rake
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(agriculture, horticulture) A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
Đồng nghĩa: horserake
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(by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
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(cellular automata) A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
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The act of raking.
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Something that is raked.
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(Northern England, also, figuratively)(Northern England and climbing, also figurative) A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
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(mining) A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
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(British, Scotland)(British, originally Northern England, Scotland) A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches.
Đồng nghĩa: consist
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(Midlands, Northern England, alt of, alternative)Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”).
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(Scotland)Rate of progress; pace, speed.
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A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
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(specifically)In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
Động từ
verb- 1.
To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
She is raking the gravel path to keep it even.
We raked all the leaves into a pile.
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(alt of, alternative)Alternative spelling of raik (“(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) to walk; to roam, to wander; of animals (especially sheep): to graze; (transitive, chiefly Scotland) to roam or wander through (somewhere)”)
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(Midlands, Northern England, Scotland, intransitive)(intransitive, chiefly Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
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(intransitive)(intransitive, falconry) Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
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(ambitransitive)To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
A mast rakes aft.
Đồng nghĩa: slope
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(nautical) Senses relating to watercraft.
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(dated, intransitive, rare)To behave as a rake; to lead a hedonistic and immoral life.
Đồng nghĩa: blissom, chamber, colt, gill, harlot, harlotize, minx, rake, rig, slut, trollop, wanton, wantonize
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ine-pro From Middle English rake, from Old English raca, racu, ræce (tool with a row of pointed teeth, rake), from Proto-Germanic *rakō, *rekô (tool with a row of pointed teeth, rake), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (to straighten, right oneself).