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Definition: Grater |
GraterNoun1. Utensil with sharp perforations for shredding foods (as vegetables or cheese). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "grater" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
Note: Grater \Grat"er\, adjective. [From Qrate, verb.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A laborer who replaces grates on conveyors after roasted lead ore has been dumped into cars, using hooks. Lead ore is loaded on grates and conveyed through a furnace in which the sulfur is driven off by roasting prior to the ore being melted to separate and recover the lead in another furnace. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pulverulence | Mill, arrastra, gristmill, grater, rasp, file, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, teeth, grinder, grindstone, kern, quern, koniology. |
Roughness | Adjective: rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly,knotted; rugged, rugose, rugous; knurly; asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn; craggy, cragged; crankling, scraggy; prickly; (sharp); arborescent; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous; laciniate, laciniform, laciniose; pappose; pileous, pilose; trichogenous, trichoid; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose, crinite; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed; setous, setose, setaceous; "like quills upon the fretful porcupine"; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Grater |
| English words defined with "grater": -er. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "grater": GRATED-CHEESE MAKER, grating-machine operator. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Consumer Goods |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| "Cheese grater" by Emma Payne Commentary: "Cheese grater." | "Grater 1" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "Well there's nothing much to say it's just a cheese grater....the irony of this object is that I'm allergic to dairy products so I use it not for cheese but for grating carrots." |
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| "Grater" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Grater" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 23 | 72,767 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "grater" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Grater | Last name | 130 | 56,959 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "grater": cheese grater ♦ nutmeg grater ♦ rough as a nutmeg grater. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "grater": cheese-grater. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
grater | 62 |
cheese grater | 50 |
microplane grater | 23 |
electric cheese grater | 15 |
corn grater | 9 |
coconut grater | 9 |
nutmeg grater | 7 |
mouli grater | 4 |
data grater | 3 |
grater potato | 3 |
rotary cheese grater | 2 |
food grater | 2 |
cheese grater rotary stainless steel | 2 |
microplane grater zester | 2 |
grater moto | 2 |
rotary grater | 2 |
ginger grater | 2 |
hand grater | 2 |
coconut electric grater | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "grater"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rende (rasp). (various references) | |
Arabic | المبشرة أداة لتبشير. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стъргало (prom), ренде. (various references) | |
Chinese | 磨丝器. (various references) | |
Czech | struhadlo (parer). (various references) | |
Danish | grovfil (rasp), rasp (buffer, rasp). (various references) | |
Dutch | raspvijl (rasp). (various references) | |
Farsi | پنجره اهنی , شبکه اهنی . (various references) | |
Finnish | riivinrauta, raastinrauta, raastin (rasp), raaste. (various references) | |
French | râpe. (various references) | |
German | reibeisen (rasp, shrew), raspel (rasp). (various references) | |
Greek | ξύστρο (rasp). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משוף (file, rasp), מגרד (abrasor, curette, itchy, scraper), פומפיה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | reszelő (file, rasp, shredder). (various references) | |
Indonesian | parut (rasp, scar, scratch). (various references) | |
Italian | grattugia. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 卸し金 , 下し金 , 下ろし金 , 下ろし (grated radish, grating). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おろしがね, おろし (grated radish, grating, wholesale, wind blowing down from mountains). (various references) | |
Korean | 강판. (various references) | |
Manx | scribider. (various references) | |
Norwegian | rivjern. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atergray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | grosa (file, gross, rasp), ralador. (various references) | |
Romanian | rãzãtoare (rasp). (various references) | |
Russian | терка (float, rasp). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | trenica (rasp), rende (plane). (various references) | |
Spanish | rallador (rasper). (various references) | |
Swedish | rivjärn. (various references) | |
Turkish | rende (plane, shave, shredder). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рашпіль (broiler, rasp), тертушка (rasp, shredder). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cái giũa, bàn xát, bàn mài cái nạo. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "grater": graters. (additional references) | |
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"Grater" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: erater, gadter, gamter, gartar, garte, Garther, gartier, gartner, gartter, gater, gatur, Geater, Gerster, glater, goateer, Goater, graber, gracer, Graetzer, gramer, graser, graten, grather, grati, gratia, gratir, gratix, gratta, gratte, Grattet, Gratzel, Gratzer, greatr, grette, grier, gritter, groter, grte, Gruter, grutte, Gruyter, Gualter, guater, Rgdata. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "grater" (pronounced grā"ter) |
| 5 | g r ā" t er | greater. |
| 4 | -r ā" t er | crater, curator, Frater, freighter, Prater, rater, straighter, traitor. |
| 3 | -ā" t er | cater, creator, debater, deflator, dictator, equator, gaiter, gator, hater, inflator, later, Pater, Plater, skater, Slater, stater, translator, Viator, vindicator, waiter. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: garret, garter. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: grate, great, rater, retag, targe, tarre, terga, terra. | |
-2 letters: ager, gate, gear, geta, grat, rage, rare, rate, rear, tare, tear. | |
-3 letters: age, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, erg, err, eta, gae, gar, gat, get, rag, rat, reg, ret, tae, tag, tar, tea, teg. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, ar, at, er, et, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: garrets, garrote, garters, grafter, granter, graters, greater, regraft, regrant, regrate. | |
+2 letters: arrogate, dragster, garotter, garroted, garroter, garrotes, garrotte, gartered, gatherer, grafters, granters, irrigate, regather, regrafts, regrants, regrated, regrates, retarget, stranger. | |
+3 letters: arbitrage, arresting, arrogated, arrogates, bartering, cartridge, corrugate, cratering, dragsters, estranger, forgather, garniture, garotters, garroters, garrotted, garrottes, gartering, gatherers, generator, geriatric, irrigated, irrigates, margarite, mortgager, partridge, porterage, prorogate, recrating, regardant, regathers, registrar, regrafted, regranted, regrating, regulator, reportage, retarding, retargets, retearing, retracing, serrating, staggerer, stargazer, straggler, strangers, strangler, surrogate, terracing. | |
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