Rap : (noun)
1: a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for
it"; "it was a bum rap" [syn: blame]
2: a gentle blow [syn: strike, tap]
3: the sound made by a gentle blow [syn: pat, tap]
4: voluble conversation
5: 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 [syn: rap
music, hip-hop]
6: the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack"
[syn: knock, belt, whack, whang]
(verb)
1: strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles" [syn: knap]
2: make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his
fingers on the table impatiently" [syn: tap, knock, pink]
3: perform rap music
4: talk volubly
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Rap : \Rap\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. --Knight.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on 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[ae]na plunder, fr. r[=a]n plunder, E. ran.]
To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden.
``[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne.'' --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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Rap : \Rap\, n.
A quick, smart blow; a knock.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Rap : [internet] Route Access Protocol (RFC 1476, Internet)
Based on Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [Acronyms_Dictionary]:
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Rap : Remote Access Point
Based on Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [Acronyms_Dictionary]:
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