Rally vs Rallygoer - What's the difference?
rally | rallygoer |
A demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause
(squash, table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving]] and [[score, scoring a point.
(motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
(business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
* Dryden
* Tillotson
To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
(business, trading) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
* Addison
* Gay
Good-humoured raillery.
One who attends a rally.
*{{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 4, author=Taghreed El-Khodary And Isabel Kershner, title=As Israelis Pull Out of Gaza, Hamas Celebrates Its Rocketry, work=New York Times
, passage=The clearest example of echoing Hezbollah came Monday when thousands attended a so-called victory rally, and Mahmoud Zahar, an influential Hamas leader, briefly came out of hiding to tell the rallygoers that his organization would rebuild any house that had been damaged by the Israeli strikes. }}
As nouns the difference between rally and rallygoer
is that rally is a demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause while rallygoer is one who attends a rally.As a verb rally
is to collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.rally
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Etymology 1
(etyl) ralier ((etyl) rallier), from (etyl) prefix .Noun
(rallies)Hyponyms
* (increase in value) (l)Verb
(en-verb)- The Grecians rally , and their powers unite.
- Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world.
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* (l) * (increase in value) (l), (l)Antonyms
* (increase in value) (l)Derived terms
* rallying pointEtymology 2
(etyl) railler. See .Verb
(en-verb)- Honeycomb raillies me upon a country life.
- Strephon had long confessed his amorous pain / Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain.
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* ----rallygoer
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