | |
| 6. v. (by extension, intransitive) To grate on one’s nerves; to irritate or annoy. | |
| She’s nice enough, but she can begin to grate if there is no-one else to talk to. | |
| 7. v. (by extension, transitive, obsolete) To annoy. | |
| 8. adj. (obsolete) Serving to gratify; agreeable. | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| obnoxious |
| 1. adj. Extremely unpleasant or offensive; very annoying, odious or contemptible. | |
| He was an especially obnoxious and detestable specimen of a man. | |
| Throwing stones at the bus is another example of your obnoxious behaviour. | |
| 2. adj. (preceded by "to feel") Ashamed; acutely aware of one's own offensive qualities. | |
| to feel obnoxious | |
| 3. adj. (archaic) exposed to harm or injury. | |
