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grating
grating is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Grate. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 10 senses
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- 1participial adjectivedjectiveectivest participial adjectivedjectiveectiverticipler & verbb noun
of Grate
- 2noun
A partition, covering, or frame of parallel or cross bars; a latticework resembling a window grate; as, the grating of a prison or convent.
- 3noun
A system of close equidistant and parallel lines lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction; -- called also diffraction grating.
- 4noun
The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable Lattice used for the flooring of boats.
- 5adjective
That grates; making a harsh sound; harsh.
- 6noun
A harsh sound caused by attrition.
- 7noun
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
- 8noun
a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
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- 9noun
a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
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- 10adjective
unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
"a gravelly voice"
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