Grate

What do we mean by grate?

To reduce to fragments, shreds, or powder by rubbing against an abrasive surface. intransitive verb

To cause to make a harsh grinding or rasping sound through friction. intransitive verb

To irritate or annoy persistently. intransitive verb

To rub or wear away. intransitive verb

To make a harsh rasping sound. intransitive verb

To cause irritation or annoyance. intransitive verb

A harsh rasping sound made by scraping or rubbing. noun

A framework of parallel or latticed bars for blocking an opening. noun

A framework of metal bars used to hold fuel or food in a stove, furnace, or fireplace. noun

A fireplace. noun

A perforated iron plate or screen for sieving and grading crushed ore. noun

To equip with a grate. transitive verb

A grater. noun

To furnish with a grate or grates; fill in with cross-bars: as, to grate a window.

Pleasant; agreeable.

A partition made with bars parallel to or crossing one another; a framework of bars in a door, window, hatchway, or other opening. noun

A frame of metal bars in which fuel is burned, especially coal. noun

The floor of a fire-box or furnace, formed of a series or group of bars; the bottom of a furnace, on which the fuel rests, and through which it is supplied with air. noun

In metallurgy: A perforated metal plate used in the stamping of ores, through which the pounded ore passes. noun

A screen. noun

A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot

A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning

Words that are spelled similarly to grate:
grate, rate, grace, gate, grave, grade, irate, graze, crate, grape, orate, prate, gyrate, grata, grat, wrate, urate, frate, grote, grame, grane, grete, grabe, grato, gratz, grawe, grae, trate, grats, graue, garate, guate, gratae, brate, girate, grte.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word grate:
firebox, grates, clinker, sanding, flue, boiler, heater, nutmeg, exchanger, heating, hearth, fireplace, stoker, anthracite, kiln, combustion, conveyor, fireman, charcoal, heated, psi, axle, furnace, stove, tubular, tubing, nerves, fed, chimney, locomotive, steam, skirt, ash, trailing, roadway, hopper, cheese, lbs, gases, downward, coupled, cylindrical, burning, burn, coal, shale, supplied, fuel, surface, cylinder, burnt, blown, tiles, waste, drain, firing, bars, smoke, combined, barrel, rectangular, fitted, wheels, burned, blast, loading, enclosed, flames, pipe, diameter, bottom, dome, rod, fountain, dress, cooking, load, frame, chamber, casting, jerry, gear, deck, tube, gauge, holes, bed, beneath, door, concrete, heat, killer, pressure, tons, floor, pan, particles, pit, foods, area.

Words that rhyme with grate:
state, rate, date, plate, advocate, appropriate, appreciate, mitigate, great, propagate, facilitate, accommodate, articulate, elaborate, vacillate, mandate, estate, conflate, weight, abrogate, anticipate, repudiate, emulate, intimate, ameliorate, separate, alleviate, predicate, innate, obviate, exacerbate, associate, deliberate, obfuscate, abate, mate, gate, disseminate, consummate, slate, indicate, emanate, create, elucidate, contemplate, adequate, trait, straight, resonate, delineate, initiate, incorporate, postulate, dedicate, estimate, integrate, assimilate, delegate, extrapolate, fate, reiterate, coordinate, precipitate, corroborate, collaborate, gait, manipulate, evaluate, desolate, late, designate, alternate, update, rait, collate, surrogate, abdicate, cultivate, procrastinate, freight, commiserate, consolidate, wait, moderate, arrogate, spate, relate, debate, demonstrate, deprecate, stipulate, inculcate, denigrate, celebrate, dissipate, graduate, exonerate, communicate, subordinate, negate.

Adjectives that are often used to describe grate:
open, empty, fire, small, hot, little, rusty, large, old, glowing, ordinary, fireless, cold, fashioned, upper, black, iron, lower, inclined, polished, wide, tiny, wooden, heavy, big, huge, key, horizontal, modern, circular, narrow, dry, revolving, stationary, entire, bottom, bright, movable, top, domestic, blazing, flat, coarsely, fixed, front, rusted, continuous, round, warm, outer, clean, rotating, mechanical, perforated, massive, portable, wiry, oiled, fired, plain, coarse, dusty, cheerless, rotary, dead, victorian, double, ample, shallow, shaped, enormous, closed, oldfashioned, dismal, rude.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective grate:
bars, surface, area, stoker, stokers, bar, fire, type, furnace, fires, pots, ful, feet, nutmeg, cheese, potatoes, areas, discharge, rind, producer, stove, blast, furnaces, kiln, firing, holmes, clashes, sugar, boilers, peel, openings, sound, efficiency, machine, testates, fun, producers, stoves, machines, bread, dust, dwellers, shaking, destructor, lemons, fireplace, humorist, excitement, riotism, hearth, tel, carrots, slots, pompe, incinerator, applaws, construction, holes, installation, bridge, passes, backs, onion, ounces, zucchini, shaker, boiler, frame.

Consonant match to grate:
great, grit, greet, grout, groat, groot, grote, grete, greit, great-.

Words that sound like grate:
great, grate, great-, grade, greet, grit, grat, grout, gret, groot, groat, grot, grayed, greyed, grote, grete, garotte, grott, grut, griet, greit, grotte, guerette, garoutte, guerrette, graat, crate, krait, grey, gate, gray, greed, greater, grid, grad, graze, greats, gait, grater, graced, grays, greys, girt, gurt, gert, grates, growed, grt, gride, graith, gradd, grod, grode, gerst, grei, graeae, gryde, gorod, -gate, gray's, irate, creat, crete, crit, cret, kraut, crat, irrate, carot, crite, cruet, caret, crout, krit, krout, krat, crut, kratt, crute, curette, croute, crot, carotte, kret, krut, krete, karite, -crat, krot, karotte, kurrat, egret, gade, aigrette, gaat, a grade, aggrate, aigret, -grave, aggrade.