English Dictionary: red-hot | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Radiate \Ra"di*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Radiated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Radiating}.] [L. radiatus, p. p. of radiare to furnish with spokes or rays, to radiate, fr. radius. See {Radius}, {Ray} a divergent line.] 1. To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine. Virtues shine more clear In them [kings], and radiant like the sun at noon. --Howell. 2. To proceed in direct lines from a point or surface; to issue in rays, as light or heat. Light radiates from luminous bodies directly to our eyes. --Locke. | |
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Radiate \Ra"di*ate\, v. t. 1. To emit or send out in direct lines from a point or points; as, to radiate heat. 2. To enlighten; to illuminate; to shed light or brightness on; to irradiate. [R.] | |
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Radiate \Ra"di*ate\, a. [L. radiatus, p. p.] 1. Having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated; as, a radiate crystal. 2. (Bot.) Having in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc. 3. (Zo[94]l.) Belonging to the Radiata. | |
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Radiate \Ra"di*ate\, n. (Zo[94]l.) One of the Radiata. | |
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Raid \Raid\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raided}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Raiding}.] To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties. | |
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Rate \Rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rating}.] 1. To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree. To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible. --South. You seem not high enough your joys to rate. --Dryden. 2. To assess for the payment of a rate or tax. 3. To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension. 4. To ratify. [Obs.] [bd]To rate the truce.[b8] --Chapman. {To rate a chronometer}, to ascertain the exact rate of its gain or loss as compared with true time, so as to make an allowance or computation depended thereon. Syn: To value; appraise; estimate; reckon. | |
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d8Struthiones \[d8]Stru`thi*o"nes\, n. pl. [NL. See {Struthio}.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A division, or order, of birds, including only the African ostriches. (b) In a wider sense, an extensive group of birds including the ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, and allied birds incapable of flight. In this sense it is equivalent to {Ratit[91]}, or {Drom[91]ognath[91]}. | |
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Ratite \Rat"ite\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to the Ratit[91]. -- n. One of the Ratit[91]. | |
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Rat \Rat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ratted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ratting}.] 1. In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union. Coleridge . . . incurred the reproach of having ratted, solely by his inability to follow the friends of his early days. --De Quincey. 2. To catch or kill rats. | |
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Redhead \Red"head`\ (-h?d`), n. 1. A person having red hair. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) An American duck ({Aythya Americana}) highly esteemed as a game bird. It is closely allied to the canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red. Called also {red-headed duck}. {American poachard}, {grayback}, and {fall duck}. See Illust. under {Poachard}. (b) The red-headed woodpecker. See {Woodpecker}. 3. (Bot.) A kind of milkweed ({Asclepias Curassavica}) with red flowers. It is used in medicine. | |
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Red-hot \Red"-hot`\ (-h?t`), a. Red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron; red-hot balls. Hence, figuratively, excited; violent; as, a red-hot radical. --Shak. | |
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Redoubt \Re*doubt"\ (r?*dout"), n. [F. redoute, fem., It. ridotto, LL. reductus, literally, a retreat, from L. reductus drawn back, retired, p. p. of reducere to lead or draw back; cf. F. r[82]duit, also fr. LL. reductus. See {Reduce}, and cf. {Reduct}, {R[82]duit}, {Ridotto}.] (Fort.) (a) A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and positions in hostile territory. (b) In permanent works, an outwork placed within another outwork. See F and i in Illust. of {Ravelin}. [Written also {redout}.] | |
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Redweed \Red"weed`\ (r[ecr]d"w[emac]d`), n. (Bot.) The red poppy ({Papaver Rh[d2]as}). --Dr. Prior. | |
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Redwithe \Red"withe`\ (r?d"w?th`), n. (Bot.) A west Indian climbing shrub ({Combretum Jacquini}) with slender reddish branchlets. | |
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Redwood \Red"wood`\ (-w[oocr]d`), n. (Bot.) (a) A gigantic coniferous tree ({Sequoia sempervirens}) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See {Sequoia}. (b) An East Indian dyewood, obtained from {Pterocarpus santalinus}, {C[91]salpinia Sappan}, and several other trees. Note: The redwood of Andaman is {Pterocarpus dalbergioides}; that of some parts of tropical America, several species of {Erythoxylum}; that of Brazil, the species of {Humirium}. | |
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Reeded \Reed"ed\, a. 1. Civered with reeds; reedy. --Tusser. 2. Formed with channels and ridges like reeds. | |
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Bicarbureted \Bi*car"bu*ret`ed\ or -retted \-ret`ted\, a. [Pref. bi- + carbureted.] (Chem.) Containing two atoms or equivalents of carbon in the molecule. [Obs. or R.] | |
