grater
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- noun
- /ˈɡreɪtər/
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- Laboriously, I rubbed a hunk of Parmesan against the smallest holes of my clunky metal grater.
- cheese grater
- box grater
- nutmeg grater
All right, we've got a grater, a little cheese grater, and they are great.
- All right, we've got a grater, a little cheese grater, and they are great.
- This is not a replacement for your old cheese grater.
- The doors were studied just like a cheese grater.
- I still think that would be super cute, like a tiny little cheese grater on wheels.
- So now I have a gold whisk and then this is like a cheese grater.
- So I mean, this is kind of like somebody who has a grater, has some knives, but just wants more plastic waste.
- But it turns out Cheese Bro might not escape the cheese grater of justice cause CNN found out the Cheese Bro had a secret Twitter account.
Examples
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To add flavor to the soup, finely shred carrots with a grater.
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And do you have a cheese grater that you could bring up?
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It's right next to the cheese grater.
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You see, yesterday I lost my peeler, and today my grater is missing.
Fiction book (2002) -
I chill it and run it through a cheese grater before I cut it into the flour.
Blog text (15) -
Using the large holes of a box grater, grate the apple.
Blog text (14) -
I grated my potatoes with a large-hole grater and put them in a mesh colander.
Blog text (19) -
There's our mushrooms and I've got the olive oil and some pepper and I also have my grater out for the Parmesan cheese.
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You can use a grater to shred cheese for the pasta dish.
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Make sure to use the box grater for the larger pieces of zucchini.
Synonyms
A kitchen tool with a rough surface used to grate cheese or lemon peel
How Fine
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Grater comes from the verb grate, which meant 'to scrape' or 'to rub'. A helpful image is rubbing cheese on a rough surface — a grater is simply the tool for 'scraping' food into small pieces.