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Fence vs. Grate — What's the Difference?

Fence vs. Grate — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Fence and Grate

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Fence

A fence is a structure that encloses an area, typically outdoors, and is usually constructed from posts that are connected by boards, wire, rails or netting. A fence differs from a wall in not having a solid foundation along its whole length.Alternatives to fencing include a ditch (sometimes filled with water, forming a moat).

Grate

To reduce to fragments, shreds, or powder by rubbing against an abrasive surface.

Fence

A structure serving as an enclosure, a barrier, or a boundary, usually made of posts or stakes joined together by boards, wire, or rails.

Grate

To cause to make a harsh grinding or rasping sound through friction
Grated her teeth in anger.

Fence

An adjustable guide with a flat edge used on a table saw and positioned parallel to the plane of the cutting attachment in order to keep the board properly positioned for the cut to be made at the correct distance from the board's edge.
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Grate

To irritate or annoy persistently
It always grates me to get put on hold.

Fence

One who receives and sells stolen goods.

Grate

(Archaic) To rub or wear away.

Fence

A place where stolen goods are received and sold.

Grate

To make a harsh rasping sound
An old gate grating in the wind.

Fence

(Archaic) A means of defense; a protection.

Grate

To cause irritation or annoyance
A noise that grates on one's nerves.

Fence

To surround or enclose with a fence or other barrier.

Grate

To equip with a grate.

Fence

To separate or keep out by means of a fence or other barrier
Fenced off one field from another.
Fenced out the deer from the garden.

Grate

A harsh rasping sound made by scraping or rubbing
The grate of a key in a lock.

Fence

To sell (stolen goods) to a fence.

Grate

A framework of parallel or latticed bars for blocking an opening.

Fence

To ward off; keep away.

Grate

A framework of metal bars used to hold fuel or food in a stove, furnace, or fireplace.

Fence

To defend.

Grate

A fireplace.

Fence

To practice the art or sport of fencing.

Grate

A perforated iron plate or screen for sieving and grading crushed ore.

Fence

To avoid giving direct answers; hedge.

Grate

A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
The grate stopped the sheep from escaping from their field.

Fence

To act as a conduit for stolen goods.

Grate

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

Fence

A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.

Grate

(historical) A grapper, a metal ring on a lance behind the grip.

Fence

(informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.

Grate

(transitive) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.
To grate a window

Fence

(by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.

Grate

To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater.
I need to grate the cheese before the potato is cooked.

Fence

Skill in oral debate.

Grate

(intransitive) To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something.
Listening to his teeth grate all day long drives me mad.
The chalk grated against the board.

Fence

The art or practice of fencing.

Grate

To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy.
She’s nice enough, but she can begin to grate if there is no-one else to talk to.

Fence

A guard or guide on machinery.

Grate

To annoy.

Fence

(figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.

Grate

(obsolete) Serving to gratify; agreeable.

Fence

A memory barrier.

Grate

Serving to gratify; agreeable.

Fence

(transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.

Grate

A structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters.

Fence

(transitive) To defend or guard.

Grate

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

Fence

(transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.

Grate

To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars; as, to grate a window.

Fence

To engage in the sport of fencing.

Grate

To rub roughly or harshly, as one body against another, causing a harsh sound; as, to grate the teeth; to produce (a harsh sound) by rubbing.
On their hinges grateHarsh thunder.

Fence

To jump over a fence.

Grate

To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg.

Fence

(intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.

Grate

To fret; to irritate; to offend.
News, my good lord Rome . . . grates me.

Fence

That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield.
Let us be backed with God and with the seas,Which he hath given for fence impregnable.
A fence betwixt us and the victor's wrath.

Grate

To make a harsh sound by friction.
I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned,Or a dry wheel grate on the exletree.

Fence

An inclosure about a field or other space, or about any object; especially, an inclosing structure of wood, iron, or other material, intended to prevent intrusion from without or straying from within.
Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold.

Grate

To produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity.
This grated harder upon the hearts of men.

Fence

A projection on the bolt, which passes through the tumbler gates in locking and unlocking.

Grate

A frame of iron bars to hold a fire

Fence

Self-defense by the use of the sword; the art and practice of fencing and sword play; hence, skill in debate and repartee. See Fencing.
Enjoy your dear wit, and gay rhetoric,That hath so well been taught her dazzing fence.
Of dauntless courage and consummate skill in fence.

Grate

A harsh rasping sound made by scraping something

Fence

A receiver of stolen goods, or a place where they are received.

Grate

A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air

Fence

To fend off danger from; to give security to; to protect; to guard.
To fence my ear against thy sorceries.

Grate

Furnish with a grate;
A grated fireplace

Fence

To inclose with a fence or other protection; to secure by an inclosure.
O thou wall! . . . dive in the earth,And fence not Athens.
A sheepcote fenced about with olive trees.

Grate

Gnaw into; make resentful or angry;
The unjustice rankled her
His resentment festered

Fence

To make a defense; to guard one's self of anything, as against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a fence.
Vice is the more stubborn as well as the more dangerous evil, and therefore, in the first place, to be fenced against.

Grate

Reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface;
Grate carrots and onions
Grate nutmeg

Fence

To practice the art of attack and defense with the sword or with the foil, esp. with the smallsword, using the point only.
He will fence with his own shadow.

Grate

Make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together;
Grate one's teeth in anger

Fence

Hence, to fight or dispute in the manner of fencers, that is, by thrusting, guarding, parrying, etc.
They fence and push, and, pushing, loudly roar;Their dewlaps and their sides are bat ed in gore.
As when a billow, blown against,Falls back, the voice with which I fencedA little ceased, but recommenced.

Grate

Scratch repeatedly;
The cat scraped at the armchair

Fence

A barrier that serves to enclose an area

Fence

A dealer in stolen property

Fence

Enclose with a fence;
We fenced in our yard

Fence

Receive stolen goods

Fence

Fight with fencing swords

Fence

Surround with a wall in order to fortify

Fence

Have an argument about something

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