Rase vs Rave - What's the difference?
rase | rave |
A scratching out, or erasure
A slight wound; a scratch
A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it
(obsolete) to rub along the surface of; to graze
* South
* Beckford
(obsolete) to rub or scratch out; to erase
* Fuller
to level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze
* Chapman
to be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow
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)
To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
* Addison
* Macaulay
To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , Section 3. ยง 5.
To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about'', ''of'', or (formerly) ''on .
* Byron
(obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
To attend a rave (dance party).
One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between rase and rave
is that rase is case while rave is an enthusiastic review (such as of a play) or rave can be one of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.As a verb rave is
to wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.rase
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(ras)- Was he not in the neighbourhood to death? and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have gone into his head?
- Sometimes his feet rased the surface of water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose.
- Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind.
- Till Troy were by their brave hands rased , / They would not turn home.
Anagrams
* ----rave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin.Noun
(en noun)- 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)- Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?
- The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie.
- A production without design would resemble more the ravings of a madman, than the sober efforts of genius and learning.
- He raved about her beauty.
- The hallowed scene / Which others rave on, though they know it not.
- (Spenser)