Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 10
Rapturist (n.) An enthusiast.
Compare: Enthusiast
Enthusiast (n.) 對……熱衷的人；熱心者 [C] [（+about）] A person who is very interested in a particular activity or subject.
‘A sports car enthusiast.’
Enthusiast (n.) (Archaic, derogatory ) A person of intense and visionary Christian views.
Compare: Derogatory
Derogatory (a.) 減損的；有傷品格的；貶低的；【語】貶義的 Showing a critical or disrespectful attitude.
‘She tells me I'm fat and is always making derogatory remarks.’
Rapturist (n.) A person who goes into raptures, an enthusiast.
Rapturize (v. t. & i.) To put, or be put, in a state of rapture.
Rapturize or rapturise (v. i.) To go into ecstasies or raptures.
Rapturize (v. i.) To indulge in rapture.
Rapturous (a.) 著迷的，痴迷的；狂喜的；銷魂的 Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause.
Compare: Ecstatic
Ecstatic (a.) 狂喜的；著迷的；入神的 Feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement.
‘Ecstatic fans filled the stadium.’
Ecstatic (a.) Involving an experience of mystic self-transcendence.
‘An ecstatic vision of God.’
Ecstatic (n.) 狂喜的人 A person subject to mystical experiences.
Rapturously (adv.) 興高采烈地；狂喜地 In a rapturous manner.
Raqqa (n.) 拉卡（阿拉伯語：الرقة）是敘利亞北部城市，拉卡省省會，地處阿勒頗東部160公里處的幼發拉底河畔。拉卡曾經被伊斯蘭國佔領並作為其行政中心和軍事指揮據點之一。2017年10月17日，敘利亞民主力量下屬武裝當天完全收復了極端組織「伊斯蘭國」在敘利亞的大本營拉卡。[1]
Raqqa (Arabic: الرقة ar-Raqqah), also called Raqa, Rakka, al-Raqqah, and ar-Raqqah, is a city in Syria located on the northeast bank of the Euphrates River, about 160 kilometres (99 miles) east of Aleppo. It is located 40 kilometres (25 miles) east of the Tabqa Dam, Syria's largest dam. The Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine city and bishopric Callinicum (formerly a Latin—and now a Maronite Catholic titular see) was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate between 796 and 809, under the reign of Harun al-Rashid. With a population of 220,488 based on the 2004 official census, Raqqa was the sixth largest city in Syria.[1]
During the Syrian Civil War, the city was captured in 2013 by the Syrian opposition and then by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. ISIL went on to make the city its defacto capital in 2014.[2] As a result, the city was hit by airstrikes from the Syrian government, Russia, the United States and several other countries. Most non-Sunni religious structures in the city were destroyed by ISIL, most notably the Shi'ite Uwais al-Qarni Mosque, while others have been forcefully converted into mosques. On 17 October 2017, following a lengthy battle that saw massive destruction to the city, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declared the liberation of Raqqa from ISIL to be complete. [3]
RARE (Acronyms) Réseaux Associés pour la Recherche Européenne
RARE (Acronym) Rapid Acquisition with Relaxation Enhancement (MRI technique).
Rare (a.) Early. [Obs.]
Rude mechanicals that rare and late Work in the market place. -- Chapman.
Rare (a.) （肉等）半熟的，煮得嫩的 Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton.
New-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare. -- Dryden.
Note: This word is in common use in the United States, but in England its synonym {underdone} is preferred.
Rare (a.) 稀有的，罕見的；傑出的，珍貴的 Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a rare event.
Rare (a.) Of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found.
Rare work, all filled with terror and delight. -- Cowley.
Above the rest I judge one beauty rare. -- Dryden.
Rare (a.) Thinly scattered; dispersed.
Those rare and solitary, these in flocks. -- Milton.
Rare (a.) Characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high elevations.
Water is nineteen times lighter, and by consequence nineteen times rarer, than gold. -- Sir I. Newton.
Syn: Scarce; infrequent; unusual; uncommon; singular; extraordinary; incomparable.
Usage: {Rare}, {Scarce}. We call a thing rare when but few examples, specimens, or instances of it are ever to be met with; as, a rare plant. We speak of a thing as scarce, which, though usually abundant, is for the time being to be had only in diminished quantities; as, a bad harvest makes corn scarce.
