rave
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- //ɹeɪv//
An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
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familierAn enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
It was the critic's rave that made me want to see the show.
The first-night audience, yes. The first-night reviewers, not exactly. The notices have so far been mixed, only The Financial Times having delivered itself of an unequivocal rave.
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A large-scale dance party with strobe lights and fast-paced electronic dance music, often illegally organized open-air or in underground venues.
She has attended a rave every weekend this month.
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The genres of electronic dance music made to be played in rave parties.
I danced to rave music all night.
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
Étymologie
From Middle English raven (“to rave; talk like a madman”), from Old French raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin. Compare rave below, and rove.
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To be mentally unclear; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
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.
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To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
"She is in trance. Your daughter, sir, is a powerful medium." "A medium! You are raving."
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To talk or otherwise express oneself with excessive enthusiasm, passion or excitement.
He raved about her beauty.
The Lisbon mob, inflamed by the newspapers, and excited by the example of Brazil, raved a day or two for a republic
The hallowed scene / Which others rave on, though they know it not.
“A beautiful country!” “I suppose it is. Everybody says so.” “Your cousin Feenix raves about it, Edith,” interposed her mother from her couch.
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To speak (a message) with intense enthusiasm, passion or excitement.
She raved that she must seek revenge against the wrongdoers.
The Berkeley Courier critic, an Englishwoman, raved: "A new company has started up in our midst, and they provided me last Saturday evening with the best theatrical experience I have had in a very long time, maybe ever..."
"Paloma, Paloma!" raved a delirious backer. "Paloma for a thousand!"
some-times she raved that she cared nought for the future happiness of Ram Ruoy and would not go.
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obsolèteTo rush wildly or furiously.
Under a mightie rocke, gainst which do rave The roaring billowes in their proud disdaine
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To attend a rave (dance party).
The situation with Tommy's parents made me grateful my parents hadn't caught on to my partying that summer. How had I gotten away with raving every weekend, and sometimes on Thursday nights too?
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To wander or roam.
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To stray or err.
Étymologie
From northern Middle English raven, from Old Norse ráfa (“to wander, roam”), of uncertain and obscure origin. Perhaps from a dissimilation of Proto-Germanic *wab(b)ōną (“to sway, waver, swing, shake, wobble, totter, reel, careen”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to move, swarm, waft”). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk rava (“to wander, be delirious”). Doublet of rove. Compare also Middle Dutch reven (“to utter nonsense, rave, be drowsy”) (whence modern Dutch revelen (“to rave, talk nonsense”), Middle Low German rēven (“to be crazy, think and talk nonsensically”), Middle High German reben (“to move about, dream, be confused”) (compare Alemannic German räbeln (“to make loud noise”)).
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One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
It was astonishing to see how he had gnawed the rave of the sled.
The main lever rests upon the rave when not in use.
Next I weld a collar on, A, to keep the brake in place when on the sled; then make a two-eyed bolt to fasten the brake to the rave.
The superstructure of the tender is modified by the removal of the side raves, and compartments for the fire-irons are formed on each side of the coal bunker.
Étymologie
English dialect raves, or rathes (“a frame laid on a wagon, for carrying hay, etc.”).
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Aussi une forme de riveobsolètesimple past of rive
Formes
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- participe passé
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- participe présent
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- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
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rave · An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
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