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raid
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)
- (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.
- 1805, Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, p. 109:
- An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.
- (sports) An attacking movement.
- (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.
- (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)
- (transitive) To engage in a raid against.
- The police raided the gambling den.
- The soldiers raided the village and burned it down.
- (transitive) To lure from another; to entice away from.
- (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)
- (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)
- raid, incursion
- long-distance race or rally
Anagrams
- ardi, ardì, dari, dirà, radi, rida, ridà
Romanian
Etymology
From French raid.
Noun
raid n (plural raiduri)
- raid
Declension
Scots
Etymology
From (a Northern form of) Old English r?d (“riding, road”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /red/
Noun
raid (plural raids)
- raid
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid.
Noun
raid m (plural raides)
- raid (military)
- attempt
- long-distance race
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stoush
English
Etymology
Possibly from stash. Australian from 1893; Boer War military slang. Also may be derived from stushie or stooshie, a Scottish term for a commotion, rumpus, or row.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sta??/
Noun
stoush (plural stoushes)
- (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A fight, an argument.
- 1996, Elizabeth Knox, Glamour and the Sea, Victoria University Press, New Zealand, page 166,
- Barry explained that his friend wasn?t drunk, he?d been in a stoush, had a ding on his head and was covered in money.
- 2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 200,
- Now Henry knows dead cert he?s in for a stoush, but Snake-hips says he should go with him, and out on Nymagee-street Henry Lawson refuses a twenty-pound note, and the two men shake and Henry accepts the next billiards game, doubles with Snake-hips (who plays even worse than Henry), the Minister for Public Instruction, and the Austrian chappie.
- 2004, Jay Verney, Percussion, University of Queensland Press, page 151,
- She and Anna used to reproduce Veronica?s stoushes with Pat, conducted with gusto over the fence but never brought into the confining space of either house where they might smoulder and flare.
- 2008, Anna Haebich, Spinning the Dream: Assimilation in Australia 1950-1970, Fremantle Press, page 63,
- Melbourne almost lost the event when union go-slow tactics and a stoush over federal and state funding responsibilities seriously delayed work on the construction of the Olympic Stadium and Village.
- 1996, Elizabeth Knox, Glamour and the Sea, Victoria University Press, New Zealand, page 166,
Verb
stoush (third-person singular simple present stoushes, present participle stoushing, simple past and past participle stoushed)
- (Australia, informal) To fight; to argue.
- 1916, C. J. Dennis, The Call of Stoush, The Moods of Ginger Mick, 2009, Sydney University Press, page 15,
- Wot price ole Ginger Mick? ?E?s done a break— / Gone to the flamin? war to stoush the foe.
- 1999, Marion Halligan, Marlene Mathews, A Sporting Nation: Celebrating Australia?s Sporting Life, page 121,
- The two business moguls have stoushed over rights to televise rugby union, whose marketability has greatly risen since institution of the World Cup in 1987.
- 2008, Matthew Kidman, Alex Feher, Master CEOs: Secrets of Australia?s Leading CEOs, 2012, unnumbered page,
- There was a lot of corporate stoushing and things said that people didn?t like.
- 1916, C. J. Dennis, The Call of Stoush, The Moods of Ginger Mick, 2009, Sydney University Press, page 15,
Anagrams
- shouts, souths
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