Raid vs Sally - What's the difference?
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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
A willow
Any tree that looks like a willow
An object made from the above trees' wood
A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
A sudden rushing forth.
(figuratively) A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
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An excursion or side trip.
* John Locke
A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
To make a sudden attack on an enemy from a defended position.
To set out on an excursion; venture; depart (often followed by "forth.")
To venture off the beaten path.
(New Zealand, slang) A member of the Salvation Army.
Raid is a related term of sally.
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 proper noun sally is
, also used as a formal given name.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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Synonyms
* (hostile or predatory incursion): attack, foray, incursion * irruptionVerb
(en verb)Anagrams
* ----sally
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) saly, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(sallies)Derived terms
* sally rodEtymology 2
From (etyl) saillie, from sailli, the past participle of the verb saillir 'to leap forth', itself from (etyl) salire 'to leap'Noun
(sallies)citation, page= , passage=The stakes are low and the story beats are incidental amid the rush of largely mild visual gags and verbal sallies like “Blood Island! So called because it’s the exact shape of some blood!” }}
- Everyone shall know a country better that makes often sallies into it, and traverses it up and down, than he that goes still round in the same track.
See also
* sally portVerb
(en-verb)- The troops sallied in desperation.
- As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action. -William Manchester