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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
rap
    n 1: a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame
         for it"; "it was a bum rap" [syn: blame, rap]
    2: a gentle blow [syn: rap, strike, tap]
    3: the sound made by a gentle blow [syn: pat, rap, tap]
    4: voluble conversation
    5: genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in
       which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment;
       several forms of rap have emerged [syn: rap, rap music,
       hip-hop]
    6: the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack"
       [syn: knock, belt, rap, whack, whang]
    v 1: strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles" [syn: rap,
         knap]
    2: make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his
       fingers on the table impatiently" [syn: tap, rap,
       knock, pink]
    3: perform rap music
    4: talk volubly

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rap \Rap\, n.
   A quick, smart blow; a knock.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rap \Rap\, v. t. [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.
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            And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt
            The whirring chariot.                 --Chapman.
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            From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund
            Bacon, to Redgrove.                   --Sir H.
                                                  Wotton.
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   2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
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   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.
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            I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
                                                  --Addison.
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            Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope.
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   4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Low]
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   5. To engage in a discussion, converse.
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   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.
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   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.
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            All they could rap and rend and pilfer. --Hudibras.
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   To rap out, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.
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            A judge who rapped out a great oath.  --Addison.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rap \Rap\ (r[a^]p), n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
   A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. --Knight.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rap \Rap\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rapped (r[a^]pt); p. pr. & vb.
   n. Rapping.] [Akin to Sw. rappa to strike, rapp stroke,
   Dan. rap, perhaps of imitative origin.]
   To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on
   the door.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rap \Rap\, v. t.
   1. To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
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            With one great peal they rap the door. --Prior.
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   2. (Founding) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on
      the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
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7. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rap \Rap\, n.
   1. conversation; also, rapping.
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   2. (ca. 1985) a type of rhythmic talking, often with
      accompanying rhythm instruments; rap music.
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8. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rap \Rap\, n. [Perhaps contr. fr. raparee.]
   A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for
   a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth
   century; any coin of trifling value.
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         Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps.
                                                  --Swift.
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         Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a
         rap, save with her consent.              --Mrs.
                                                  Alexander.
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   Not to care a rap, to care nothing.

   Not worth a rap, worth nothing.
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9. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016)
RAP
       [internet] Route Access Protocol (RFC 1476, Internet)
       

10. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016)
RAP
       Remote Access Point
       

11. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016)
RAP
       Rich Ajax Platform (RCP, Eclipse)
       

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