(n.) One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
(v. i.) To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman.
(v. i.) To rush wildly or furiously.
(v. i.) To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty.
(v. t.) To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave nonsense.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cheers, then, to an apparent alliance of the NME, a few people in London's trendy E1 district and some dumb young musicians, because "New Rave" is upon us, and there is apparently no stopping it.
(2) UPDATE: Aztec new rave Katy Perry performs onstage.
(3) A century ago, on April 29th 1885, the "Raving Reporter" Egon Erwin Kisch was born in Prague.
(4) As night fell, one teenager, Alex, who had slipped out of an independent school (she refused to say which one) was heading home, pausing only grab a flier advertising a "Snow Rave" for 16-18-year-olds.
(5) Radio remained hostile to electronic dance music unless it had a conventional pop song structure and vocals (as with the Prodigy's punk-rave or Madonna's coopting of trance on Ray of Light ).
(6) They were closely followed by Louise Redknapp and Kevin Clifton, whose American smooth received rave reviews from Revel Horwood.
(7) "I understand you're in town to check out our team," Roth told to Dempsey, the hint of a rave green collar visible beneath his grey sweatshirt.
(8) Whether or not Moore takes credit, his electro house and amped-up dubstep sound has found its way into the fabric of American subculture in a way no other rave genre has before.
(9) No, actually, I am referring to the new HBO series created by and starring ubertalented, zeitgeist-munching wunderkind Lena Dunham , which has just premiered to largely the ravest of rave reviews in the US.
(10) Online, Boyle has been one of the top five most talked-about subjects on the microblogging site Twitter all week, with the Hollywood actors Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore - who between them have nearly 1.5 million followers - raving about her.
(11) The film won awards at Sundance and rave reviews in unlikely places such as Variety and the Hollywood Reporter .
(12) New album Our Love brings all this together: the spindly psychedelia, the thrusting rave breakdowns, the tender positivity… even a convincing tribute to the glossy R&B of Rodney Jerkins and The-Dream.
(13) 'Jonathan Saunders, Preen, Berardi, Kane and JW Anderson are on fire' Those are the names you will be raving about now.
(14) I remember in 06 or so everyone was raving, clubbing, having fun.
(15) Shitdisco are from Scotland, sound less like anything "rave" than like the unremarkable row once made by such rock-groups-with-a-synthesizer as Classix Nouveaux, and will surely all be over by Christmas.
(16) It was these material conditions (more than the talent of individual singers and writers) that spawned the moments that went crashing through popular culture in the UK – from mod to punk, from 2 Tone to rave.
(17) That can’t be the only story we’re hearing – there are new things going on, new underground raves, but there needs to be more money going into making the arts and culture more prominent, so people can get involved more easily.
(18) Hard Festival's Richards wanted to lose the "goofy fashion" side of rave that EDC revels in.
(19) DanceSafe's Messer, a veteran of the idealistic PLUR (peace, love, unity, respect) oriented rave underground of the 90s, complains that the dance festivals offer a "packaged, containerised experience ...
(20) Ironic that an experimental music veteran with 20 years behind him should be leading a fresh charge into the 90s, setting up the framework for Autechre, Aphex Twin and the whole intelligent dance music (IDM) scene, but the rise of sampling, rave and techno was the realisation of a music that codgers like Kirk had only been able to dream of decades earlier, prior to the arrival of the technology.
Relentless
Definition:
(a.) Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is why you will be held relentlessly to account for those choices; why what you said in February invites forensic scrutiny.
(2) The history of events at the end of 2010, from the moment on 4 November when Cable called in the regulators, shows how relentlessly James Murdoch and his PR man Frédéric Michel lobbied and berated the politicians who were trying to stand in their way.
(3) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
(4) Los Angeles were relentless in their vicious pursuit of a game-tying goal on Wednesday, bidding to send Game 4 into overtime.
(5) While none of the fears that have rattled markets are yet realised, the relentless focus on possible risks will likely see another soggy Asia-Pacific trading session.
(6) But when he decided to teach you a lesson, he was relentless, and he took no prisoners.
(7) A handful of the global superstars – Usain Bolt and now Mo Farah – have enhanced their personal value, but most have driven themselves relentlessly for the glory alone.
(8) The pressure from Fulham became relentless and in the 66th minute West Ham's defences burst.
(9) The last few months have seen the former secretary of state dogged by a relentless focus over her use of a private email server , dipping favorabillity numbers and the rise of Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator who is challenging her for the Democratic party’s nomination.
(10) The competition has dozens of star players, almost all the most famous managers, and creates enough drama to feed a relentless media appetite.
(11) The story of the past 30 years has been the relentless hollowing-out of industrial Britain, the single biggest change to the British economy in the postwar era.
(12) Medication, splintage, and physiotherapy are useful in helping to suppress and reduce the effects of the disease, but in some patients arthritis attacks in acute episodes, while in others arthritis chronically and relentlessly pursues its destructive course.
(13) Each sentence seems more absurd than the last until you are finally and irredeemably overwhelmed by its relentless meaningful meaninglessness.
(14) In language eerily familiar to student politicians across the land, Abetz continued: “The new managing director will inherit an unbalanced and largely centralised public broadcaster which has become a protection racket for the left ideology.” For decades the highly trusted public broadcaster has weathered a relentless stream of attacks by the crusaders of the (increasingly) hard right in Australia.
(15) He’s extra confident in my ability to get forward and to develop as a player.” Of his role under the German, Clyne says: “I’ll say definitely pressing on the front foot, setting the trap for the opposition team, and getting more forward on the pitch, and [being] solid defensively as well.” Despite a near-perfect performance when Liverpool handed Manchester City a lesson in high pressing and relentless energy during their 4-1 victory at the Etihad Stadium on 21 November, Klopp never stopped shouting on the touchline.
(16) It doesn't look like that, of course, when the doctor's surgery starts putting up signs in Polish, or your child can't get in to the nearest primary school, and the trajectory of the jobless figures seems relentlessly upwards – even when it is not.
(17) Joanne Segars, NAPF's chief executive, said: "The pressures on final-salary pensions are relentless and their rate of decline seems to be shifting into a new gear.
(18) The movement has been relentlessly promoted by Fox News, which belongs to a more familiar billionaire.
(19) This report demonstrates that it’s time we applied the same relentless focus on transparency and results to funding to the private sector,” he said.
(20) Right-to-work advocates are relentless, he indicates: “We have seen a literal campaign from the other side sprout up in the early summer: ‘Don’t forget to leave the union.’” He calls the 5,000 members who have jumped ship “not a tremendous loss” in the context of current workers.