Found 3 items, similar to Rap.
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Definition: rap
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: rap
rap
n 1: a reproach for some lapse or misdeed;
“he took the blame for
it”;
“it was a bum rap” [syn:
blame]
2: a gentle blow [syn:
strike,
tap]
3: the sound made by a gentle blow [syn:
pat,
tap]
4: voluble conversation
5: genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in
which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical
accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged [syn:
rap music
,
hip-hop]
6: the act of hitting vigorously;
“he gave the table a whack”
[syn:
knock,
belt,
whack,
whang]
[also:
rapping,
rapped]
rap
v 1: strike sharply;
“rap him on the knuckles” [syn:
knap]
2: make light, repeated taps on a surface;
“he was tapping his
fingers on the table impatiently” [syn:
tap,
knock,
pink]
3: perform rap music
4: talk volubly
[also:
rapping,
rapped]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Rap
Rap
\Rap\ (r[a^]p), n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. --Knight.
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Rap
\Rap\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Rapped (r[a^]pt); p. pr. & vb.
n.
Rapping.] [Akin to Sw. rappa to strike, rapp stroke,
Dan. rap, perhaps of imitative origin.]
To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on
the door.
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Rap
\Rap\, v. t.
1. To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
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With one great peal they rap the door. --Prior.
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2. (Founding) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on
the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
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Rap
\Rap\, n.
A quick, smart blow; a knock.
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Rap
\Rap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Rapped (r[a^]pt), usually
written
Rapt; p. pr. & vb. n.
Rapping.] [OE. rapen; akin
to LG. & D. rapen to snatch, G. raffen, Sw. rappa; cf. Dan.
rappe sig to make haste, and Icel. hrapa to fall, to rush,
hurry. The word has been confused with L. rapere to seize.
Cf.
Rape robbery,
Rapture,
Raff, v.,
Ramp, v.]
1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
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And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt
The whirring chariot. --Chapman.
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From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund
Bacon, to Redgrove. --Sir H.
Wotton.
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2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
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3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to
transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or
rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
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I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
--Addison.
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Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope.
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4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Low]
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5. To engage in a discussion, converse.
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6. (ca. 1985) to perform a type of rhythmic talking, often
with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by
some as a type of music; see
rap music.
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To rap and ren,
To rap and rend. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa
to hurry and r[ae]na plunder, fr. r[=a]n plunder, E. ran.]
To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden.
``[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne.'' --Chaucer.
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All they could rap and rend and pilfer. --Hudibras.
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To rap out, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.
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A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison.
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Rap
\Rap\, n. [Perhaps contr. fr. raparee.]
A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for
a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth
century; any coin of trifling value.
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Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps.
--Swift.
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Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a
rap, save with her consent. --Mrs.
Alexander.
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Not to care a rap, to care nothing.
Not worth a rap, worth nothing.
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Rap
\Rap\, n.
1. conversation; also, rapping.
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2. (ca. 1985) a type of rhythmic talking, often with
accompanying rhythm instruments;
rap music.
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