Rap
[ræp]
Definition
(noun.) 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.
(noun.) voluble conversation.
(noun.) a gentle blow.
(verb.) talk volubly.
(verb.) strike sharply; 'rap him on the knuckles'.
(verb.) perform rap music.
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Definition
(n.) A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
(v. i.) To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.
(v. t.) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
(v. t.) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
(n.) A quick, smart blow; a knock.
(v.) To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
(v.) To hasten.
(v.) 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.
(v.) To exchange; to truck.
(n.) 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.
Typist: Zamenhof
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Knock, stroke, pat, thump, thwack, small blow.
v. a. Strike (suddenly), knock, THWACK, WHACK.
Typist: Rowland
Definition
v.t. to seize and carry off: to transport out of one's self: to affect with rapture:—pr.p. rap′ping; pa.p. rapped or rapt.
n. a sharp blow: a knock or a sound made by knocking: a counterfeit coin current in Ireland for a halfpenny in the time of George I.—hence 'Not worth a rap.'—v.t. and v.i. to strike with a quick blow: to knock: to utter sharply as to rap out a lie: to swear falsely:—pr.p. rap′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. rapped.—n. Rap′per one who raps: a door-knocker.
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Examples
- Mr. Vholes gives it a rap, and it sounds as hollow as a coffin. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A rap at the door startled him in this occupation. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Pip's rap, I heard her say, immediately; come in, Pip. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In the very meridian of the night's enjoyment, about an hour after tea, a rap was heard at the door. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- As soon as the waves cease, the hammer gives its last rap, and the tube is left in the decohered condition ready for the next transmission of waves. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I give this here bell a rap with this here hammer, and you go on along the passage till you meet somebody. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- At this very moment a thundering rap at the door was heard. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- There was no answer, and Mrs. Mingott rapped impatiently with her stick on the shiny floor. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I held up my precious book before him; I rapped the open page impressively with my forefinger. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I sat up in bed and rapped my knuckles against the rail to make certain that I was truly awake. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The leader rapped upon it with the hilt of his sword--three quick, sharp blows, a pause, then three more, another pause, and then two. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- First I taught them that they could not unseat me, and even rapped them sharply between the ears to impress upon them my authority and mastery. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Stumbling against a door on the landing, he rapped at it with his knuckles. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Before he had quite undressed, Mrs. Abel rapped at the door; he opened it an inch, so that he could hear her speak low. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- P'raps they wouldn't do it if I wos to go myself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- P'raps they're sent as a consolation, if we only know'd it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- P'raps he'd resign if you disappinted him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Wot I was a-thinkin on, Mr. Sangsby, proceeds Jo, wos, as you wos able to write wery large, p'raps? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If you was writin' to her, p'raps you'd recollect to say that Barkis was willin'; would you? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- P'raps you'd so fur obleege me, learned governor, as tell him that if he don't come precious soon, I'll look him up. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- P'raps he might ha' throw'd a small light on that 'ere liver complaint as we wos a-speakin' on, just now. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She arose, but before she had time to get out of the room a loud rapping began upon the front door. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- While he was gone another rapping came to the door. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Anselmo and Fernando were still shaking the snow from their jackets, beating their trousers and rapping their feet against the wall by the entrance. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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