Rave vs Waive - What's the difference?
rave | waive |
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)
(obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
(obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
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(legal) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.
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To put aside, avoid.
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(obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
(obsolete) To stray, wander.
* c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), "The Merchant's Tale", Canterbury Tales :
(obsolete, legal) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
(obsolete) A waif; a castaway.
* 1624 , (John Donne), Devotions upon Emergent Occasions :
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between rave and waive
is that rave is (obsolete) to rush wildly or furiously while waive is (obsolete) a waif; a castaway.As nouns the difference between rave and waive
is that 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 while waive is (obsolete|legal) a woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman or waive can be .As verbs the difference between rave and waive
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 waive is (obsolete) to outlaw (someone) or waive can be (obsolete) to move from side to side; to sway.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)
See also
* rantEtymology 2
English dialect raves, or .Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----waive
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) weyven, from (etyl) .Verb
(waiv)- If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
Derived terms
* waivableEtymology 2
(etyl) weyven, from (etyl) .Verb
(waiv)- ye been so ful of sapience / That yow ne liketh, for youre heighe prudence, / To weyven fro the word of Salomon.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) waive, probably as the past participle of (weyver), as Etymology 1, above.Noun
(en noun)- (John Donne)
Etymology 4
Variant forms.Noun
(en noun)- I know, O Lord, the ordinary discomfort that accompanies that phrase, that the house is visited, and that thy works, and thy tokens are upon the patient; but what a wretched, and disconsolate hermitage is that house, which is not visited by thee, and what a waive and stray is that man, that hath not thy marks upon him?