Rasp vs Rase - What's the difference?
rasp | rase |
A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.
(obsolete) The raspberry.
* Francis Bacon
To use a rasp.
To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps.
To work something with a rasp.
(figurative) To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.
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
As nouns the difference between rasp and rase
is that rasp is a coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file while rase is case.As a verb rasp
is to use a rasp.rasp
English
(wikipedia rasp)Noun
(en noun)- the rasp of her perpetual cough
- Set sorrel amongst rasps , and the rasps will be smaller.
Hypernyms
*Verb
- to rasp''' wood to make it smooth; to '''rasp bones to powder
- Some sounds rasp the ear.
- His insults rasped my temper.
Anagrams
* * * ----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.