Raid vs Rifle - What's the difference?

Raid is a related term of rifle.

As an acronym raid

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

As a verb rifle is

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.

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, 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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rifle

English

(wikipedia rifle)

Noun

(en noun)

A long firearm firing a single projectile, usually with a rifled barrel to improve accuracy.

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, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=7 citation , passage=Still, a dozen men with rifles , and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.}}

A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.

Derived terms

* automatic rifle * rifled slug * rifling

Verb

(rifl)

to search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.

To scan many items (especially papers) in a set, quickly. (See also riffle^{[http://verbmall.blogspot.com/2008/05/riffle-or-rifle.html]})

She made a mess when she rifled through the stack of papers, looking for the title document.

To add a spiral to the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.

To strike something with great power.

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, year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Marc Vesty , title=Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Davies's cross was headed away from danger by Robert Huth, only for Baird to take the ball in his stride and rifle his right-footed effort towards the corner from the edge of the box.}}

To commit robbery.

(Bishop Hall)

To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.

* Shakespeare

Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye: / If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you.

To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.

* Alexander Pope

Time shall rifle every youthful grace.

To raffle.

Anagrams

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