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rave | tout |

As verbs the difference between rave and tout

is that rave is to wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging while tout is .

As a noun 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.

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

    * ----

    tout

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia tout) (en noun)
  • Someone advertising]] for [[customer, customers in an aggressive way.
  • *1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
  • *:Paul Muniment looked at his young friend a moment. 'Do you want to know what he is? He's a tout .'
  • *:'A tout ? What do you mean?'
  • *:'Well, a cat's-paw, if you like better.'
  • *:Hyacinth stared. 'For whom, pray?'
  • *:'Or a fisherman, if you like better still. I give you your choice of comparisons. I made them up as we came along in the hansom. He throws his nets and hauls in the little fishes—the pretty little shining, wriggling fishes. They are all for her; she swallows, 'em down.'
  • A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
  • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts .}}

    Synonyms

    * barker * pitchman * spruiker

    Derived terms

    * ticket tout

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
  • :
  • *2012 , Scott Tobias, The Hunger Games , The A.V. Club
  • *:For the 75 years since a district rebellion was put down, The Games have existed as an assertion of the Capital’s power, a winner-take-all contest that touts heroism and sacrifice—participants are called “tributes”— while pitting the districts against each other.
  • To look upon or watch.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), X, lvi:
  • *:Nor durst Orcanes view the Soldan's face, / But still upon the floor did pore and tout .
  • Synonyms

    * pimp * pitch * promote * spruik

    See also

    * tout court ----