different between raid vs daid

English

Alternative forms

• rade (Scotland)

Etymology

From Scots raid (obsolete after Middle English but revived in the 19th-century by Walter Scott), from Old English r?d. Doublet of road.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

raid (plural raids)

1. (military) A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
   • 1805, Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, p. 109:

     Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid, the morning fight.

   • 1872, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology, vol. 1, p. 315:

     There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids.

2. An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.
3. (sports) An attacking movement.
4. (Internet) An activity initiated at or towards the end of a live broadcast by the broadcaster that sends its viewers to a different broadcast, primarily intended to boost the viewership of the receiving broadcaster. This is frequently accompanied by a message in the form of a hashtag that is posted in the broadcast's chat by the viewers.
5. (online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.

Synonyms

• (hostile or predatory invasion): attack, foray, incursion
• (attack or invasion for making arrests, seizing property, or plundering): irruption

Derived terms

• air raid, air-raid

Translations

Verb

raid (third-person singular simple present raids, present participle raiding, simple past and past participle raided)

1. (transitive) To engage in a raid against.

   The police raided the gambling den.

   The soldiers raided the village and burned it down.

2. (transitive) To lure from another; to entice away from.
3. (transitive) To indulge oneself by taking from.

   I raided the fridge for snacks.

Derived terms

• raider
• ramraid

Translations

Anagrams

• Aird, Dair, Dari, IARD, Irad, arid, dari, dira, riad

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d/
• Homophone: raide

Noun

raid m (plural raids)

1. (military) raid

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• dira, rida

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid.

Noun

raid m (invariable)

1. raid, incursion
2. long-distance race or rally

Anagrams

• ardi, ardì, dari, dirà, radi, rida, ridà

Romanian

Etymology

From French raid.

Noun

raid n (plural raiduri)

1. raid

Declension

Scots

Etymology

From (a Northern form of) Old English r?d (“riding, road”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /red/

Noun

raid (plural raids)

1. raid

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid.

Noun

raid m (plural raides)

1. raid (military)
2. attempt
3. long-distance race

English

Adjective

daid (not comparable)

1. (dialect) Nonstandard spelling of dead.

Anagrams

• Dida, diad

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English dad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??ad?/

Noun

daid m (genitive singular daid, nominative plural daideanna)

1. (informal) dad

Synonyms

• daidí
• deaide

Mutation

Northern Sami

Determiner

daid

1. accusative/genitive plural of dat

Welsh

Noun

daid

1. soft mutation of taid (“grandfather”)

Mutation