Rage vs Rag - What's the difference?
rage | rag |
Violent uncontrolled anger.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
A current fashion or fad.
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(lb) Any vehement passion.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:in great rage of pain
* (1800-1859)
*:He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
*(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
*:convulsed with a rage of grief
(label) To act or speak in heightened anger.
(label) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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(label) To enrage.
(in the plural) Tattered clothes.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Dryden)
A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Milton)
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Fuller)
A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Ben Jonson)
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Spenser)
A ragged edge in metalworking.
(nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Lowell)
(slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
(rfc-sense) (poker slang) A card that appears to help no one.
(rfc-sense) (poker slang) A low card.
A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
* 2003 , (Peter Ackroyd), The Clerkenwell Tales , page 1:
To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
(dated) A prank or practical joke.
(UK, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
(obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
As a verb rage
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English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* fury * ireDerived terms
* pavement rage * road rage * roid rage * trolley rageVerb
(rag)- The madding wheels / Of brazen chariots raged ; dire was the noise.
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
- "The two women murmured over the spirit-lamp, plotting the eternal conspiracy of hush and clean bottles while the wind raged and gave a sudden wrench at the cheap fastenings.
- Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
- (Shakespeare)
Anagrams
* ----rag
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with Swedish ragg.Noun
(en noun)- Virtue, though in rags , will keep me warm.
- Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed, / And fluttered into rags .
- Not having otherwise any rag of legality to cover the shame of their cruelty.
- The other zealous rag is the compositor.
- Upon the proclamation, they all came in, both tag and rag .
- Our ship was a clipper with every rag set.
Derived terms
* on the rag * lose one's rag * ragwort * smell of an oily ragEtymology 2
origin; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.Noun
(en noun)- the three walls around the garden, each one of thirty-three feet, were built out of three layers of stone — pebble stone, flint and rag stone.
Verb
(ragg)Etymology 3
Origin uncertain.Verb
(ragg)Derived terms
* rag the puck * rag onNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* rag day * rag weekEtymology 4
Perhaps from (ragged). Compare later (ragtime).Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
*References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 ----