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grating
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noun
(= grate)
a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
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adjective
(= gravelly)
unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
a gravelly voice
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noun
(= grate)
a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
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noun
(= diffraction grating)
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
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adjective
(= void)
lacking any legal or binding force
null and void
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noun
(= nothing, nil, goose egg, naught, zilch)
a quantity of no importance
it looked like nothing I had ever seen before
reduced to nil all the work we had done
we racked up a pathetic goose egg
it was all for naught
I didn't hear zilch about it