(v. t.) To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
(n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth.
(n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
(n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
(v. t.) To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
(v. t.) To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.
(v. t.) To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed.
(v. t.) To search through; to scour; to ransack.
(v. t.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck.
(v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
(v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
(n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
(n.) the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
(v. i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
(n.) A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.
(v. i.) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
(v. i.) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
Example Sentences:
(1) While they're raking in the money, he is broke and out of work.'
(2) Since his arrest, a French taboo has been broken and Strauss-Kahn's behaviour towards women, deemed "libertine" by his friends, has been raked over.
(3) Adam Lallana, Rickie Lambert and Dejan Lovren have all moved to Liverpool while Luke Shaw has signed for Manchester United and Arsenal have taken Calum Chambers to the Emirates Stadium, with Southampton raking in more than £88m for the combined deals.
(4) Sir Michael Rake, the chairman of easyJet, said: "Following a thorough process involving a number of high calibre candidates we have unanimously chosen a strong chief executive with the strategic ability, operational capability and passion to drive easyJet through the next stage of its development and we look forward to working with Carolyn."
(5) Anyone could be said to have made mistakes in hindsight and there was nothing to be gained in raking up the past.
(6) Milliken, author of a report on rhino-horn consumption in Vietnam , also expressed concerns about the end-user market: "One wonders if unscrupulous dealers in these markets will not simply employ some means to 'bleach' them to back to a 'normal' appearance and continue raking in high profits."
(7) 4 min: Another raking pass to Di Maria, who wins a penalty after smashing the ball against the hand of David Alaba.
(8) The muck-raking website Lifenews.ru, which has close links to the FSB, Putin’s former spy agency, has pointed the finger at Nemtsov’s colourful love life.
(9) Round K-wires with either a diamond point or a high rake-angle trocar point were compared with each other and with C-wires, which have a rounded square cross section and a short diamond point.
(10) I also present a method for teaching this system to residents that makes use of a piece of cotton or nylon rope, a cotton mop refill, and the end of a garden rake.
(11) Sturridge's wonderful change of pace saw him accelerating on to Gerrard's raking long pass down the right and, with the defence left standing, the on-rushing Uruguayan met Sturridge's ball across the six-yard box.
(12) The panel Tim Kelsey , national director for patients and information, NHS England Dr Chaand Nagpaul , GP and chair of the British Medical Association 's GP committee Gary Walker , former United Lincolnshire hospitals trust chief and whistleblower Ben Pathe , business development officer, Patient Opinion Roger Kline , director, Patients First Jo Bibby , director of strategy, Health Foundation Nick Chinn , co-founder of #WeNurses Dr Nicola Williams , deputy director of research, North Bristol NHS trust Katherine Rake , chief executive, Healthwatch England Dr Tom Kennedy , consultant physician and rheumatologist, Royal Liverpool University hospital
(13) From our investigations and research from elsewhere it appeared that the National Board of Health defines negligence as considerable error of judgement, or where examination or history raking, had been insufficient.
(14) Among an all-star cast, including Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy and Shia LaBoeuf, Pearce still manages to stand out as Charlie Rakes, the special deputy from Chicago sent to Virginia to close down the sale of illegal liquor for good.
(15) As well as raking in the cash, Google is responsible for much of the infrastructure that delivers digital advertising.
(16) The British sent non-essential staff on the same route as the Americans but, lacking air cover, saw their Jeeps raked with gunfire and forced back.
(17) Haji-Ioannou and his easyGroup had instigated a series of "increasingly personalised attacks", Rake declared , "involving a number of inaccurate and misleading statements, including inappropriate and defamatory assertions and innuendo".
(18) While he gets his beard trimmed – a painstaking process that takes 45 minutes and involves an Afro comb the size of a garden rake – Rick dishes out a little parable about how to deal with paparazzi in light of Alec Baldwin's recent decision to quit public life (and New York) after one too many run-ins.
(19) Rake, married with four sons, keeps horses at his Oxfordshire home and has formed a polo team.
(20) When disaster duly strikes, and Lydia runs off with a notable rake to live in sin somewhere in London, he is powerless.
Rare
Definition:
(a.) Early.
(superl.) Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton.
(superl.) Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a rare event.
(superl.) Of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found.
(superl.) Thinly scattered; dispersed.
(superl.) Characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high elevations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Guillain Barré syndrome following herpes zoster is rare and only 25 cases have been reported to date.
(2) Hypothyroidism complicated by spontaneous hyperthyroidism is an interesting but rare occurrence in the spectrum of autoimmune thyroid disorders.
(3) Oculomotor paresis with cyclic spasms is a rare syndrome, usually noticeable at birth or developing during the first year of life.
(4) The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85).
(5) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
(6) Cor triatriatum (CT) is a rare congenital defect, surgically correctable, and sometimes difficult to diagnose by cardiac catheterization.
(7) During this period he developed autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, a rare complication of myelofibrosis.
(8) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
(9) This analysis demonstrated that more than 75% of cosmids containing a rare restriction site also contained a second rare restriction site, suggesting a high degree of CpG-rich restriction site clustering.
(10) These are rare tumours comparable to abdominal desmoid tumours.
(11) They can rarely be detected spontaneously but most often are provoked.
(12) A rare case of an extradural brucellosis granuloma in the thoracic region is presented.
(13) Massive osteoplastic bone tumor in hepatocellular carcinoma is very rare.
(14) Aneurysmal bone cyst is an uncommon benign lesion that rarely presents in the craniofacial region.
(15) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
(16) Useful studies on the relationship between these acute lesions and peptic ulceration are rare.
(18) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
(19) Metastatic tumors of the small bowel from extra-abdominal sites are rare.
(20) Perinephric abscess is a rare condition; it may be acute, but can take a chronic and atypical course as a result of incomplete treatment with antibiotics.