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What is the noun for grates?

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grating
  1. A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
  2. A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
  3. The loose material that comes from something being grated.
  4. An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
  5. (plural) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “A welded grating prevents anyone from straying deeper into the adjoining caves.”
grate
  1. A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
  2. A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
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    1. “She was reassured that the heavy iron grate would prevent anyone from getting into the room.”
grater
  1. A tool with which one grates, especially cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It includes 14 tools, such as knives, spatulas, a grater, a can opener and a corkscrew.”
      “It's a Chef's Pal, it's a dicer, grater, peeler all in one, never needs sharpening and it's dishwasher safe.”
      “It looked like it was going to be one of those trips when we found everything but the grater I was looking for.”
gratings
  1. plural of grating
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Clearly a sauce had been made, and then bits of fish just chucked in with a few gratings of some worryingly unidentifiable vegetable.”
      “Still 8m off the 42m seabed, we finned over the deck gratings above the pressure hull.”
      “Multiple-grating turrets allow two or more gratings to be mounted on a turret and rotated into position when needed.”
graters
  1. plural of grater
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Zesters and box graters have small holes for this purpose, but a microplane grater makes the job easier.”
      “Her shelves are stacked with cookbooks and clippings, her drawers filled with gadgets and graters.”
      “Almost all the nutmeg graters in the Green Collection were made in England or America between the late seventeenth and early twentieth centuries.”
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