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单词 rake
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rakenoun [ C ]

uk/reɪk/us/reɪk/

rake noun [ C ] (TOOL)

a garden tool with a long handle and long, pointed metal parts sticking out in a row at the bottom, used for making the earth level or for collecting leaves, etc.

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Gardening tools

  • clippers
  • edger
  • hedge trimmers
  • hoe
  • hose
  • hover mower
  • lawnmower
  • motor mower
  • mower
  • rose
  • scythe
  • secateurs
  • sprayer
  • sprinkler
  • Strimmer
  • trowel
  • watering can
  • Weed Whacker
  • wheelbarrow

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rake noun [ C ] (SLOPE)

a slope:

The rows of seats are laid out with a very steep rake.

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Slanting, sloping, leaning, tilting

  • angle
  • askew
  • bank
  • cocked
  • cockeyed
  • fall away
  • obliquely
  • pitch
  • pitched
  • raked
  • roll
  • shelve
  • skew
  • slanted
  • slope
  • steep
  • steepen
  • tilt
  • tip (sth/sb) over
  • yaw

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rake noun [ C ] (MAN)

old-fashioned a man, especially one who is rich or with a high social position, who lives in an immoral way, especially having sex with a lot of women

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Unpleasant men

  • badass
  • blackguard
  • blighter
  • bounder
  • bovver boy
  • caveman
  • creep
  • dog
  • git
  • lager lout
  • love rat
  • oik
  • roughneck
  • ruffian
  • scoundrel
  • toad
  • warlock
  • white van man
  • wide boy
  • wise guy

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rakeverb

uk/reɪk/us/reɪk/

rake verb (SEARCH)

[ I + adv/prep ] to search in a container by moving the contents around quickly:

He raked about in the drawer looking for his passport.
I've raked through the cupboard but I can't find my blue mug.

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Searching

  • a needle in a haystack idiom
  • beachcomber
  • bounty hunter
  • burrow
  • cast around
  • dig
  • drag
  • nose
  • once-over
  • pick
  • pick through sth
  • poke
  • poke around
  • seek
  • strip search
  • trail
  • turn a place inside out idiom
  • turn sth upside down idiom
  • wanted
  • wild-goose chase

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rake verb (USE TOOL)

[ I or T ] to use a rake to make earth level or to collect leaves:

In the autumn I rake (up) the dead leaves.
Rake (over) the soil before planting the seeds.

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Gardening tools

  • clippers
  • edger
  • hedge trimmers
  • hoe
  • hose
  • hover mower
  • lawnmower
  • motor mower
  • mower
  • rose
  • scythe
  • secateurs
  • sprayer
  • sprinkler
  • Strimmer
  • trowel
  • watering can
  • Weed Whacker
  • wheelbarrow

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Phrasal verb(s)

rake sth in
rake sth out
rake over sth
rake sth up
rake sth/sb up
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