A perfect union of wit and judgment is one of the rarest things in the world. -- Burke.
When any particular piece of money grew very scarce, it was often recoined by a succeeding emperor. -- Addison.
Rare (a.) Not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness; "a rare word"; "rare books".
Rare (a.) Recurring only at long intervals; "a rare appearance"; "total eclipses are rare events".
Rare (a.) Not widely distributed; "rare herbs"; "rare patches of green in the desert".
Rare (a.) Having low density; "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air" [syn: {rare}, {rarefied}, {rarified}].
Rare (a.) Marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind; "what is so rare as a day in June"-J.R.Lowell; "a rare skill"; "an uncommon sense of humor"; "she was kind to an uncommon degree" [syn: {rare}, {uncommon}].
Rare (a.) (Of meat) Cooked a short time; still red inside; "rare roast beef".
RARE (Acronyms) Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne (org.)
Rarebit (n.) A dainty morsel; a Welsh rabbit. See Welsh rabbit, under Rabbit.
Raree-show (n.) A show carried about in a box; a peep show.
Rarefaction (n.) The act or process of rarefying; the state of being rarefied; -- opposed to condensation; as, the rarefaction of air.
Rarefiable (a.) Capable of being rarefied.
Rarefied (imp. & p. p.) of Rarefy
Rarefying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rarefy
Rarefy (v. t.) To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense.
Rarefy (v. i.) To become less dense; to become thin and porous.
Rarely (adv.) In a rare manner or degree; seldom; not often; as, things rarely seen.
Rarely (adv.) Finely; excellently; with rare skill. See 3d Rare, 2.
Rareness (n.) The state or quality of being rare.
Rareripe (a.) Early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual season.
Rareripe (n.) An early ripening fruit, especially a kind of freestone peach.
Rarification (n.) See Rarefaction.
Rarities (n. pl. ) of Rarity
Rarity (n.) The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.
Rarity (n.) That which is rare; an uncommon thing; a thing valued for its scarcity.
Ras (n.) See 2d Reis.
Rasante (a.) Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them.
Rascal (n.) [C] 流氓，無賴，惡棍；【幽】淘氣鬼，搗蛋鬼 One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean, ill-conditioned beast, esp. a deer.
Rascal (n.) A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.
Rascal (a.) Of or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low; mean; base.
Rascal (n.) A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel [syn: {rogue}, {knave}, {rascal}, {rapscallion}, {scalawag}, {scallywag}, {varlet}].
Rascal (n.) One who is playfully mischievous [syn: {imp}, {scamp}, {monkey}, {rascal}, {rapscallion}, {scalawag}, {scallywag}].
Rascaldom (n.) State of being a rascal; rascality; domain of rascals; rascals, collectively.
Rascaless (n.) A female rascal.
Rascalities (n. pl. ) of Rascality
Rascality (n.) The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud.
Rascality (n.) The poorer and lower classes of people.
Rascallion (n.) A low, mean wretch.
Rascally (a.) Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty.
Rased (imp. & p. p.) of Rase
Rasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rase
Rase (v. t.) To rub along the surface of; to graze.
Rase (v. t.) To rub or scratch out; to erase.
Rase (v. t.) To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
Rase (v. i.) To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.
Rase (n.) A scratching out, or erasure.
Rase (n.) A slight wound; a scratch.
Rase (n.) A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.
Rash (v. t.) To pull off or pluck violently. [Obs.]
Rash (v. t.) To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice. [Obs.]
Rashing off helms and riving plates asunder. -- Spenser.
Rash (n.) 疹， [C]；一下子爆發的一連串（多指不愉快的事物）[S] [（+of）] A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.
{Canker rash}. See in the Vocabulary.
{Nettle rash}. See {Urticaria}.
{Rose rash}. See {Roseola}.
{Tooth rash}. See {Red-gum}.
Rash (n.) An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted. [Obs.] -- Donne.
Rash (a.) 草率從事的，輕率的；急躁的，魯莽的 Sudden in action; quick; hasty. [Obs.] "Strong as aconitum or rash gunpowder." -- Shak.
Rash (a.) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
I scarce have leisure to salute you, My matter is so rash. -- Shak.
Rash (a.) Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.
Rash (a.) Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.
Rash (a.) So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn. [Prov. Eng.] -- Grose.
