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- noun Plural form of
grating .
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Examples
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Crowded against the gratings was a surging mass of humanity stretching its tentacles through the nearby streets.
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They, however, led Mr. Munro to proceed with compound wire structures, such as gratings resting upon or rubbing against one another, and one of the first experiments in this direction proved very successful, and led
Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 Various
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Not two or six but up to fifty or more of these individual wells showed their serried gratings in the half-light.
Perquampi Andrew Edwards 2011
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While he lay perdu in Steward's stateroom, his voice was the one thing that was not to be heard, so Kwaque was forced to seek the solace of his jews 'harp in the sweltering heat of the gratings over the fire-room.
CHAPTER V 2010
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Here and there above him, metal gratings formed small landings.
Fic: Like Gum on Your Shoe Part 3/10, Adult Eventually, AU from JE rabid1st 2009
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Instead, my Demonstration communicates my knowledge about diffraction gratings as an interactive space that you, as the reader, can explore with an infinite combination of multiple parameter values.
Wolfram Blog : 5,000 Demonstrations: The Time to Go Interactive Is Now 2009
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Special care must be made to keep the gratings from losing its flavor.
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And there, in that dark hole of man's inhumanity, from dungeon cell to dungeon cell, their mouths against the gratings, the twoscore lifers solemnly pledged themselves before God to tell the truth.
Chapter 3 2010
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Ricotta mixed with cooked and shredded spinach, grated parmesan and a few gratings of nutmeg.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's aubergine recipes Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 2010
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Kwaque was no longer compelled to enjoy his jews 'harp on the gratings over the fire-room, now that Michael's presence on the
CHAPTER VII 2010
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