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Anger vs Raid - What's the difference?

anger | raid |

As nouns the difference between anger and raid

is that anger is a strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm while raid is a hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.

As verbs the difference between anger and raid

is that anger is to cause such a feeling of antagonism while raid is to engage in a raid.

As an acronym RAID is

a redundant array of inexpensive disks, or, less frequently restated as a redundant array of independent disks.

anger

English

(wikipedia anger)

Noun

  • A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
  • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger , leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
  • (obsolete) Pain or stinging.
  • * {{quote-book, 1660, , 3= Mensa mystica, page=322, year_published=1717
  • , passage=It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore;
  • * Temple
  • I made the experiment, setting the moxa where the greatest anger and soreness still continued.

    Synonyms

    * (strong feeling of antagonism) * See also

    Derived terms

    () * angerful * angerless * angry * anger management * in anger

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
  • Don't anger me.
  • To become angry.
  • You anger too easily.

    Synonyms

    * (to cause anger) enrage, infuriate; annoy, vex, grill, displease; aggravate, irritate * (to become angry) get angry (see angry for more)

    References

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    Anagrams

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    raid

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid , the morning fight.
  • * H. Spenser
  • There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids .
  • An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2004 , date=April 15 , author= , title=Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer , work=The Scotsman citation , page= , passage=For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year. }}
  • (online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
  • (sports) An attacking movement.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 20 , author=Jamie Lillywhite , title=Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians.}}

    Synonyms

    * (hostile or predatory incursion): attack, foray, incursion * irruption

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To engage in a raid.
  • To steal from; pillage
  • To lure from another; to entice away from
  • To indulge oneself by taking from
  • Anagrams

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