Meaning of rap | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A sharp blow with something hard.
   countable
2. 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.
3. Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
   historical
4. The Rapaport Diamond Report, the diamond industry standard for the pricing of diamonds.
   attributive, slang
5. Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution.
   US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
6. ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Rapa Nui
7. recognized air picture
8. The blame for something.
   countable, slang, uncountable, with-definite-article
9. A whit; a jot.
10. A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.
    countable, slang
11. A sharp blow with something hard
12. Initialism of retirement annuity plan.
    UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
13. To strike a quick light blow: rapped on the door.
14. A casual talk.
    countable, informal, uncountable
15. The blame for something
16. To escape punishment or be acquitted of a charge.
17. Rap music.
    uncountable
18. A casual talk
19. To accept punishment or take the blame for an offense or error.
20. A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
    countable, uncountable
21. Rap music
22. The least bit: I don't give a rap about office politics. I don't care a rap what you do.
23. An appraisal.
    Australia, countable, informal, uncountable
24. To perform as rap music: lyrics that were rapped; rapped the chorus of the song.
25. A positive appraisal; a recommendation.
    Australia, countable, informal, uncountable
26. the least bit: I don't care a rap.
27. to transport with rapture.
28. A type of pop music in which performers declaim or chant over a prerecorded musical accompaniment, often using short extracts (called samples) from other well-known recordings. The form is characterized by the street language of black culture and boastful, often confrontational, words.
29. To speak suddenly or sharply, as from surprise or emotion:blurt (out), burst out, cry (out), ejaculate, exclaim.
30. Informal. The least bit:hoot, iota, jot, ounce, shred, whit.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“The author (obviously a naturalist of no mean order) received an official rap over the knuckles for trespassing, and for encouraging others to do so. Evidently the instigator of this reprimand had not visited the railway in blackberry time!”

“You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap.”

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

“They like listening to rap.”

“a good/great/bad rap”

“He gave the novel quite a rap.”

“[…] 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, […]”

“Thus, a rap may be reeled (of cotton or silk 120 yards, of worsted 80 yards), then as one rap is equal to one-seventh of a hank, 1000 grains will be equal to the one-seventh of a pound, so that whatever part of 1000 grains one rap weighs, or whatever number of raps are required to weigh1000 grains, that number of hanks will weigh one pound.”

“The yarn rap reel is 1½ yard in circumference; 80 rounds or 120 yards make one rap; 7 raps or 840 yards one bank. In 1 lb. of cotton yarn there are 7,000 grains. When one rap weighs 1,000 grains, or seven raps 7,000 grains, the yarn is one hank to the pound, and when ten raps weigh 350 grains it is 28.57 hanks to the pound.”

“Rule to find constant for beams: Multiply the number of yards in one rap by the number of ends in the beam, and by the number of raps on the beam and divide by 840.”

“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.”

“I don't care a rap.”

“That's not worth a rap.”

“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.”

“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.”

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