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Raid vs Restripe - What's the difference?

raid | restripe |

As verbs the difference between raid and restripe

is that raid is to engage in a raid while restripe is to change the stripes.

As a noun 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 an acronym RAID

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

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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    restripe

    English

    Verb

    (restrip)
  • To change the stripes
  • (automotive) To change the space markings in a parking lot
  • * When a business, State or local government agency, or other covered entity restripes a parking lot, it must provide accessible parking spaces as required by the ADA Standards for Accessible Design. ADA Design Guide 1 - Restriping Parking Lots
  • To change the lane markings or other markings on a road, runway or other path
    • {{cite-usenet , year=1996 , author=Unknown , title=Z -- RESTRIPE VARIOUS ROADS AND CROSSWALKS AT THE NAVAL AIR STATION, LEMOORE, CALIFORNIA , group=cbd.procurements , googleid=229c91aa138d64f/cbff277da3a34054 , prefix=
    • , text=The work includes furnishing all labor, material, equipment, transportation, supervision, and management necessary for restriping road centerlines, edgelines, stop/yield bars, crosswalks and incidental related work.}}
  • (computing, RAID) To change the manner in which data is laid out across multiple disks.
  • * {{quote-book, 2001, title=Storage area network essentials, author=Richard Barker, Paul Massiglia, page=213
    • , passage=In most cases, reduced application performance is preferable to the alternative of stopping applications entirely to move or restripe data.}}
  • Of land, to redivide
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