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Rid \Rid\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rid} [or] {Ridded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ridding}.] [OE. ridden, redden, AS. hreddan to deliver, liberate; akin to D. & LG. redden, G. retten, Dan. redde, Sw. r[84]dda, and perhaps to Skr. [?]rath to loosen.] 1. To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of. [Obs.] Deliver the poor and needy; rid them out of the hand of the wicked. --Ps. lxxxii. 4. 2. To free; to clear; to disencumber; -- followed by of. [bd]Rid all the sea of pirates.[b8] --Shak. In never ridded myself of an overmastering and brooding sense of some great calamity traveling toward me. --De Quincey. 3. To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy. [Obs.] I will red evil beasts out of the land. --Lev. xxvi. 6. Death's men, you have rid this sweet young prince! --Shak. 4. To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish. [R.] [bd]Willingness rids way.[b8] --Shak. Mirth will make us rid ground faster than if thieves were at our tails. --J. Webster. {To be rid of}, to be free or delivered from. {To get rid of}, to get deliverance from; to free one's self from. | |
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Ridotto \Ri*dot"to\, v. i. To hold ridottos. [R.] --J. G. Cooper. | |
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Riot \Ri"ot\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rioted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rioting}.] [OF. rioter; cf. OD. ravotten.] 1. To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess. Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law. --Daniel. No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows. --Pope. 2. (Law) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See {Riot}, n., 3. --Johnson. | |
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Rooted \Root"ed\, a. Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart. [bd]A rooted sorrow.[b8] --Shak. -- {Root"*ed*ly}, adv. -- {Root"ed*ness}, n. | |
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Root \Root\ (r[oomac]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rooted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rooting}.] 1. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow. In deep grounds the weeds root deeper. --Mortimer. 2. To be firmly fixed; to be established. If any irregularity chanced to intervene and to cause misappehensions, he gave them not leave to root and fasten by concealment. --Bp. Fell. | |
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Rotate \Ro"tate\, a. [L. rotatus, p. p. of rotare to turn round like a wheel, fr. rota wheel. See {Rotary}, and cf. {Roue}.] Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one. | |
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Rotate \Ro"tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rotated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rotating}.] 1. To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve. 2. To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office. | |
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Rotate \Ro"tate\, v. i. 1. To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle. 2. To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office. [Colloq.] [bd]Both, after a brief service, were rotated out of office.[b8] --Harper's Mag. | |
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Rote \Rote\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Roted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Roting}.] To learn or repeat by rote. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Rot \Rot\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rotted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rotting}.] [OE. rotien, AS. rotian; akin to D. rotten, Prov. G. rotten, OHG. rozz[?]n, G. r[94]sten to steep flax, Icel. rotna to rot, Sw. ruttna, Dan. raadne, Icel. rottin rotten. [root]117. Cf. {Ret}, {Rotten}.] 1. To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay. Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. --Pope. 2. Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt. Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons. --Macaulay. Rot, poor bachelor, in your club. --Thackeray. Syn: To putrefy; corrupt; decay; spoil. | |
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Rout \Rout\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Routed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Routing}.] To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout. That party . . . that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied. --Clarendon. Syn: To defeat; discomfit; overpower; overthrow. | |
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Rowdydow \Row"dy*dow\, n. Hubbub; uproar. [Vulgar] | |
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Ruddied \Rud"died\, a. Made ruddy or red. | |
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Rudity \Ru"di*ty\, n. [L. ruditas ignorance, fr. rudis rude, illiterate.] Rudeness; ignorance. [R.] | |
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Rut \Rut\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rutted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rutting}.] To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc. | |
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Redwood, MS Zip code(s): 39156 Redwood, NY Zip code(s): 13679 Redwood, OR (CDP, FIPS 61250) Location: 42.42220 N, 123.38614 W Population (1990): 3702 (1643 housing units) Area: 12.8 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) | |
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Ridott, IL (village, FIPS 64044) Location: 42.29752 N, 89.47732 W Population (1990): 156 (61 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61067 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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Red Hat {Home (http://www.redhat.com/)}. (1996-12-21) | |
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routed under {4.2BSD} {Unix} systems and derivatives to propagate routes among machines on a {local area network}, using the {Routing Information Protocol}. See also {gated}. (2002-07-31) |