Grate vs. Mash — What's the Difference?

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

A mixture of malt or other ingredients with water, heated to convert starches into fermentable sugars for use in brewing or distilling.

To cause to make a harsh grinding or rasping sound through friction

A mixture of ground grain and nutrients fed to livestock and fowl.

To irritate or annoy persistently

A soft pulpy mixture or mass.

(Archaic) To rub or wear away.

Chiefly British Mashed potatoes.

To make a harsh rasping sound

A crushing or grinding.

To cause irritation or annoyance

(Slang) An infatuation or act of flirtation.

To equip with a grate.

To convert (malt or grain) into mash.

A harsh rasping sound made by scraping or rubbing

To convert into a soft pulpy mass by pounding or crushing

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

Chiefly Southern & South Midland US To apply pressure to; press.

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

(Slang) To flirt with or make sexual advances to.

A fireplace.

(uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.

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

(brewing) Ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.

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

(mostly UK) Mashed potatoes.

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

A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.

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

(obsolete) A mess; trouble.

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

(obsolete) A mesh.

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

(obsolete) An infatuation, a crush, a fancy.

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

(obsolete) A dandy, a masher.

To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy.

(obsolete) The object of one’s affections regardless of sex.

To annoy.

A gun.

(obsolete) Serving to gratify; agreeable.

(transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure

Serving to gratify; agreeable.

(transitive) In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.

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.

(ambitransitive) To press down hard (on).

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

To press. en

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

To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).

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.

To act violently.

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

To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly.

To fret; to irritate; to offend.

To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.

To make a harsh sound by friction.

An abbreviation for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, consisting of the equipment and personnel required to perform emergency operations on injured soldiers, located in tents near the front lines of combat; as, he worked in the 25th MASH.

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.

A mesh.

A frame of iron bars to hold a fire

A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.

A harsh rasping sound made by scraping something

A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.

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

A mess; trouble.

Furnish with a grate;

To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle.

Gnaw into; make resentful or angry;

A mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing

Reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface;

Mixture of ground animal feeds

Make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together;

To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition;

Scratch repeatedly;

Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions;

Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading;