Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 6
Rake (v. i.) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly. [Prov. Eng.]
Rake (v. i.) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life. -- Shenstone.
To rake out (Falconry), To fly too far and wide from its master while hovering above waiting till the game is sprung; -- said of the hawk. -- Encyc. Brit.
Rake (v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
One is for raking in Chaucer for antiquated words. -- Dryden.
Rake (v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
Pas could not stay, but over him did rake. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Rake (n.) A dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue].
Rake (n.) Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; "the roof had a steep pitch" [syn: pitch, rake, slant].
Rake (n.) A long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil.
Rake (v.) Move through with or as if with a rake; "She raked her fingers through her hair."
Rake (v.) Level or smooth with a rake; "rake gravel."
Rake (v.) Sweep the length of; "The gunfire raked the coast."
Rake (v.) Examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi" [syn: scan, skim, rake, glance over, run down].
Rake (v.) Gather with a rake; "rake leaves."
Rake (v.) Scrape gently; "graze the skin" [syn: graze, crease, rake].
Rake, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 227
Housing Units (2000): 119
Land area (2000): 1.007538 sq. miles (2.609511 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.007538 sq. miles (2.609511 sq. km)
FIPS code: 65415
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 43.483451 N, 93.919498 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50465
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Rakehell (a.) Alt. of Rakehelly.
Rakehelly (a.) Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish. [Obs.] -- Spenser. B. Jonson.
Rakehell (n.) A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake.
It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a
sluggard and a rakehell do not go together. -- Barrow. Rakehell
Rakehell (n.) A dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue].
Rakel (a.) Hasty; reckless; rash. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. -- Ra"kel*ness, n. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Raker (n.) One who, or that which, rakes; as:
Raker (n.) A person who uses a rake.
Raker (n.) A machine for raking grain or hay by horse or other power.
Raker (n.) A gun so placed as to rake an enemy's ship.
Raker (n.) (Zool.) See Gill rakers, under 1st Gill.
Rakery (n.) Debauchery; lewdness.
The rakery and intrigues of the lewd town. -- R. North.
Rakeshame (n.) A vile, dissolute wretch. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Rakestale (n.) The handle of a rake.
That tale is not worth a rakestele. -- Chaucer.
Rake-vein (n.) See Rake, a mineral vein. Raki
Rake (n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth.
Rake (n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
Rake (n.) [Perhaps a different word.] (Mining) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; --
called also rake-vein.
Gill rakes. (Anat.) See under 1st Gill.
Rakhine State (n.) 若開邦 Rakhine State (Formerly Arakan) is a state in Myanmar (Burma). Situated on the western coast, it is bordered by Chin State to the north, Magway Region, Bago Region and Ayeyarwady Region to the east, the Bay of Bengal to the west, and the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh to the northwest. It is located approximately between latitudes 17°30' north and 21°30' north and east longitudes 92°10' east and 94°50' east. The Arakan Mountains, rising to 3,063 metres (10,049 ft) at Victoria Peak, separate Rakhine State from central Burma. Off the coast of Rakhine State there are some fairly large islands such as Cheduba and Myingun Island. Rakhine State has an area of 36,762 square kilometres (14,194 sq mi) and its capital is Sittwe. [2]
Raking (n.) The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.
Raking (n.) A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake.
Rakish (a.) Dissolute; lewd; debauched.
The arduous task of converting a rakish lover. -- Macaulay.
Rakish (a.) (Naut.) Having a saucy appearance indicative of speed and dash. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Rakish (a.) Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce].
Rakish (a.) Marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness; "a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors" -- Crary Moore [syn: devil-may-care, raffish, rakish].
Rakishly (adv.) In a rakish manner.
Rakishly (adv.) In a rakish manner; "she wore her hat rakishly at an angle" [syn: rakishly, raffishly, carelessly].
Rakishness (n.) The quality or state of being rakish.
Rakishness (n.) The quality of a rake.
Rakishness (n.) Stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance [syn: jauntiness, nattiness, dapperness, rakishness].
Raku ware () A kind of earthenware made in Japan, resembling Satsuma ware, but having a paler color.
Rale (n.) (Med.) An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying the normal respiratory sounds. See Rhonchus.
Note: Various kinds are distinguished by pathologists; differing in intensity, as loud and small; in quality, as moist, dry, clicking, whistling, and sonorous; and in origin, as tracheal, pulmonary, and pleural.
Rale (n.) A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders); "the death rattle" [syn: rattle, rattling, rale].
Rallentando (a.) [It.] (Mus.) Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.
Rallentando (adv.) Slowing down; "this passage should be played rallentando."
Rallentando (a.) Gradually decreasing in tempo [syn: rallentando, ritardando, ritenuto, rit.].
Ralliance (n.) The act of rallying.
Rallier (n.) One who rallies.
