These buyers often get their grates or manhole covers indirectly.
By combining many slits into a small grate, they create a red, green, or blue pixel (depending on the spacing of the slits) of a size only limited by the precision of their grate-cutting equipment.
During the re-configuration of their grate-kiln induration system for the firing of iron ore pellets at the Whyalla Steelworks, caused by a change from an earthy hematite to a magnetite ore with considerably less flux, OneSteel commissioned a detailed thermal flow analysis of the design options on the existing cooler in support of the process change.
Though Press clearly admires his characters, and wants readers to find them inspiring, he can see how their actions can create conflict and their personalities grate.
While the two Labs were terrified of the steep stairs and their claws grated on the tile floors, they bounded happily out onto the turf.
Business journalists have a habit of complaining to one another that corporate executives, and the people in their immediate orbit, make for painful interviews: executives admit little that hasn't been approved by a troop of lawyers and public-relations minders, they speak in business jargon, and their solicitousness grates.
If someone is a good therapist, but their personality grates you, it may be best to move on.
4 p.m. 7. NORTHERN LUMINARIES Warning: Shopping at Three Monkeys (Les Cours Mont Royal; 1455, Peel Street, Suite 207; 514-284-1333; threemonkeys.ca), one of a handful of indie boutiques hidden in downtown malls, can lead strangers to grate their fingernails against your trousers.
Take two lemons and grate their skin.
But at their worst their grandiosity quickly grates.
Nevertheless, despite the logic, despite their valid fears, their sheer spinelessness grated on him.
