Carl Honore

Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.

Canadian Journalist

Bobby Flay

Everybody says, 'I have problems overcooking steak on the grill,' but just take it off earlier! Grilling is really common sense. It's very simple. You should think of a grill as a burner - it just happens to have grates. You shouldn't be intimidated by it.

American Chef

Timothy Olyphant

If you're at a restaurant and someone asks, 'Fresh pepper?,' the answer is yes. When people shake off the fresh pepper, they clearly have no interest in living a full life. Same thing goes for grated Parmesan. Why would you turn that down?

American Actor

Ronald Reagan

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

American President

John Carroll Lynch

My crazy fear is I'm always afraid my keys are going to fall down a subway grate when I walk over it. I'm afraid they're going to jump out of my pocket and fall down. Isn't that stupid?

Gordon Strachan

I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you.

Scottish Athlete

Joss Whedon

In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.

American Writer

Angelina Pivarnick

I found olive oil and grated cheese all over my bed. I picked up my comforter, and it was on my sheets, my pillow.

American Celebrity

Warren Zevon

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

American Musician

Ross Duffer

There's nothing worse or more grating than a bad child actor performance.

Grate is often used for preparing food, usually as a step in cooking recipes.

Kitchen Context

Grating creates a fine texture that's ideal for melting or mixing in dishes.

Fine Texture

A grater is the tool used; 'grate' involves physical effort and direct contact with the tool.

Manual Tool

When 'grate' describes a sound, it implies it's harsh and unpleasant to hear.

Irritating Sound

'Grate on' can describe things that are irritating or annoying, not just sound.

Annoyance

Used metaphorically, 'grate' can describe any action that irritates.

Metaphoric Use

A grate is a protective barrier, often over something like a drain or a fireplace.

Barrier or Cover

Grates allow air and water to pass through, serving a ventilation or filtering purpose.

Ventilation Feature

You'll often see grates in public places, like sidewalks and parks.

Common in Public

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 but they also serve as a buffer to protect inland communities. New York City is incredibly vulnerable to storms, as you can see from this clever sign, and to sea level rise, and to storm surge, as you can see from the subway flooding. But back above ground, these raised ventilation grates

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 is incredibly vulnerable to storms as you can see from this clever sign and to sea level rise and a storm surge as you can see from the subway flooding but back above ground these raised ventilation grates for the subway system show that solutions can be both

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 But to this day, I will never forget how hard it was having to say goodbye. And I will never forget how hard it was watching my little brother crumble in their arms as I waved goodbye from the other side of steel grates. Now, it would be naive to credit grit

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 or simply fried as a quick vegetarian dish. The Greeks produced bricks of salty brined feta cheese, alongside a harder variety similar to today’s pecorino romano. This grating cheese was produced in Sicily and used in dishes all across the Mediterranean.

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 have that ambition and that drive to do the thing you love to do ever since I was a little kid I really liked climbing used to climb everything from fly poles to before I could walk I used to climb baby grates and eventually he moved to

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 You’ve rigged up a remote that can lower the water level by ejecting it from grates in the sides of the room. If you can lower the water level to 0, you can hit the manual override, shut NIM off, and save the day.

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 DC's rodent control receives a couple of complaints each year have a retino toilet how does this ultimate rat invasion actually occur first it could easily sneak into grates or manhole covers open to the street

Grate

To rub something (like cheese or carrots) against a rough surface to make small pieces.

Often appears as...

To make a harsh, annoying sound by rubbing or scraping.

Often appears as...

A frame of parallel or crossed bars, used as a partition, guard, or cover.

Often appears as...

Kitchen Context

Fine Texture

Manual Tool

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