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Raketh vs Raveth - What's the difference?

raketh | raveth |

As verbs the difference between raketh and raveth

is that raketh is (rake) while raveth is (rave).

raketh

English

Verb

(head)
  • (rake)

    • rake

    English

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    Etymology 1

    (etyl) raca, from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting grass or debris, or for loosening soil.
  • *
  • *:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake -handle served as a shaft.
  • A lot, plenty.
  • :
  • (lb) The direction of slip during fault movement. The rake is measured within the fault plane.
  • (lb) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
  • (lb) A set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
  • :
  • (lb) A puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
  • The scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
  • A toothed machine drawn by a horse, used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
  • (lb) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
    • Synonyms
    * (rail transport)
    Derived terms
    * thin as a rake

    Verb

    (rak)
  • To use a rake on (leaves, debris, soil, a lawn, etc) in order to loosen, gather together, or remove debris from.
    • We raked all the leaves into a pile
  • To search thoroughly.
    • Detectives appeared, roped the curious people out of the grounds, and raked the place for clews. -- Captain John Blaine
  • * Dryden
    • raking in Chaucer for antiquated words
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • The statesman rakes the town to find a plot.
  • To spray with gunfire.
    • the enemy machine guns raked the roadway
  • To claw at; to scratch.
    • Her sharp fingernails raked the side of my face.
  • * Wordsworth
    • like clouds that rake the mountain summits
  • To gather, especially quickly (often as rake in)
    • The casino is just raking in the cash; it's like a license to print money.
  • To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • Pas could not stay, but over him did rake .
    Synonyms
    * (search thoroughly) comb, go over or through with a fine-tooth comb, scour

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) raken, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Slope, divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular

    • Verb

    (rak)
  • To proceed rapidly; to move swiftly.
  • (obsolete) To guide; to direct
  • To incline from a perpendicular direction.
    • A mast rakes aft.

    Etymology 3

    Shortening of rakehell, possibly from

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A man habituated to immoral conduct.
    • We now have rakes in the habit of Roman senators, and grave politicians in the dress of Rakes. — the Spectator
    Synonyms
    *

    Verb

    (rak)
  • (UK, dialect, dated) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
  • (UK, dialect, dated) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
    • (Shenstone)

    Etymology 4

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (provincial, Northern England) a course; direction; stretch.
  • (provincial, Northern England, for animals) a range, stray.
    • a sheep-raik'' = a ''sheep-walk

    Verb

    (rak)
  • (provincial, Northern England) To run or rove.

    • References

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    Anagrams

    * English terms with multiple etymologies ----

    raveth

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rave)

    • rave

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
  • An all-night dance party filled with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use.
  • (uncountable) The genre of electronic dance music associated with rave parties.
  • * 2009 , Chrysalis Experiential Academy, Mind Harvesting (page 109)
    • Maybe I wear baggies / And white socks with flip-flops / Maybe I don't like listening to rave / And I'm not on the social mountaintops

    Verb

    (rav)
  • To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
  • * Addison
    • Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?
  • * Macaulay
    • The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie.
  • To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
  • * 1748 , David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , Section 3. § 5.
    • A production without design would resemble more the ravings of a madman, than the sober efforts of genius and learning.
  • To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about'', ''of'', or (formerly) ''on .
    • He raved about her beauty.
  • * Byron
    • The hallowed scene / Which others rave on, though they know it not.
  • (obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
    • (Spenser)
  • To attend a rave (dance party).

    • See also

    * rant

    Etymology 2

    English dialect raves, or .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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