(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.
Spout
Definition:
(v. t.) To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.
(v. t.) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
(v. t.) To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch.
(v. i.) To issue with with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery.
(v. i.) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
(v. i.) To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
(v. t.) That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building.
(v. t.) A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.
(v. t.) A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.
Example Sentences:
(1) The spout was surrounded by a plastic ring which prevented more than one animal from drinking at any time.
(2) I blame my mother, whom my father called Blabbermouth, for training me up to spout what she called the Truth and what other people call telling the world everybody's private business.
(3) One hr following the competition test, each pair of animals was given access to a single unencumbered spout for a 1-hr period.
(4) If the solution which was previously used for establishing the conditioned taste aversion, appears in the drinking spout, the rat stops drinking after one or two licks.
(5) This situation was modelled in rats trained to lick at a retractable spout which was automatically withdrawn after termination of every lick but could be returned by pressing and releasing a lever placed 4 cm below the spout.
(6) The condition of hemorrhage immediately before the treatment with our technique was classified as spouting hemorrhage for 8 foci (3%), pulsating hemorrhage for 22 foci (9%), adhesion of clot for 179 foci (69%), and hemorrhage from veins and capillaries for 49 foci (19%).
(7) That intraoral intake and fluid ingestion via spout-licking (Weijnen et al., Brain Behav.
(8) The rats were also trained to obtain water from tongue-operated solenoid-driven drinking spouts.
(9) Termination of a photoelectrically monitored lick started a computer controlled delay during which the spout was made inaccesible.
(10) I saw a large group of middle-aged people browsing sheets of paper pinned to camellia bushes spouting vivid pink blooms.
(11) Squirrel monkeys were periodically exposed to brief electric tail shocks in a test environment containing a rubber hose, response lever, and a water spout.
(12) The average length of the ileostomy spout was significantly longer in males without ileostomy problems (5.8 cm) than in males having leakage (3.7 cm).
(13) The results showed that animals injected with cholecystokinin, bombesin, and LiCl developed learned aversions to the milk and actively buried the milk spout with their bedding.
(14) She provides a strong contrast to her sanctimonious, humourless sister Mary, who spouts empty platitudes about acceptable female conduct.
(15) as well as to kids wanting something to spout in the playground.
(16) In each experiment, independent fixed-ratio schedules were concurrently in effect at the two spouts.
(17) I think we should value that more in politics rather than just saying you've got to spout the party line.
(18) In the aftermath, the independent US military newspaper Stars & Stripes reported that Page was "steeped in white supremacy during his army days and spouted his racist views on the job as a soldier".
(19) The same would go for all variants on the statement, spouted with unchallenged frequency by so many people in western public life – the suggestion that they are always working, or that their work is incredibly exhausting.
(20) In Experiment 2, rats did not bury a milk spout until milk consumption was followed by toxicosis.