'RAP' definitions:
Definition of 'rap'
(from WordNet)
noun
A reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap" [syn: blame, rap]
noun
noun
noun
Voluble conversation
noun
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, rap music, hip-hop]
noun
verb
Strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles" [syn: rap, knap]
verb
Make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently" [syn: tap, rap, knock, pink]
verb
Perform rap music
verb
Talk volubly
Definition of 'Rap'
From: GCIDE
- Rap \Rap\ (r[a^]p), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rap'
From: GCIDE
- Rap \Rap\, n.
- 1. conversation; also, rapping. [PJC]
- 2. (ca. 1985) a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; rap music. [PJC]
Definition of 'Rap'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Rap'
From: GCIDE
- Rap \Rap\, v. t.
- 1. To strike with a quick blow; to knock on. [1913 Webster]
- With one great peal they rap the door. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Founding) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rap'
From: GCIDE
- Rap \Rap\, n. A quick, smart blow; a knock. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rap'
From: GCIDE
- Rap \Rap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rapped (r[a^]pt), 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. [1913 Webster]
- And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
- From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Low] [1913 Webster]
- 5. To engage in a discussion, converse. [PJC]
- 6. (ca. 1985) to perform a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by some as a type of music; see rap music. [PJC]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- All they could rap and rend and pilfer. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]
- To rap out, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath. [1913 Webster]
- A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rap'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent. --Mrs. Alexander. [1913 Webster]
- Not to care a rap, to care nothing.
- Not worth a rap, worth nothing. [1913 Webster]
Acronyms for 'rap'
From: V.E.R.A.
- [internet] Route Access Protocol (RFC 1476, Internet)
- Remote Access Point
- Rich Ajax Platform (RCP, Eclipse)