different between raik vs raid

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?e?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k
• Homophone: rake

Etymology 1

From Middle English rake (“path”), from Old Norse rák (“trail”), from Proto-Germanic *r?k?, *rak?, *rak?, *rak? (“file of tracks, line”), from Proto-Indo-European *(o)reg'-, *(o)reg'a- (“to straighten, direct”). Cognate with Icelandic rák (“streak, grazing”), Icelandic raka (“strip, series”), Norwegian røk (“grazing”), Norwegian rak (“wick”), Old English race, racu (“a run, riverbed”).

Noun

raik (plural raiks) (Northern England, Scotland)

1. (also figuratively) A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:journey

2. The movement of animals while grazing.
3. The pastureland over which animals graze; a range, a stray.
4. (Scotland) A journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported.

Alternative forms

• rake

Verb

raik (third-person singular simple present raiks, present participle raiking, simple past and past participle raiked)

1. (intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To walk; to roam, to wander.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:walk

2. (intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) Of animals (especially sheep): to graze.
3. (transitive, chiefly Scotland) To roam or wander through (somewhere).

Alternative forms

• rake

Etymology 2

See rake (noun) (etymology 4).

Noun

raik (plural raiks)

1. (Scotland) Alternative spelling of rake (“rate of progress; pace, speed”)

Anagrams

• Arik, Irak, Kari, Kira, Rika, ikra, krai, raki, rika

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