English Dictionary: rapid transit | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Rabbit warren}, a piece of ground appropriated to the breeding and preservation of rabbits. --Wright. {Rock rabbit}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Daman}, and {Klipdas}. {Welsh rabbit}, a dish of which the chief constituents are toasted bread and toasted cheese, prepared in various ways. The name is said to be a corruption of {Welsh rare bit}, but perhaps it is merely a humorous designation. | |
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Rabbitry \Rab"bit*ry\, n. A place where rabbits are kept; especially, a collection of hutches for tame rabbits. | |
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Rafter \Raft"er\, n. A raftsman. | |
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Rafter \Raft"er\, n. [AS. r[91]fter; akin to E. raft, n. See {Raft}.] (Arch.) Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber. Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping, according to the inclination of the roof. See Illust. of {Queen-post}. [Courtesy] oft is sooner found in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls. --Milton. | |
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Rafter \Raft"er\, v. t. 1. To make into rafters, as timber. 2. To furnish with rafters, as a house. 3. (Agric.) To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge. [Eng.] | |
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Rapter \Rap"ter\ (r[acr]p"t[etil]r), n. A raptor. [Obs.] --Drayton. | |
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Raptor \Rap"tor\ (r[acr]p"t[etil]r), n. [L. raptor, from rapere to ravish. See {Rapid}.] A ravisher; a plunderer. [Obs.] | |
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Raptorial \Rap*to"ri*al\ (-r[icr]*[ait]l), a. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Rapacious; living upon prey; -- said especially of certain birds. (b) Adapted for seizing prey; -- said of the legs, claws, etc., of insects, birds, and other animals. (c) Of or pertaining to the Raptores. See Illust. (f) of Aves. | |
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Raptorious \Rap*to"ri*ous\ (-[ucr]s), a. [L. raptorius.] (Zo[94]l.) Raptorial. | |
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Rapture \Rap"ture\ (r[acr]p"t[usl]r; 135), n. [L. rapere, raptum, to carry off by force. See {Rapid}.] 1. A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence. [Obs.] That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With headlong rapture. --Chapman. 2. The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy. Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture. --Addison. You grow correct that once with rapture writ. --Pope. 3. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. [Obs.] --Shak. Syn: Bliss; ecstasy; transport; delight; exultation. | |
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Rapture \Rap"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raptured} (-t[usl]rd; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapturing}.] To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic] --Thomson. | |
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Rapture \Rap"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raptured} (-t[usl]rd; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapturing}.] To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic] --Thomson. | |
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Rapture \Rap"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raptured} (-t[usl]rd; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapturing}.] To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic] --Thomson. | |
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Rapturist \Rap"tur*ist\, n. An enthusiast. [Obs.] --J. Spencer. | |
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Rapturize \Rap"tur*ize\, v. i. & i. To put, or be put, in a state of rapture. [R.] | |
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Rapturous \Rap"tur*ous\, a. Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause. | |
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Rapturously \Rap"tur*ous*ly\, adv. In a rapturous manner. | |
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Rebutter \Re*but"ter\, n. (Law) The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder. | |
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Refuter \Re*fut"er\ (-f?t"?r), n. One who, or that which, refutes. | |
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Rehibitory \Re*hib"i*to*ry\ (r?*h?b"?*t?*r?), a. (Law) Of or relating to rehibition; as, a rehibitory action. | |
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Repatriate \Re*pa"tri*ate\ (r?-p?"tr?-?t), v. t. [L. repatriare. See 1st {Repair}.] To restore to one's own country. | |
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Repatriation \Re*pa`tri*a"tion\ (-?"sh?n), n. [Cf. LL. repatriatio return to one's country.] Restoration to one's country. | |
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Repeater \Re*peat"er\ (-?r), n. One who, or that which, repeats. Specifically: (a) A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters. (b) A repeating firearm. (c) (Teleg.) An instrument for resending a telegraphic message automatically at an intermediate point. | |
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Ribaudred \Rib"aud*red\, Ribaudrous \Rib"aud*rous\, a. Filthy; obscene; ribald. [Obs.] | |
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Ribaudred \Rib"aud*red\, Ribaudrous \Rib"aud*rous\, a. Filthy; obscene; ribald. [Obs.] | |
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Ribaudry \Rib"aud*ry\, n. Ribaldry. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Rifter \Rift"er\, n. A rafter. [Obs.] --Holland. | |
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Riveter \Riv"et*er\, n. One who rivets. | |
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Rooftree \Roof"tree`\, n. The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself. Now for me the woods may wither, now for me the rooftree fall. --Tennyson. | |
