Converse of object

• insert: This also may reduce the need for surgery to insert grommets.

• fit: Fit a rubber grommet ( which provides protection against damage to the cable on the metal edges of the hole.

• need: Hearing noticeably better Many children with glue ear do not need grommets.

• have: This has a large rubber grommet over the hole which must be removed.

• use: Early cars used a large rubber grommet, later cars had a foam seal held in place by plate.

• mount: There's a chrome mushroom affair ( left ) which passes through the rubber anti-vibration mounting grommet.

Adjective modifier

• plastic: Again there should be a plastic grommet between the metal mid-section and the clay bowl.

• convenient: They can mount on flat or curved surfaces using the convenient border grommets to tie or fasten down.

• blind: I intend to cover the lower access holes later with a couple of blind grommets.

Modifies a noun

• insertion: Serious complications from the grommet insertion itself are extremely rare.

• operation: I was quite shocked when the ENT specialist said Mae needed her tonsils and adenoids out, along with the grommet operation.

• hole: They can be mounted either using the 4 grommet holes in the panel corners, or by gluing the panels down.

• strip: Drill or cut a 25mm cable access hole in the forward wall of the trunk and fit the castellated grommet strip.

Noun used with modifier

• rubber: Early cars used a large rubber grommet, later cars had a foam seal held in place by plate.

• metal: Constructed with roped edges and metal grommets in all corners and every 3 feet.

• cord: Slide the cord grommet out of engagement with the cord anchor block.

• brass: A Civil War type is black rubberised canvas with a slit in the middle and brass grommets around the edges.

Preposition: in

• corner: Constructed with roped edges and metal grommets in all corners and every 3 feet.

• ear: They are used to place grommets in the ear in theater, and can be useful for some ear work in the clinic also.

Preposition: for

• ear: An investigation into the use of grommets for glue ear looked at just that point.