Dictionary Definition
rake
Noun
3 a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its
head; used to move leaves or loosen soil
Verb
1 move through with or as if with a rake; "She
raked her fingers through her hair"
2 level or smooth with a rake; "rake
gravel"
3 sweep the length of; "The gunfire raked the
coast"
4 examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper
headlines while waiting for the taxi" [syn: scan, skim, glance over,
run
down]
5 gather with a rake; "rake leaves"
User Contributed Dictionary
Etymology 1
raca,
from Common Germanic *rakaz
Noun
Derived terms
Translations
- Arabic: شوكة الحشائش
- Basque: are
- Catalan: rampí , rasclet
- Croatian: grablje f|p
- Czech: hrábě p
- Dutch: riek , gritsel , hark
- Estonian: reha
- Finnish: harava
- French: râteau
- German: Rechen , Harke
- Hungarian: gereblye
- Italian: rastrello
- Japanese: 熊手 (kumade)
- Korean: 갈퀴 (galkwi)
- Polish: grabie p
- Russian грабли
- Serbian: grabulja
- Slovak: hrable
- Slovene: grablje f|p
- Spanish: rastrillo
- Swedish: kratta, räfsa
Etymology 2
From the verb rakeNoun
Synonyms
Translations
- Arabic: رجل بلا أخلاق
- French: roué
Etymology 3
Via from raka, from Common Germanic *rakanVerb
- To use a rake on (leaves, debris, soil, a lawn, etc) in order
to loosen, gather together, or remove debris from.
- We raked all the leaves into a pile
- To search thoroughly.
- Detectives appeared, roped the curious people out of the grounds, and raked the place for clews. -- Captain John Blaine
- To spray with gunfire.
- the enemy machine guns raked the roadway
Synonyms
- (search thoroughly): comb, go over or through with a fine-tooth comb, scour
Translations
use a rake on
- Arabic: 1.يجمع الحشائش.3, يسرح الشعر\الحشائش.2, قذائف مكثفة
- Dutch: rakelen, harken, gritselen
- Estonian: rehitsema
- Finnish: haravoida
- French: râtisser
- Italian: rastrellare
- Korean: 갈퀴다 (galkwida)
- Polish: grabić
- Slovene: grabiti
- Spanish: rasurar
- Swedish: kratta, räfsa
search thoroughly
- Finnish: haravoida
- French: fouiller, passer au peigne fin
- Korean: 훑다 (hultda)
- Polish: przeczesywać
- Swedish: finkamma
spray with gunfire
- French: arroser
- Polish: ostrzeliwać
Etymology 4
Probably related to German ragenVerb
- jut out (ship’s bow or stern above keel)
Dutch
Adjective
rake (base form raak)- hitting its target
See also
Extensive Definition
Rake may refer to:
- Rake (tool), a long-handled tool with tines
- Rake (poker), the commission taken by a casino when hosting a poker game
- Rake (character), a man habituated to immoral conduct. An archaic term most often found in historical romance novels
- Rake receiver, a radio receiver
- Rake (software), a variant of the make program coded in the Ruby programming language
- Rake (angle), various angles in bicycle and motorcycle geometry
- Rake and trail, also castor angle, the angle between the steering axis and the vertical on a motorcycle
- Rake (cellular automaton), a cellular automaton pattern that moves while regularly emitting spaceships
Rake may also refer to:
- The Rake, a Minnesota literary magazine
- The Rake's Progress is an English opera by Igor Stravinsky based on a series of illustrations by William Hogarth
- Raking fire, fire along the axis of a ship in naval warfare
- The slope of the roof at the end of a gable
- Rake (band), a noise rock/avant-garde musical ensemble from Northern Virginia, USA
- A guitar-playing method involving muted notes
- The artificial slope of a theatre stage
- A train made up primarily of coaches
- Raking, a lock picking technique in which a lock pick is slid outwards from the back of a lock to push its pins up
- Rake Yohn - a member of the CKY and Jackass crews
Places named Rake:
- Rake, Iowa, a city in Iowa, USA
- Rake, West Sussex, a village in West Sussex, England
Rake sounds similar to:
- Reiki, a complementary therapy
rake in German: Rechen
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, aim at, angularity, ascend, backset, bank, barrage, be promiscuous,
beat, blast, blitz, bombard, bounder, bring up, cad, cannon, cannonade, cant, card, careen, chase women, clear, climb, cog, coin money, collect, comb, commence firing, commit
adultery, crag, cultivate, culture, curry, cut, debauch, debauchee, decline, delve, descend, dig, dig up, dip, dissipate, draw together,
dredge up, dress, drop, eliminate, enfilade, fall, fall away, fall off, fallow, fang, fertilize, find, fire a volley, fire at, fire
upon, force, fornicate, fusillade, gallant, gather, gather in, gather
together, gather up, gay deceiver, gay dog, go downhill, go uphill,
grade, grate, graze, grovel, gruel, hackle, harrow, hatchel, heckle, hoe, inclination, incline, jag, keel, lady-killer, lath, lean, leaning, leaning tower, lecher, libertine, list, look all over, look
everywhere, lover-boy, make, masher, mere shadow, mortar, mulch, open fire, open up on,
paper, peak, pecten, pepper, philander, philanderer, pick up,
pitch, playboy, plow, pop at, probe, prodigal, profligate, projection, prune, pull in, rail, raise, rake out, rake up, rakehell, ransack, rascal, ratchet, recall, remove, resurrect, resuscitate, retreat, rifle, rip, rise, roue, rounder, rummage, sawtooth, scoundrel, scour, scrape, scrape together, scrape
up, scratch, screen, search, search high heaven,
shadow, shake, shake down, shaving, shell, shelve, shoot, shoot at, sidle, sift out, skeleton, skirt chaser,
slant, slat, sleep around, slip, slope, snag, snaggle, snipe, snipe at, soup, spade, spire, splinter, sprocket, spur, steeple, strafe, streak, swag, sway, swing, swinger, take aim at, thin, thin out, till, till the soil, tilt, tip, tooth, torpedo, toss, tower of Pisa, turn inside
out, turn upside down, unearth, uprise, vein, voluptuary, wafer, walking phallus, wallow, wanton, weed, weed out, whore, wolf, woman chaser, womanize, womanizer, work, zero in on