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单词 raking
释义

rake1 /rāk/

noun
  1. A toothed bar on a handle, for scraping, gathering together, smoothing, etc
  2. A tool for various purposes, toothed, notched or bladed and with a long handle (eg a croupier's implement for drawing in money)
  3. A wheeled field implement with long teeth for gathering hay, scraping up weeds, etc
  4. A connected set (of railway carriages or wagons)
  5. An extremely thin person or horse
transitive verb
  1. To scrape, smooth, clear, break up, draw, gather, remove, cover, uncover, search, ransack, with a rake or as if with a rake
  2. To cover (a fire) with ashes so as to keep it smouldering
  3. To graze, scrape
  4. To pass over violently and swiftly
  5. To fire (bullets, etc) across the entire line of one's enemy
  6. To provide or take a view all over or completely through
intransitive verb
  1. To work with or as if with a rake
  2. To search minutely
ORIGIN: OE raca; Ger Rechen rake; ON reka shovel

rāˈker noun

  1. A person who rakes
  2. A scavenger
  3. A raking implement
  4. (in games) a long, fast, low-flying shot (perh partly from rake4)

rāˈking noun and adjective

rakeˈ-off noun (slang)

Monetary share, esp unearned or dishonest

rakeˈshame noun (obsolete)

A base, dissolute wretch

rake in (informal)

To acquire rapidly and in great quantity

rake up

  1. To revive from oblivion (usu something scandalous)
  2. To collect together

rake2 /rāk/

noun

A debauched or dissolute person, esp a man of fashion

intransitive verb
  1. To lead a rake's life
  2. To make a practice of lechery
ORIGIN: Shortening of rakehell

rāˈkery noun

Dissoluteness

rāˈkish adjective

rāˈkishly adverb

rāˈkishness noun

rake3 /rāk/

noun
  1. Inclination from the vertical or horizontal, eg of a ship's funnel, a theatre stage, etc
  2. An angle, eg between the face of a cutting tool and the surface on which it is working, or the wings and body of an aircraft
intransitive verb

To incline

transitive verb
  1. To slope
  2. To cut aslant
ORIGIN: Ety dubious

rāˈker noun

A sloping support or strut

rāˈkish adjective

  1. With raking masts
  2. Swift-looking
  3. Pirate-like
  4. Dashing
  5. Jaunty

rāˈkishly adverb

rake4 /rāk/ (now dialect)

intransitive verb
  1. To proceed, esp swiftly
  2. To roam, range about
  3. (of a hawk) to fly wide
  4. (of a dog) to follow the scent wanderingly along the ground
ORIGIN: OE racian to go forward, hasten

rāˈker noun

  1. A very fast pace
  2. A plunge in betting

rāˈking adjective

Advancing swiftly

rake5 /rāk/ (N Eng)

noun
  1. A track, esp up a hill or in a gully or a pasture
  2. A pasture
  3. A journey, esp in fetching things
  4. The amount carried at one journey, load, gang
  5. An irregular, usu vertical, vein of ore
  6. A string, eg of wagons
intransitive verb

(eg of sheep) to form into single file

ORIGIN: ON rāk stripe; partly coalescing with raik
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