Ralline (a.) (Zool.) Pertaining to the rails.
Rallied (imp. & p. p.) of Rally.
Rallying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rally.
Rally (v. t.) （重新）集合，重整；召集；團結 [（+round）]；重新振作（精神等）；恢復（健康等） To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
Rally (v. i.) （重新）集合，重整；團結 [（+round）]；恢復，復元 [（+from） To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
The Grecians rally, and their powers unite. -- Dryden.
Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world. -- Tillotson.
Rally (v. i.) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
Rally (v. i.) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
Rally (n.) (pl. Rallies) The act or process of rallying (in any of the senses of that word).
Rally (n.) A political mass meeting. [Colloq. U. S.].
Rallies (n. pl. ) of Rally.
Rally (n.) 重振旗鼓，集合，示威運動，價格回穩 The act or process of rallying (in any of the senses of that word).
Rally (n.) A political mass meeting.
Rally (v. t.) 重整旗鼓，恢復集合精神，團結 To attack with raillery, either in good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire.
Honeycomb . . . rallies me upon a country life. -- Addison.
Strephon had long confessed his amorous pain, Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain. -- Gay.
Syn: To banter; ridicule; satirize; deride; mock.
Rally (v. i.) 重整旗鼓，集合，恢復精神，團結 To use pleasantry, or satirical merriment.
Rally (n.) Good-humored raillery.
Rally (n.) A large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm [syn: rally, mass meeting].
Rally (n.) The feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort; "he singled to start a rally in the 9th inning"; "he feared the rallying of their troops for a counterattack" [syn: rally, rallying].
Rally (n.) A marked recovery of strength or spirits during an illness.
Rally (n.) An automobile race run over public roads.
Rally (n.) (Sports) An unbroken sequence of several successive strokes; "after a short rally Connors won the point" [syn: rally, exchange].
Rally (v.) Gather; "drum up support" [syn: beat up, drum up, rally].
Rally (v.) Call to arms; of military personnel [syn: call up, mobilize, mobilise, rally] [ant: demobilise, demobilize, inactivate].
Rally (v.) Gather or bring together; "muster the courage to do something"; "she rallied her intellect"; "Summon all your courage" [syn: muster, rally, summon, come up, muster up].
Rally (v.) Return to a former condition; "The jilted lover soon rallied and found new friends"; "The stock market rallied" [syn: rally, rebound].
Rally (v.) Harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride].
Ralph (n.) A name sometimes given to the raven.
Ralstonite (n.) (Min.) A fluoride of alumina and soda occurring with the Greenland cryolite in octahedral crystals.
Compare: Main memory
Main memory (n.) (Computers) The memory in a computer that holds programs and data for rapid access during execution of a program; it usually hold the largest quantity of rapid-access storage in a computer; RAM ({random access memory"> -- also called RAM ({random access memory. It is contrasted to ROM, disk data storage, cache, registers and other forms of data storage.
Ram (n.) [C] 公羊 The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
Compare: Tup
Tup (n.) 【主英】公羊Chiefly British. A male sheep; ram.
Tup (n.) 【機】動力錘的頭部，錘頭；撞錘 The head of a falling hammerlike mechanism, as of a steam hammer or pile driver.
Tup (v. t.) (tupped, tup·ping.) (Chiefly British.) 與（母羊）交尾，用於公羊 To copulate with (a ewe). Used of a ram.
Tup (v. i.) ( Tupped, Tup·ping.) (Chiefly British.) 與母羊交尾 To copulate with a ewe.
Compare: Main memory
Main memory (n.) (Computers) The memory in a computer that holds programs and data for rapid access during execution of a program; it usually hold the largest quantity of rapid-access storage in a computer;
RAM+({random+access+memory">-- also called RAM ({random access memory. It is contrasted to ROM, disk data storage, cache, registers and other forms of data storage.
Ram (n.) The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
Ram (n.) (Astron.) 【天】（大寫）白羊（星）座 [the S] Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
Ram (n.) (Astron.) The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.
Ram (n.) 攻城槌 An engine of war used for butting or battering. Specifically:
Ram (n.) In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.
Ram (n.) A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.
Ram (n.) A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.
Ram (n.) The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.
Ram (n.) The plunger of a hydraulic press.
Ram's horn. (Fort.) A low semicircular work situated in and commanding a ditch. [Written also ramshorn.] -- Farrow.
Ram's horn. (Paleon.) An ammonite.
Rammed (imp. & p. p.) of Ram.
Ramming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ram.
Ram (v. t.) To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc.
[They] rammed me in with foul shirts, and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins. -- Shak.
Ram (v. t.) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
A ditch . . . was filled with some sound materials, and rammed to make the foundation solid. -- Arbuthnot.
RAM (n.) The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible [syn: random-access memory, random access memory, random memory, RAM, read/ write memory].
