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stimulating
English
Adjective
stimulating (comparative more stimulating, superlative most stimulating)
- Having a manner that stimulates.
- 1991 May 12, "Kidnapped!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:
- Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir. The air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behavior of its inhabitants in 1776.
B. Wooster: Hm? What happened in 1776, Jeeves?
Jeeves: I prefer not to dwell on it, if it's convenient to you, sir.
- Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir. The air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behavior of its inhabitants in 1776.
- 1991 May 12, "Kidnapped!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:
Translations
Verb
stimulating
- present participle of stimulate
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rave
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)
- 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.
- 1989, The New York Times Theater Reviews, 1920- (volume 18, page 167)
- An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use.
- (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
- 2009, Chrysalis Experiential Academy, Mind Harvesting (page 109)
Translations
Verb
rave (third-person singular simple present raves, present participle raving, simple past and past participle raved)
- To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
- To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
- To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on.
- (obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
- 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)
- One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
Etymology 3
Verb
rave
- (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)
- radish
- (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)
- reel
- stagger, totter, lurch
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
rave
- first-person singular present indicative of raven
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of raven
- 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)
- beet, turnip
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English rave.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??v/
Noun
rave m (plural raves)
- 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
- 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
- Alternative form of reif
Spanish
Etymology
From English rave.
Noun
rave f (plural raves)
- rave (party)
Venetian
Noun
rave
- plural of rava
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