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Rope \Rope\, n. [AS. r[be]p; akin to D. reep, G. reif ring hoop, Icel. reip rope, Sw. rep, Dan. reb, reeb Goth. skaudaraip latchet.] 1. A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See {Cordage}. 2. A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions. 3. pl. The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds. {Rope ladder}, a ladder made of ropes. {Rope mat}., a mat made of cordage, or strands of old rope. {Rope of sand}, something of no cohession or fiber; a feeble union or tie; something not to be relied upon. {Rope pump}, a pump in which a rapidly running endless rope raises water by the momentum communicated to the water by its adhesion to the rope. {Rope transmission} (Mach.), a method of transmitting power, as between distant places, by means of endless ropes running over grooved pulleys. {Rope's end}, a piece of rope; especially, one used as a lash in inflicting punishment. {To give one rope}, to give one liberty or license; to let one go at will uncheked. | |
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Rubythroat \Ru"by*throat`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of humming birds belonging to {Trochilus}, {Calypte}, {Stellula}, and allies, in which the male has on the throat a brilliant patch of red feathers having metallic reflections; esp., the common humming bird of the Eastern United States ({Trochilus colubris}). | |
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Rufterhood \Ruf"ter*hood\, n. [Cf. {Ruff} a plaited collar.] (Falconry) A kind of hood for a hawk. | |
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Ruptuary \Rup"tu*a*ry\ (?; 135), n. [Cf. Roturier.] One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier. [R.] The exclusion of the French ruptuaries ([bd]roturiers,[b8] for history must find a word for this class when it speaks of other nations) from the order of nobility. --Chenevix. | |
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Rupture \Rup"ture\, v. i. To suffer a breach or disruption. | |
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Rupture \Rup"ture\ (?; 135), n. [L. ruptura, fr. rumpere, ruptum to break: cf. F. rupture. See {Reave}, and cf. {Rout} a defeat.] 1. The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring. --Arbuthnot. Hatch from the egg, that soon, Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. --Milton. 2. Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture. He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family. --E. Everett. 3. (Med.) Hernia. See {Hernia}. 4. A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See {Explosion}. {Modulus of rupture}. (Engin.) See under {Modulus}. Syn: Fracture; breach; break; burst; disruption; dissolution. See {Fracture}. | |
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Rupture \Rup"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ruptured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rupturing}.] 1. To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel. 2. To produce a hernia in. | |
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Hernia \Her"ni*a\, n.; pl. E. {Hernias}, L. {Herni[91]}. [L.] (Med.) A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also {rupture}. {Strangulated hernia}, a hernia so tightly compressed in some part of the channel through which it has been protruded as to arrest its circulation, and produce swelling of the protruded part. It may occur in recent or chronic hernia, but is more common in the latter. | |
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Rupture \Rup"ture\, v. i. To suffer a breach or disruption. | |
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Rupture \Rup"ture\ (?; 135), n. [L. ruptura, fr. rumpere, ruptum to break: cf. F. rupture. See {Reave}, and cf. {Rout} a defeat.] 1. The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring. --Arbuthnot. Hatch from the egg, that soon, Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. --Milton. 2. Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture. He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family. --E. Everett. 3. (Med.) Hernia. See {Hernia}. 4. A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See {Explosion}. {Modulus of rupture}. (Engin.) See under {Modulus}. Syn: Fracture; breach; break; burst; disruption; dissolution. See {Fracture}. | |
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Rupture \Rup"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ruptured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rupturing}.] 1. To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel. 2. To produce a hernia in. | |
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Hernia \Her"ni*a\, n.; pl. E. {Hernias}, L. {Herni[91]}. [L.] (Med.) A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also {rupture}. {Strangulated hernia}, a hernia so tightly compressed in some part of the channel through which it has been protruded as to arrest its circulation, and produce swelling of the protruded part. It may occur in recent or chronic hernia, but is more common in the latter. | |
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Ruptured \Rup"tured\ (?; 135), a. (Med.) Having a rupture, or hernia. | |
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Rupture \Rup"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ruptured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rupturing}.] 1. To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel. 2. To produce a hernia in. | |
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Rupturewort \Rup"ture*wort"\ (?; 135), n. (Bot.) (a) Same as {Burstwort}. (b) A West Indian plant ({Alternanthera polygonoides}) somewhat resembling burstwort. | |
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Rupture \Rup"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ruptured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rupturing}.] 1. To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel. 2. To produce a hernia in. | |
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Rafter J Ranch, WY (CDP, FIPS 63100) Location: 43.42625 N, 110.79844 W Population (1990): 1092 (493 housing units) Area: 8.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Rapid River, MI Zip code(s): 49878 | |
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Rapidwrite into the much more verbose {COBOL} code. [Sammet 1969, p. 338]. (1995-05-10) | |
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repeater device which propagates electrical signals from one cable to another, amplifying them to restore them to full strength in the process. Repeaters are used to counter the attenuation which occurs when signals travel long distances (e.g. across an ocean). A network repeater is less intelligent than a {bridge}, {gateway} or {router} since it works at the {physical layer}. (1998-07-16) |