RAM (n.) (Astrology) A person who is born while the sun is in Aries [syn: Aries, Ram].
RAM (n.) The first sign of the zodiac which the sun enters at the vernal equinox; the sun is in this sign from about March 21 to April 19 [syn: Aries, Aries the Ram, Ram].
RAM (n.) A tool for driving or forcing something by impact.
RAM (n.) Uncastrated adult male sheep; "a British term is `tup'" [syn: ram, tup].
RAM (v.) Strike or drive against with a heavy impact; "ram the gate with a sledgehammer"; "pound on the door" [syn: ram, ram down, pound].
RAM (v.) Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad" [syn: force, drive, ram].
RAM (v.) Undergo damage or destruction on impact; "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post" [syn: crash, ram].
RAM (v.) Crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad].
RAM, () Random Access Memory (RAM, IC).
RAM, () Rate Adaptive Mode (DSL).
RAM, () Rarely Adequate Memory (slang).
Random-access memory
RAM, (RAM) (Previously "direct-access memory"). A data storage device for which the order of access to different locations does not affect the speed of access. This is in contrast to, say, a magnetic disk, magnetic tape or a mercury delay line where it is very much quicker to access data sequentially because accessing a non-sequential location requires physical movement of the storage medium rather than just electronic switching.
In the 1970s magnetic core memory was used and some old-timers still call RAM "core". The most common form of RAM in use today is semiconductor integrated circuits, which can be either static random-access memory (SRAM) or dynamic random-access memory (DRAM).
The term "RAM" has gained the additional meaning of read-write. Most kinds of semiconductor read-only memory (ROM) are actually "random access" in the above sense but are never referred to as RAM. Furthermore, memory referred to as RAM can usually be read and written equally quickly (approximately), in contrast to the various kinds of programmable read-only memory. Finally, RAM is usually volatile though non-volatile random-access memory is also used.
Interestingly, some DRAM devices are not truly random access because various kinds of "{page mode" or "column mode" mean that sequential access is faster than random access.
The humorous expansion "Rarely Adequate Memory" refers to the fact that programs and data always seem to expand to fill the memory available. (2007-10-12)
Ram, Exalted. The son of Hezron, and one of the ancestors of the royal line (Ruth 4:19). The margin of 1 Chr. 2:9, also Matt. 1:3, 4 and Luke 3:33, have "Aram."
Ram, Exalted. One of the sons of Jerahmeel (1 Chr. 2:25, 27).
Ram, Exalted. A person mentioned in Job 32:2 as founder of a clan to which Elihu belonged. The same as Aram of Gen. 22:21.
Ram, () Elevated; sublime.
Ramadan (n.) The ninth Mohammedan month.
Ramadan (n.) The great annual fast of the Mohammedans, kept during daylight through the ninth month.
Ramadan (n.) The ninth month of the Islamic calendar; the month of fasting; the holiest period for the Islamic faith.
Ramadan (n.) (Islam) A fast (held from sunrise to sunset) that is carried out during the Islamic month of Ramadan.
Ramage (n.) Boughs or branches. [Obs.] -- Crabb.
Ramage (n.) Warbling of birds in trees. [Obs.] -- Drummond.
Ramage (a.) Wild; untamed. [Obs.]
Ramagious (a.) Wild; not tame. [Obs.]
Now is he tame that was so ramagious. -- Remedy of Love.
Ramal (a.) Of or pertaining to a ramus, or branch; rameal.
Ramayana (n.) The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita.
Ramayana (n.) One of two classical Hindu epics telling of the banishment of Rama from his kingdom and the abduction of his wife by a demon and Rama's restoration to the throne.
Ramberge (n.) Formerly, a kind of large war galley.
Ramble (n.) A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation.
Coming home, after a short Christmas ramble. -- Swift.
Ramble (n.) (Coal Mining) A bed of shale over the seam. -- Raymond.
Ramble (n.) A section of woods suitable for leisurely walking.
Ramble (n.) A type of dance; as, the Muskrat ramble.
Rambled (imp. & p. p.) of Ramble.
Rambling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ramble.
Ramble (v. i.) To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world.
He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect darkness, what is his liberty better than if driven up and down as a bubble by the wind? -- Locke.
Ramble (v. i.) To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.
Ramble (v. i.) To extend or grow at random. --Thomson.
Syn: To rove; roam; wander; range; stroll.
Ramble (n.) An aimless amble on a winding course [syn: ramble, meander].
Ramble (v.) Continue talking or writing in a desultory manner; "This novel rambles on and jogs" [syn: ramble on, ramble, jog].
Ramble (v.) Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond].
Rambler (n.) One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer.
Rambler (n.) A person who takes long walks in the country.
Rambler (n.) A person whose speech or writing is not well organized.
