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Rapt vs Rapped - What's the difference?

rapt | rapped |

As verbs the difference between rapt and rapped

is that rapt is (obsolete) to transport or ravish while rapped is (rap).

As an adjective rapt

is (uncomparable|archaic) snatched, taken away; abducted.

As a noun rapt

is (obsolete) an ecstasy; a trance.

rapt

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (uncomparable, archaic) Snatched, taken away; abducted.
  • * Chapman
  • And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt / The whirring chariot.
  • * Sir H. Wotton
  • From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove.
  • (uncomparable) Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
  • (comparable) Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.
  • The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat.
  • * 1851-2 , , The Necromancer'', in ''Reynolds?s Miscellany , republished 1857; 2008, page 247,
  • It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind.
  • * 1906 , '', ''Works of Ford Madox Ford , 2011, unnumbered page,
  • Her expression grew more rapt ; she paused as if she had lost the thread of the words and then spoke again, gazing far out over the hall as jugglers do in performing feats of balancing:.
  • * 1908 ,
  • The Rat never answered, if indeed he heard. Rapt , transported, trembling, he was possessed in all his senses by this new divine thing that caught up his helpless soul and swung and dandled it, a powerless but happy infant in a strong sustaining grasp.
  • * 1998 , Derel Leebaert, Present at the Creation'', Derek Leebaert (editor), ''The Future of the Electronic Marketplace , page 24,
  • (comparable) Enthusiatic; ecstatic, elated, happy.
  • He was rapt with his exam results.
  • * Addison
  • I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
  • * 1996 , James Richard Giles, Wanda H. Giles, American Novelists Since World War II: Fifth Series , page 139,
  • Creatures who navigate long-distance migrations — including the green turtles, wind birds, or great cranes — draw his most rapt commentaries.
  • * 2010 , Michael Reichert, Richard Hawley, Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys: Strategies that Work—and Why , John Wiley & Sons, US, page 121,
  • Even in the most rapt accounts of independent student work, there appears an appreciative acknowledgment of the teacher?s having determined just the right amount of room necessary to build autonomy without risking frustration and failure.
  • * 2010 , , I Came to Say Goodbye , page 201,
  • One bloke I met in the pub was the owner of the local meatworks. He was rapt' to have the Sudanese, and if 1600 more were coming – that was the rumour – well, he?d have been even more ' rapt .
  • * 2012 , Greig Caigou, Wild Horizons: More Great Hunting Adventures , HarperCollins (New Zealand), unnumbered page,
  • These are worthy aspects of the hunt to give some consideration to with the next generation, because market forces want us to get more rapt with ever more sophisticated gear and an algorithmic conquering of animal instinct.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To transport or ravish.
  • (Drayton)
  • (obsolete) To carry away by force.
  • (Daniel)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An ecstasy; a trance.
  • (Bishop Morton)
  • (obsolete) rapidity
  • (Sir Thomas Browne)

    Anagrams

    * part, prat, tarp, trap ----

    rapped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rap)
  • Anagrams

    *

    rap

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) rap, rappe, of (etyl) origin, related to (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (wikipedia rap)
  • (countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
  • The teacher gave the wayward pupil a rap across the knuckles with her ruler.
  • * 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter II,
  • He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap . He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he rapped again, a little louder than before.
  • (uncountable) Blame (for something).
  • You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap .
  • (informal) A casual talk
  • (uncountable) Rap music.
  • A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
  • Synonyms
    * (blame) fall
    Derived terms
    * beat the rap * bum rap * rap music * rap song * take the rap

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) rappen, of (etyl) origin, related to (etyl) .

    Verb

    (rapp)
  • To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
  • * 1845 , (Edgar Allan Poe), "":
  • Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, ¶ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, ¶ While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, ¶ As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ¶ "'Tis some visitor", I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — ¶ Only this, and nothing more."
  • * 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter II,
  • He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped' at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap. He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he ' rapped again, a little louder than before.
  • (dated) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
  • * Prior
  • With one great peal they rap the door.
  • (metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
  • (ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
  • ''He started to rap after listening to the Beastie Boys
    He rapped a song to his girlfriend.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.}}
  • (informal) To talk casually.
  • Derived terms
    * rap on * rapper

    See also

    * emcee * hip-hop

    Etymology 3

    Uncertain.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
  • (Knight)

    Etymology 4

    Perhaps contracted from rapparee.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps .
  • * Mrs. Alexander
  • Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap , save with her consent.
  • A whit; a jot.
  • I don't care a rap .
    That's not worth a rap .

    Anagrams

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