I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
grate cheese (= cut it into many small pieces using a special tool )
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Would you grate some cheese for me?
grated cheese (= that has been cut into many small pieces using a special tool )
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Cover the vegetables with the grated cheese.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
empty
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A pleated white paper fan perched in the empty grate below.
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Unable to afford coal, they sit and stare at an empty grate .
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There sat Mary, by the empty grate !
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And only their Maria would have thought of putting that big jug of orange flowers in the empty grate .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fresh-made/fresh-cut/fresh-grated etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The homeless slept on subway grates to keep warm.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A thousand people, mostly men, gathered around the grate one day last spring to witness a double execution.
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Even with the furnace on, he had the servants put coal in the grates of most of the rooms.
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Fires smouldered in the grates of sitting-rooms, but the passages and bedrooms at Kinton were apt to be piercingly cold.
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She took the two halves of the letter away, tore them in fragments, and burned them in her grate .
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The scrubbing was the nastiest, she thought despairingly, bad though blacking the grates, particularly the kitchen range, was.
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The windows were covered with iron grates.
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Those in front clambered up on to the grates that covered the entrance.
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Through the slate-floored living-room, with its exposed beams, open grate and massive heart-of-oak mantelpiece, was the kitchen.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
freshly
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The gravy calls for cream and freshly grated nutmeg.
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Let the soup warm through completely, then serve with a dusting of freshly grated nutmeg.
■ NOUN
cheese
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Blend with cream cheese and grated Cheddar to create a cheese spread.
teaspoon
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Pour on tomato sauce and sprinkle 1 teaspoon grated Parmesan cheese over top of each.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I always like to grate some cheese over the potatoes before serving them.
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The Parmesan cheese was freshly grated.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although their characters grate , the performances almost always please.
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Cool on a wire rack, then cut in two horizontally. 4 To make filling, finely grate orange.
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Drain well. 3 Peel and roughly grate the carrots.
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She started to grate the cheese.