different between drivel vs rave

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??v.?l/
• Hyphenation: driv?el
• Rhymes: -?v?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English drivelen, drevelen, from Old English dreflian (“to drivel, slobber, slaver”), from Proto-Germanic *drablijan?,from Proto-Indo-European *d?ereb?- (“cloudy, turbid; yeast”).

Noun

drivel (countable and uncountable, plural drivels)

1. senseless talk; nonsense
2. saliva, drool
3. (obsolete) A fool; an idiot.

Translations

Verb

drivel (third-person singular simple present drivels, present participle (US) driveling or drivelling, simple past and past participle (US) driveled or drivelled)

1. To have saliva drip from the mouth; to drool.
2. To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly; to drool.
3. To be weak or foolish; to dote.
   • driveling dotard

Synonyms

• (have saliva drip from the mouth): drool
• (talk nonsense): See also Thesaurus:nonsense.

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare Old Dutch drevel (“scullion”).

Noun

drivel (plural drivels)

1. (obsolete) A servant; a drudge.

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References

• drivel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Vidler, drevil

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?v, IPA^(key): /?e?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English raven (“to rave; talk like a madman”), from Old French raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin. Compare rove.

Noun

rave (countable and uncountable, plural raves)

1. An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
   • 1989, The New York Times Theater Reviews, 1920- (volume 18, page 167)

     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.

2. An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use.
3. (music, uncountable) The genres of electronic dance music usually 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

Translations

Verb

rave (third-person singular simple present raves, present participle raving, simple past and past participle raved)

1. To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
2. To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
3. To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on.
4. (obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
5. To attend a rave (dance party).

Translations

See also

• rant

Etymology 2

English dialect raves, or rathes (“a frame laid on a wagon, for carrying hay, etc.”).

Noun

rave (plural raves)

1. One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

Etymology 3

Verb

rave

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of rive

Anagrams

• AVRE, Vera, aver, evar, vare, vera

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin raph?nus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (rháphanos). Cf. also French rave.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?ra.v?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?ra.b?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ra.ve/

Noun

rave m (plural raves)

1. radish
2. (figuratively) trifle (thing of little importance or worth)

Derived terms

• ravenera
• ravenissa

Further reading

• “rave” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “rave” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “rave” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

References

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ra?v?/, [????w?]

Verb

rave (imperative rav, infinitive at rave, present tense raver, past tense ravede, perfect tense har ravet)

1. reel
2. stagger, totter, lurch

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

rave

1. first-person singular present indicative of raven
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of raven
3. imperative of raven

Anagrams

• vare

French

Etymology 1

From Old French, from Latin rapa, plural of r?pum, used instead as a feminine singular. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rap-. Compare Italian rapa and Venetian rava.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?av/

Noun

rave m (plural raves)

1. beet, turnip

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English rave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v/

Noun

rave m (plural raves)

1. rave party

   Synonym: rave party

Anagrams

• rêva

Further reading

• “rave” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ra?.u?e/, [?rä?u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ra.ve/, [?r??v?]

Adjective

r?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of r?vus

References

• rave in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Noun

rave

1. Alternative form of reif

Spanish

Etymology

From English rave.

Noun

rave f (plural raves)

1. rave (party)

Venetian

Noun

rave

1. plural of rava