 |
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rap \Rap\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Rapped} (r[a^]pt), usually written {Rapt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapping}.] [OE. rapen; akin to LG. & D. rapen to snatch, G. raffen, Sw. rappa; cf. Dan. rappe sig to make haste, and Icel. hrapa to fall, to rush, hurry. The word has been confused with L. rapere to seize. Cf. {Rape} robbery, {Rapture}, {Raff}, v., {Ramp}, v.]
1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. --Chapman.
From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. --Sir H. Wotton.
2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears. --Addison.
Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope.
4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Low]
5. To engage in a discussion, converse. [PJC]
6. (ca. 1985) to perform a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by some as a type of music; see {rap music}. [PJC]
{To rap and ren}, {To rap and rend}. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa to hurry and r[ae]na plunder, fr. r[=a]n plunder, E. ran.] To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden. ''[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne.'' --Chaucer.
All they could rap and rend and pilfer. --Hudibras.
{To rap out}, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.
A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rapt \Rapt\, noun [From F. rapt abduction, rape, L. raptus, fr. rapere to seize and carry off, to transport; or fr. E. rapt, a. See {Rapt}, adjective, and {Rapid}.]
1. An ecstasy; a trance. [Obs.] --Bp. Morton.
2. Rapidity. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rapt \Rapt\, verb (used with an object)
1. To transport or ravish. [Obs.] --Drayton.
2. To carry away by force. [Obs.] --Daniel.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rapt \Rapt\ (r[a^]pt), imp. & p. p. of {Rap}, to snatch away.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rapt \Rapt\, adjective
1. Snatched away; hurried away or along.
Waters rapt with whirling away. --Spenser.
2. Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured. ''The rapt musician.'' --Longfellow.
3. Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation. ''Rapt in secret studies.'' --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rapt
adjective
1: deeply moved; "sat completely still, enraptured by the music"; "listened with rapt admiration"; "rapt in reverie" [syn: {enraptured}, {captive}]
2: wholly absorbed as in thought; "deep in thought"; "that engrossed look or rapt delight"; "the book had her totally engrossed"; "enwrapped in dreams"; "so intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"- Walter de la Mare; "rapt with wonder"; "wrapped in thought" [syn: {absorbed}, {engrossed}, {enwrapped}, {intent}, {wrapped}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
161 Moby Thesaurus words for "rapt": absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, arrested, assiduous, beatific, bemused, bewitched, blissful, buried in thought, bursting with happiness, captivated, carried away, castle-building, caught, charmed, constant, continuing, daydreaming, daydreamy, deep, delighted, diligent, dogged, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elate, elated, elsewhere, enchanted, enduring, engaged, engaged in thought, engrossed, engrossed in thought, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, exalted, exultant, faithful, faraway, fascinated, fixed, flushed, freaked out, gripped, half-awake, happy, held, high, hypnotized, immersed, immersed in thought, immutable, imparadised, in a reverie, in ecstasies, in heaven, in paradise, in raptures, in seventh heaven, in the clouds, inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, insistent, introspective, invincible, joyful, joyous, jubilant, lasting, lost, lost in thought, loyal, meditative, mesmerized, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, never-tiring, nodding, oblivious, obstinate, occupied, on cloud nine, overjoyed, overjoyful, patient, patient as Job, pensive, permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, pipe-dreaming, plodding, plugging, possessed, preoccupied, raptured, rapturous, ravished, relentless, resolute, rhapsodic, sedulous, sent, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, somewhere else, spellbound, stable, stargazing, steadfast, steady, stubborn, taken up, tenacious, tireless, transported, unabating, unconquerable, unconscious, undaunted, undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unsleeping, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, weariless, woolgathering, wrapped, wrapped in thought, wrapped up
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
RAPT ["An Interpreter for a Language for Describing Assemblies", R.J. Popplestone et al, Artif Intell 14:79-107 (1980)]. (1995-05-10)
 |
Definitions retrieved from local copies of the freely distributed DICT client/server software and databases. Click here for database copyright information. - KM |