Braid vs Raid - What's the difference?
braid | raid |
(obsolete) To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
(archaic) To start into motion.
To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
* Milton
To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.
(obsolete) To reproach; to upbraid.
(obsolete) A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench.
*, Bk.XII, ch.ii:
*:And than in a brayde Sir Launcelot brake hys chaynes of hys legges and of hys armys (and in the brakynge he hurte hys hondys sore).
:(Sackville)
A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.
A fancy; freak; caprice.
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(obsolete) deceitful
* Shakespeare
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
* H. Spenser
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.
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(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.
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To engage in a raid.
To steal from; pillage
To lure from another; to entice away from
To indulge oneself by taking from
As a verb braid
is (obsolete|transitive) to make a sudden movement with, to jerk.As a noun braid
is (obsolete) a sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench.As an adjective braid
is (obsolete) deceitful.As an acronym raid is
(computing) a redundant array of inexpensive disks, or, less frequently restated as a redundant array of independent disks.braid
English
(wikipedia braid)Etymology 1
From (etyl) braiden, breiden, .Alternative forms
* brayde (obsolete), breyde (obsolete)Verb
- Braid your locks with rosy twine.
- (Shakespeare)
Noun
(en noun)External links
* * * (commonslite)Etymology 2
Adjective
(en adjective)- Since Frenchmen are so braid , / Marry that will, I live and die a maid.
Anagrams
* ----raid
English
Noun
(en noun)- Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid , the morning fight.
- There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids .
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