Syn: Precipitate; headlong; headstrong; foolhardy; hasty; indiscreet; heedless; thoughtless; incautious; careless; inconsiderate; unwary.
Usage: {Rash}, {Adventurous}, {Foolhardy}. A man is adventurous who incurs risk or hazard from a love of the arduous and the bold. A man is rash who does it from the mere impulse of his feelings, without counting the cost. A man is foolhardy who throws himself into danger in disregard or defiance of the consequences.
Was never known a more adventurous knight. -- Dryden.
Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. -- Milton.
If any yet be so foolhardy To expose themselves to vain jeopardy; If they come wounded off, and lame, No honor's got by such a maim. -- Hudibras.
Rash (v. t.) To prepare with haste. [Obs.] -- Foxe.
Rash (a.) Imprudently incurring risk; "do something rash that he will forever repent"- George Meredith.
Rash (a.) Marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences; "foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker"; "became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans"-Macaulay; "a reckless driver"; "a rash attempt to climb Mount Everest" [syn: {foolhardy}, {heady}, {rash}, {reckless}].
Rash (n.) Any red eruption of the skin [syn: {rash}, {roseola}, {efflorescence}, {skin rash}].
Rash (n.) A series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences; "a rash of bank robberies"; "a blizzard of lawsuits" [syn: {rash}, {blizzard}].
Rash (a.) Insensible to the value of our advice.
"Now lay your bet with mine, nor let These gamblers take your cash."
"Nay, this child makes no bet." "Great snakes! How can you be so rash?" Bootle P. Gish
Rasher (n.) A thin slice of bacon.
Rasher (n.) A California rockfish (Sebastichthys miniatus).
Rashful (a.) Rash; hasty; precipitate.
Rashling (n.) A rash person.
Rashly (adv.) In a rash manner; with precipitation.
Rashness (n.) The quality or state of being rash.
Raskolnik (n.) One of the separatists or dissenters from the established or Greek church in Russia.
Rasores (v. t.) An order of birds; the Gallinae.
Rasorial (a.) Of or pertaining to the Rasores, or gallinaceous birds, as the peacock, domestic fowl, partridge, quail, and the like.
Rasour (n.) Razor.
Rasped (imp. & p. p.) of Rasp
Rasping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rasp
Rasp (v. t.) To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.
Rasp (v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language; as, some sounds rasp the ear; his insults rasped my temper.
Rasp (v.) A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
Rasp (v.) The raspberry.
Raspatorium (n.) See Raspatory.
Raspatory (v.) A surgeon's rasp.
Raspberry (n.) (Bot.) [C] 【植】懸鉤子屬植物；覆盆子，木莓；【俚】（表示輕蔑、嘲弄等的）呸聲，咂舌聲 The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry.
Raspberry (n.) The shrub bearing this fruit.
Note: Technically, raspberries are those brambles in which the fruit separates readily from the core or receptacle, in this differing from the blackberries, in which the fruit is firmly attached to the receptacle.
Raspberry (n.) Woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries [syn raspberry, raspberry bush].
Raspberry (n.) Red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries.
Raspberry (n.) A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt [syn: boo, hoot, Bronx cheer, hiss, raspberry, razzing, razz, snort, bird].
Rasper (n.) One who, or that which, rasps; a scraper.
Raspis (n.) The raspberry.
Raspy (a.) Like a rasp, or the sound made by a rasp; grating.
Rasse (n.) A carnivore (Viverricula Mallaccensis) allied to the civet but smaller, native of China and the East Indies. It furnishes a perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the Javanese. Called also Malacca weasel, and lesser civet.
Rasure (v.) The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration.
Rasure (v.) A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing or print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure.
Rat (n.) (Zool.) [C] 鼠；【口】卑鄙小人；叛徒；告密者；【美】【口】女用髮墊 One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the Norway, or brown, rat (M. decumanus), the black rat (M. rattus), and the roof rat (M. Alexandrinus). These were introduced into America from the Old World. The white rat used most commonly in laboratories is primarily a strain derived from {Rattus rattus}.
Rat (n.) A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair. [Local, U.S.]
