Rapname

• 1

  slangThe Rapaport Diamond Report, the diamond industry standard for the pricing of diamonds.

  • He makes good sense. However, I must comment on "CSO prices rough diamonds to its sightholders based on the Rap List." It does not. It doesn't use the list.
  • Soon after the Diamond Certificate came into being, Mr Martin Rapaport edited and published a regular weekly paper based on these official certificates. […] The Rap price is usually way off sometimes by as much as 30% or more.

rapnoun詞源 1/ɹæp/

• 1

  A sharp blow with something hard.

  • The teacher sat at one end of the bench, with a meek little fellow by his side. When the others were disorderly, this young martyr received a rap; intended, probably, as a sample of what the rest might expect, if they didn't amend.
  • He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap. He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he rapped again, a little louder than before.
• 2

  slangThe blame for something.

  • You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap.
• 3

  informalA casual talk.

  • Clearspace is holding a bisexuality rap at the center, 485 Mass Ave. 7:30pm. Topic of discussion will be femininity and masculinity.
• 4

  entertainmentlifestylemusicRap music.

  • They like listening to rap.
• 5

  A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.

• 6

  informalAn appraisal.

  • a good/great/bad rap
• 7

  informalA positive appraisal; a recommendation.

  • He gave the novel quite a rap.

rapverb詞源 2/ɹæp/

• 1

  To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.

  • While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, / As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
  • He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap. He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he rapped again, a little louder than before.
• 2

  datedTo strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

  • With one great peal they rap the door.
  • Maud took an active part in the drive, and with her cries and flourishings of the broken oar was of considerable assistance. I noticed, though, that whenever one looked tired and lagged, she let it slip past. But I noticed, also, whenever one, with a show of fight, tried to break past, that her eyes glinted and showed bright, and she rapped it smartly with her club.
• 3

  artscraftsengineeringTo free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

• 4

  To utter quickly and sharply.

  • The sergeant rapped out a word of command to the troops.
  • "My dear sir!" rapped out the distressed curate, "don't you think that I haven't worried about that? […]"
• 5

  To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.

  • He started to rap after listening to Tupac.
  • He rapped a song to his girlfriend.
• 6

  informalTo talk casually; to engage in conversation.

  • Three languages rapped, fumbled or rumblingly oozed all the while.
  • Louie said, "I dig this Theo. I'm gonna learn Swahili and rap with him."

rapnoun詞源 3/ɹæp/

• 1

  A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard length taken from the reel, 80 yards of worsted or 120 yards of silk or cotton.

  • […] and that every hank or skein that shall be used as a binder to tie up or bind together any pound or parcel of yarn shall contain the same number of threads in a rap or lea, and the same number of raps or leas as the other hanks or skeins in the said pound or parcel.
  • At each rap the reel was moved slightly to one side, so that the next rap was wound separately, and so on until seven raps had been made, then the seven raps were made up into one hank, […]

rapnoun詞源 4/ɹæp/

• 1

  historicalAny of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

  • Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps.
  • Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent.
• 2

  A whit; a jot.

  • I don't care a rap.
  • That's not worth a rap.

rapverb詞源 5/ɹæp/

• 1

  To seize and carry off.

• 2

  To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.

rapnoun詞源 6/ɹæp/

• 1

  slangA charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.

  • We got one maybe ID, but when we checked, we found out the suspect's been in Rikers for a year on a drug rap.

rapverb詞源 7/ɹæp/

• 1

  to rappel

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