Word Meanings - GRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Serving to gratify; agreeable. Sir T. Herbert.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GRATE)

• Scrape Grate
• abrade
• confricate
• rasp
• scratch
• mark
• groove

Related words: (words related to GRATE)

• SCRATCH COAT
  The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.
• SCRATCHBACK
  A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
• SCRATCHING
  With the action of scratching.
• GRATED
  Furnished with a grate or grating; as, grated windows.
• SCRATCHWEED
  Cleavers.
• GRATE
  Serving to gratify; agreeable. Sir T. Herbert.
• GRATER
  One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.
• SCRATCHER
  One who, or that which, scratches; specifically , any rasorial bird.
• GRATEFUL
  1. Having a due sense of benefits received; kindly disposed toward one from whom a favor has been received; willing to acknowledge and repay, or give thanks for, benefits; as, a grateful heart. A grateful mind By owing, owes not, but still pays.
• SCRATCH
  cf. OHG. chrazz, G. kratzen, OD. kratsen, kretsen, D. krassen, Sw. kratsa to scrape, kratta to rake, to scratch, Dan. kradse to scratch, 1. To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly
• ABRADE
  To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks. Lyell.
• GROOVER
  1. One who or that which grooves. 2. A miner. Holloway.
• SCRATCHY
  Characterized by scratches.
• SCRATCH PLAYER; SCRATCH RUNNER
  One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.
• SCRAPE
  1. To rub over the surface of with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface; to grate harshly over; to abrade; to make even, or bring to a required condition or form, by moving
• SCRATCHBRUSH
  A stiff wire brush for cleaning iron castings and other metal.
• SCRAPER
  1. An instrument with which anything is scraped. Specifically: An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it. An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, used for scraping up earth in making or
• SCRAPEPENNY
  One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.
• GROOVE
  A shaft or excavation. (more info) 1. A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut. 2. Hence: The habitual course
• SCRATCHWORK
  See COAT
• BESCRATCH
  To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
• INGRATEFUL
  1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness,
• REGRATE
  To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance. 2. To offend; to shock. Derham.
• INTEGRATE
  To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of. (more info) 1. To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect. "That conquest rounded and integrated the glorious empire." De Quincey. Two
• REINTEGRATE
  To renew with regard to any state or quality; to restore; to bring again together into a whole, as the parts off anything; to reas, to reintegrate a nation. Bacon.
• REMIGRATE
  To migrate again; to go back; to return. Boyle.
• UNGRATE
  Displeasing; ungrateful; ingrate. Jer. Taylor.
• IMMIGRATE
  To come into a country of which one is not a native, for the purpose of permanent residence. See Emigrate.
• MIGRATE
  Etym: 1. To remove from one country or region to another, with a view to residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as, the Moors who migrated from Africa into Spain; to migrate to the West. 2. To pass periodically from one region
• COMMIGRATE
  To migrate together.
• PERAGRATE
  To travel over or through.
• AGGRATE
  To please. Each one sought his lady to aggrate. Spenser.
• INGRATE
  Ingrateful. Bacon.