Rat (n.) One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union. [Cant]
Note: "It so chanced that, not long after the accession of the house of Hanover, some of the brown, that is the German or Norway, rats, were first brought over to this country (in some timber as is said); and being much stronger than the black, or, till then, the common, rats, they in many places quite extirpated the latter. The word (both the noun and the verb to rat) was first, as we have seen, leveled at the converts to the government of George the First, but has by degrees obtained a wider meaning, and come to be applied to any sudden and mercenary change in politics." -- Lord Mahon.
{Bamboo rat} (Zool.), Any Indian rodent of the genus {Rhizomys}.
{Beaver rat}, {Coast rat}. (Zool.) See under {Beaver} and {Coast}.
{Blind rat} (Zool.), The mole rat.
{Cotton rat} (Zool.), A long-haired rat ({Sigmodon hispidus}), native of the Southern United States and Mexico. It makes its nest of cotton and is often injurious to the crop.
{Ground rat}. See {Ground Pig}, under {Ground}.
{Hedgehog rat}. See under {Hedgehog}.
{Kangaroo rat} (Zool.), The potoroo.
{Norway rat} (Zool.), The common brown rat. See {Rat}.
{Pouched rat}. (Zool.) See {Pocket Gopher}, under {Pocket}.
{Pouched rat}. (Zool.) Any African rodent of the genus {Cricetomys}.
{Rat Indians} (Ethnol.), A tribe of Indians dwelling near Fort Ukon, Alaska. They belong to the Athabascan stock.
{Rat mole}. (Zool.) See {Mole rat}, under {Mole}.
{Rat pit}, An inclosed space into which rats are put to be killed by a dog for sport.
{Rat snake} (Zool.), A large colubrine snake ({Ptyas mucosus}) very common in India and Ceylon. It enters dwellings, and destroys rats, chickens, etc.
{Spiny rat} (Zool.), Any South American rodent of the genus {Echinomys}.
{To smell a rat}. See under {Smell}.
{Wood rat} (Zool.), Any American rat of the genus {Neotoma}, especially {Neotoma Floridana}, common in the Southern United States. Its feet and belly are white.
Ratted (imp. & p. p.) of Rat
Ratting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rat
Rat (v. i.) 背叛；密告 [（+on）] In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union.
Coleridge . . . incurred the reproach of having ratted, solely by his inability to follow the friends of his early days. -- De Quincey.
Rat (v. i.) 捕鼠 To catch or kill rats.
Rat (v. i.) To be an informer (against an associate); to inform (on an associate); to squeal; -- used commonly in the phrase to rat on.
Rat (n.) Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
Rat (n.) Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike [syn: {scab}, {strikebreaker}, {blackleg}, {rat}].
Rat (n.) A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'" [syn: {rotter}, {dirty dog}, {rat}, {skunk}, {stinker}, {stinkpot}, {bum}, {puke}, {crumb}, {lowlife}, {scum bag}, {so-and-so}, {git}].
Rat (n.) One who reveals confidential information in return for money [syn: {informer}, {betrayer}, {rat}, {squealer}, {blabber}].
Rat (n.) A pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure.
Rat (v.) Desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage.
Rat (v.) Employ scabs or strike breakers in.
Rat (v.) Take the place of work of someone on strike [syn: {fink}, {scab}, {rat}, {blackleg}].
Rat (v.) Give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat.
Rat (v.) Catch rats, especially with dogs.
Rat (v.) Give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: {denounce}, {tell on}, {betray}, {give away}, {rat}, {grass}, {shit}, {shop}, {snitch}, {stag}].
Rata (n.) A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs.
Ratability (n.) The quality or state of being ratable.
Ratable (a.) Capable of being rated, or set at a certain value.
Ratable (a.) Liable to, or subjected by law to, taxation; as, ratable estate.
Ratable (a.) Made at a proportionate rate; as, ratable payments.
Ratafia (n.) 果仁酒 A spirituous liquor flavored with the kernels of cherries, apricots, peaches, or other fruit, spiced, and sweetened with sugar; -- a term applied to the liqueurs called noyau, cura[,c]ao, etc. [Written also {ratifia} and {ratafee}.]
Ratafia (n.) Sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds [syn: {ratafia}, {ratafee}]
Ratafia (n.) 杏仁味的甜餅乾 Macaroon flavored with ratafia liqueur [syn: {ratafia}, {ratafia biscuit}].
Ratan (n.) See Rattan.
Ratany (n.) Same as Rhatany.
Rataplan (n.) The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse.