The difference between Grate and Scrape

When used as nouns, grate means a horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot, whereas scrape means a broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).

When used as verbs, grate means to furnish with grates, whereas scrape means to draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.

Grate is also adjective with the meaning: serving to gratify.

check bellow for the other definitions of Grate and Scrape

  1. Grate as a noun:

    A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.

    Examples:

    "The grate stopped the sheep from escaping from their field."

  2. Grate as a noun:

    A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.

  1. Grate as a verb (transitive):

    To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.

    Examples:

    "to grate a window"

  1. Grate as a verb (transitive, cooking):

    To shred things, usually foodstuffs, by rubbing across a grater.

    Examples:

    "I need to grate the cheese before the potato is cooked."

  2. Grate as a verb (intransitive):

    To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something.

    Examples:

    "Listening to his teeth grate all day long drives me mad."

    "The chalk grated against the board."

  3. Grate as a verb (by extension, intransitive):

    To grate on one's nerves; to irritate or annoy.

    Examples:

    "She’s nice enough, but she can begin to grate if there is no-one else to talk to."

  4. Grate as a verb (by extension, transitive, obsolete):

    To annoy.

  1. Grate as an adjective (obsolete):

    Serving to gratify; agreeable.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Sir T. Herbert"

  1. Grate as an adjective:

  1. Scrape as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.

    Examples:

    "Her fingernails scraped across the blackboard, making a shrill sound."

    "Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife."

  2. Scrape as a verb (transitive):

    To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.

    Examples:

    "She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee."

  3. Scrape as a verb (transitive):

    To barely manage to achieve.

    Examples:

    "I scraped a pass in the exam."

  4. Scrape as a verb (transitive):

    To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.

    Examples:

    "Just use whatever you can scrape together."

  5. Scrape as a verb (computing):

    To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.

  6. Scrape as a verb:

    To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.

    Examples:

    "He scraped and saved until he became rich."

  7. Scrape as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.

  8. Scrape as a verb:

    To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.

  9. Scrape as a verb:

    To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Macaulay"

  1. Scrape as a noun:

    A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).

    Examples:

    "He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee."

  2. Scrape as a noun:

    A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.

    Examples:

    "He got in a scrape with the school bully."

  3. Scrape as a noun:

    An awkward set of circumstances.

    Examples:

    "I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present."

  4. Scrape as a noun (British, slang):

    A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.

  5. Scrape as a noun:

    A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.

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