Usually means: Structure with parallel or crossed bars.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. grating: Merriam-Webster
  2. grating, grating: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grating: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grating: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grating: Vocabulary.com
  6. Grating, grating: Wordnik
  7. grating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. grating: Wiktionary
  9. grating: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. grating: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. grating: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. grating: Dictionary.com
  13. grating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Grating: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Grating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. grating: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. grating: Rhymezone
  18. Grating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. grating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. grating: FreeDictionary.org
  21. grating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. grating: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. grating: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. grating: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grating: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. grating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. grating: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grating: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Grating: Extragalactic Astronomy
  2. Grating: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. JPL Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See grate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (typically of a voice) Harsh and unpleasant.
adjective:  Abrasive; tending to annoy.
noun:  A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
noun:  A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
noun:  The loose material that comes from something being grated.
noun:  An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
noun:  (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.
noun:  The sound made by something that grates against something else.

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