(a.) Talking irrationally and wildly; as, a raving lunatic.
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.
Raying
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ray
Example Sentences:
(1) The level of gadd45 mRNA increased rapidly after X rays at doses as low as 2 Gy.
(2) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
(3) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
(4) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
(5) A new type of Escherichia coli mutant which shows increased sensitivity to methyl methane sulfonate but not to UV light or to gamma rays was isolated after mutagenesis with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine.
(6) Thin films (OD approximately 0.7) of glucose-embedded membranes, prepared as a control, showed virtually 100% conversion to the M state, and stacks of such thin film specimens gave very similar x-ray diffraction patterns in the bR568 and the M412 state in most experiments.
(7) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
(8) Radiological findings on chest X-rays taken two weeks after BAI were evaluated according to Takeuchi's criteria.
(9) The intermandibularis is probably present only in electric rays.
(10) Carbopol-940 gels, being the best of those used, were studied further for the effect of its concentration and of additives (benzalkonium chloride, phenylmercuric nitrate, chlorbutol and disodium edetate), autoclaving at 121 degrees C for 30 min and irradiation with gamma rays (2.5 Mrad), on the end product.
(11) The X-ray tube rotates outside the detector array at the rate of one revolution per second.
(12) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
(13) Chromosome aberrations were scored in BHK21 C13 Syrian hamster fibroblasts, exposed to 60Co gamma-rays, 250 kV X-rays, 15 MeV neutrons or neutrons of mean energy 2.1 MeV produced from the 9Be(d,n)10B reaction.
(14) The scatter measurement was made using a standard imaging geometry with both beam stops and an additional x-ray detector placed behind the standard imaging detector.
(15) Chest X-ray revealed multiple nodular lesions in both lung fields.
(16) The treatment group received 75 mg of roxatidine acetate hydrochloride at 9 PM and 12 to 13 hours later gastric juice secretion was measured with gastric x-ray films in both groups.
(17) All patients received an X-ray study of swallow at 3 months after the operation.
(18) Modifications in quaternary structure induced by variation of these physicochemical parameters were followed by means of X-ray and quasi-elastic light-scattering and quantified in terms of weight average molecular weight (M), radius of gyration (Rg) and hydrodynamic radius (Rh).
(19) Congenital defect of a cervical pedicle produces a rare clinical syndrome with a characteristic X-ray picture associated with vague clinical signs often accentuated after trauma.
(20) A chest X-ray examination showed a large mediastinal mass on the right.