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Hostility vs Raid - What's the difference?

hostility | raid |

As a noun hostility

is (uncountable) the state of being hostile.

As an acronym raid is

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

hostility

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being hostile.
  • *, II.12:
    • There is no hostilitie so excellent, as that which is absolutely Christian.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Everton 0-2 Liverpool , passage=But with Goodison Park openly directing its full hostility towards Atkinson, Liverpool went ahead when Carroll turned in his first Premier League goal of the season after 70 minutes.}}
  • * 2013 September 28, (Kenan Malik), " London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
    • The polarization of wealth and the polarization of attitudes to diversity are not unrelated. A key reason for popular hostility to immigrants is that to many people, particularly within working-class communities, immigration has become a symbol of unacceptable change.
  • (countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.

    • Synonyms

    * (state of being hostile) antagonism, opposition, enmity, animosity, antipathy, hatred * (military action) war, fighting, combat

    Antonyms

    * (state of being hostile) amity, friendliness * (military action) peace

    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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