Rambling (a.) Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.
Rambling (a.) Spreading out in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair" [syn: sprawling, straggling, rambling, straggly].
Rambling (a.) (Of e.g. speech and writing) Tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that" [syn: digressive, discursive, excursive, rambling].
Rambling (a.) Of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road" [syn: meandering(a), rambling, wandering(a), winding].
Ramblingly (adv.) In a rambling manner.
Ramblingly (adv.) In a rambling manner [syn: discursively, ramblingly].
Rambooze (n.) A beverage made of wine, ale (or milk), sugar, etc. [Obs.] -- Blount.
Rambutan (n.) (Bot.) A Malayan fruit produced by the tree Nephelium lappaceum, and closely related to the litchi nut. It is bright red, oval in shape, covered with coarse hairs (whence the name), and contains a pleasant acid pulp. Called also ramboostan.
Rambutan (n.) Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit [syn: rambutan, rambotan, rambutan tree, Nephelium lappaceum].
Rambutan (n.) Pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines [syn: rambutan, rambotan].
Rameal (a.) Same as Ramal. -- Gray.
Ramean (n.) A Ramist. -- Shipley.
Ramed (a.) Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks.
Ramee (n.) (Bot.) See Ramie.
Ramekin (n.) Same as Ramequin.
Ramequin (n.) [F.] (Cookery) A mixture of cheese, eggs, etc., formed in a mold, or served on bread. [Written also ramekin.]
Ramequin (n.) The porcelian or earthen mold in which ramequins are baked and served, by extension, any dish so used.
Ramekin (n.) A cheese dish made with egg and bread crumbs that is baked and served in individual fireproof dishes [syn: ramekin, ramequin].
Ramekin (n.) A small fireproof dish used for baking and serving individual portions [syn: ramekin, ramequin].
Rament (n.) A scraping; a shaving. [Obs.]
Rament (n.) pl. (Bot.) Ramenta.
Ramenta (n. pl.) (Bot.) Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns. -- Gray.
Ramentaceous (a.) (Bot.) Covered with ramenta.
Rameous (a.) (Bot.) Ramal.
Ramequin (n.) (Cookery) A mixture of cheese, eggs, etc., formed in a mold, or served on bread. [Written also ramekin.]
Ramequin (n.) The porcelian or earthen mold in which ramequins are baked and served, by extension, any dish so used.
Ramequin (n.) A cheese dish made with egg and bread crumbs that is baked and served in individual fireproof dishes [syn: ramekin, ramequin].
Ramequin (n.) A small fireproof dish used for baking and serving individual portions [syn: ramekin, ramequin].
Ramie (n.) (Bot.) 【植】苧麻；苧麻纖維 The grasscloth plant ({B[oe]hmeria nivea); also, its fiber, which is very fine and exceedingly strong; -- called also China grass, and rhea. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.
Ramie (n.) Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves; cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax [syn: ramie, ramee, Chinese silk plant, China grass, Boehmeria nivea].
Ramification (n.) 分枝；分派；縱橫交錯；延伸性影響 The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.
Ramification (n.) A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve.
Ramification (n.) A division into principal and subordinate classes, heads, or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as, the ramifications of a subject or scheme.
Ramification (n.) The production of branchlike figures. -- Crabb.
Ramification (n.) The act of branching out or dividing into branches [syn: branching, ramification, fork, forking].
Ramification (n.) A part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches" [syn: branch, leg, ramification].
Ramification (n.) A development that complicates a situation; "the court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications" [syn: complication, ramification].
Ramification (n.) An arrangement of branching parts.
Ramiflorous (a.) (Bot.) Flowering on the branches.
Ramiflory (n.) [U] Quality of being ramiflorous.
Ramiform (a.) (Bot.) 枝狀的 Having the form of a branch.
Ramified (imp. & p. p.) of Ramify.
Ramifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ramify.
Ramify (v. t.) （使）分枝；（使）分派；（使）縱橫交錯 To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.
Ramify (v. i.) To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant.
When they [asparagus plants] . . . begin to ramify. -- Arbuthnot.
Ramify (v. i.) To be divided or subdivided, as a main subject.
Ramify (v.) Have or develop complicating consequences; "These actions will ramify" [syn: complexify, ramify].
Ramify (v.) Grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large" [syn: ramify, branch].
Ramify (v.) Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" [syn: branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate].
Ramify (v.) [ I or T ] (Formal) （使）分枝, （使）分叉, （使）成網狀 To spread and develop many parts or branches, or to make something do this.
// An elaborate system of canals was built, leading away from the Thames and ramifying throughout the UK.
// Younger branches of the family moved beyond the parish boundaries and ramified the surname widely.
Ramigerous (a.) (Bot.) Bearing branches; branched.
Ramiparous (a.) (Bot.) Producing branches; ramigerous.