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Raxes vs Rares - What's the difference?

raxes | rares |

As verbs the difference between raxes and rares

is that raxes is (rax) while rares is (rare).

raxes

English

Verb

(head)
  • (rax)

    • rax

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) raxen, .

    Verb

    (es)
  • (UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To stretch; stretch out.
  • * 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
    • Shoeless, he stood naked on his toes, his arms raxed upwards.
  • (UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To reach out; reach or attain to.
  • (UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To extend the hand to; hand or pass something.
    • Please rax me the pitcher.
  • * 1825 , John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn and John Gibson Lockhart, Noctes Ambrosianæ No. XVIII'', in ''Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , vol. 17:
    • Wha the mischief set him on reading me? I'm sure he could never read onything in a dacent-like way since he was cleckit—rax' me the Queen, and I'll let you hear a bit that will gar your hearts dinnle again—' rax me the Queen, I say.
  • (UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To perform the act of reaching or stretching; stretch one's self; reach for or try to obtain something
  • (UK, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland, intransitive) To stretch after sleep.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)
    Related terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Shortening of barracks.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • barracks
  • * {{quote-video
    • , date = 2014-03-19 , title = , medium = Film , at = 44:28 , people = Clinton "Fear" Loomis , passage = Eventually they just broke our base and took out every single one of our raxes . }} ----

    rares

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rare)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    rare

    English

    Etymology 1

    From a dialectal variant of rear, from (etyl) rere, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l) (UK)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (cooking, particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense).
  • * Dryden
    • New-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care / Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare .
    Synonyms
    * (cooked very lightly) sanguinary
    Antonyms
    * (cooked very lightly) well done
    Derived terms
    * medium-rare

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) rare, from (etyl) rare, .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Very uncommon; scarce.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
    • , title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
  • (label) Thin; of low density.
    • Synonyms
    * (very uncommon) scarce, selcouth, seld, seldsome, selly, geason, uncommon
    Antonyms
    * (very uncommon) common
    Derived terms
    * rare bird * rare earth mineral
    Related terms
    * rarity

    Etymology 3

    Variant of rear .

    Verb

    (rar)
  • (US) To rear, rise up, start backwards.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 328:
    • Frank pretended to rare back as if bedazzled, shielding his eyes with a forearm.
  • (US) To rear, bring up, raise.
    • Usage notes
    * (rft-sense) Principal current, non-literary use is of the present participle raring' with a verb in "'''raring''' to". The principal verb in that construction is ''go''. Thus, '''''raring''' to go'' ("eager (to start something)") is the expression in which '''''rare is most often encountered as a verb.

    Etymology 4

    Compare rather, rath.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) early
  • * Chapman
    • Rude mechanicals that rare and late / Work in the market place.

    Anagrams

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