rap : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: rap	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for rap
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rap n a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap" Synonym(s): blame, rap a gentle blow Synonym(s): rap, strike, tap the sound made by a gentle blow Synonym(s): pat, rap, tap voluble conversation 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 Synonym(s): rap, rap music, hip-hop the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack" Synonym(s): knock, belt, rap, whack, whang v strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles" [syn: rap, knap] make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently" Synonym(s): tap, rap, knock, pink perform rap music talk volubly
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rap \Rap\, v. t. 1. To strike with a quick blow; to knock on. With one great peal they rap the door. --Prior. 2. (Founding) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rap \Rap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped}, 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. And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. --Chapman. From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. --Sir H. Wotton. 2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. 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. I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears. --Addison. Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope. 4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Law] {To rap and ren}, {To rap and rend}. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa to hurry and r[91]na plunder, fr. r[be]n plunder, E. ran.] To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden. [bd][Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne.[b8] --Chaucer. All they could rap and rend pilfer. --Hudibras. {To rap out}, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath. A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rap \Rap\, n. A quick, smart blow; a knock.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rap \Rap\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. --Knight.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rap \Rap\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped}; 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps. --Swift. Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent. --Mrs. Alexander.