rape : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: rape	by the DICT Development Group
9 results for rape
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rape n Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop Synonym(s): rape, colza, Brassica napus the act of despoiling a country in warfare Synonym(s): rape, rapine the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will Synonym(s): rape, violation, assault, ravishment v force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman was raped on her way home at night" Synonym(s): rape, ravish, violate, assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country" Synonym(s): rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunder
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rape \Rape\, n. [Akin to rap to snatch, but confused with L. rapere. See {Rap} to snatch.] 1. The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rape \Rape\ (r[amac]p), n. [F. r[83]pe a grape stalk.] 1. Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster. --Ray. 2. The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making. 3. A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc. {Rape wine}, a poor, thin wine made from the last dregs of pressed grapes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rape \Rape\, v. t. To commit rape upon; to ravish.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rape \Rape\, v. i. To rob; to pillage. [Obs.] --Heywood.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rape \Rape\, n. [Icel. hreppr village, district; cf. Icel. hreppa to catch, obtain, AS. hrepian, hreppan, to touch.] One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rape \Rape\, n. [L. rapa, rapum, akin to Gr. [?], [?], G. r[81]be.] (Bot.) A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds. Note: These plants, with the edible turnip, have been variously named, but are all now believed to be derived from the {Brassica campestris} of Europe, which by some is not considered distinct from the wild stock ({B. oleracea}) of the cabbage. See {Cole}. {Broom rape}. (Bot.) See {Broom rape}, in the Vocabulary. {Rape cake}, the refuse remaining after the oil has been expressed from the seed. {Rape root}. Same as {Rape}. {Summer rape}. (Bot.) See {Colza}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cole \Cole\, n. [OE. col, caul, AS. cawl, cawel, fr. L. caulis, the stalk or stem of a plant, esp. a cabbage stalk, cabbage, akin to Gr. [?]. Cf. {Cauliflower}, {Kale}.] (Bot.) A plant of the {Brassica} or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of {B. oleracea} called {rape} and {coleseed}.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
rape vt. 1. To {screw} someone or something, violently; in particular, to destroy a program or information irrecoverably. Often used in describing file-system damage. "So-and-so was running a program that did absolute disk I/O and ended up raping the master directory." 2. To strip a piece of hardware for parts. 3. [CMU/Pitt] To mass-copy files from an anonymous ftp site. "Last night I raped Simtel's dskutl directory."