📖 R — The English dictionary · page 3

ragamuffin — Everyday, meaning 1: A ragamuffin is a dirty child in ragged, worn-out clothes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A ragamuffin can also be a rude name for a shabby, poor person.↗ Example: The ragamuffin ran off with the apple.↗ · Look at that ragamuffin in torn clothes.↗ · «You ragamuffin!» said the giant.↗

rage — Everyday, meaning 1: Rage is very strong anger that is hard to control.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To rage means to be very angry and shout.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To rage also means to go on with great force, like a storm, fire or illness.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «All the rage» means very fashionable for a while.↗ Example: He flew into a rage when his tower was knocked down.↗ · The storm raged all night.↗ · When you feel rage, take deep breaths.↗ · The forest fire raged for days.↗ · These trainers are all the rage at school.↗ · The giant roared with rage.↗ · The grand duke flew into a rage.↗ · Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.↗ (Writings DAN.3.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath; and look upon every one that is proud, and abase him.↗ (Writings JOB.40.11, JPS 1917)↗ · For jealousy is the rage of a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.↗ (Writings PRO.6.34, JPS 1917)↗

ragged — Everyday, meaning 1: Old and torn, with holes and loose threads: «a ragged coat».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Wearing old, torn clothes: «a ragged child».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Rough and uneven at the edges, not smooth: «a ragged coastline», «ragged clouds».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Not well together; untidy, uneven or tired: «a ragged performance», «ragged breathing».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (verb form) Past of «rag» (to tease): «They ragged him about his hat.»↗ (UK, old-fashioned).↗ Example: The poor boy in the story wore a ragged coat.↗ · Tear the paper slowly or the edge will be ragged.↗ · Norway has a ragged coastline full of fjords.↗ · The band gave a ragged performance after no practice.↗ · Looking after twins runs Mum ragged.↗ · His breathing was ragged after the race.↗ · The scarecrow's ragged hat flapped in the wind.↗ · "I'm Elfin, the pig keeper," said the ragged youth.↗

raid — Everyday, meaning 1: A raid is a sudden attack on a place by soldiers, ships or aircraft.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A raid is a surprise visit by police to search a place or arrest people.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A raid is when robbers suddenly break in to steal: «a bank raid».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) To raid something means to take a lot from it: «raid the fridge», «raid Mum's wardrobe».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (gaming) In online games, a raid is when many players team up to beat a big enemy.↗ Example: The Vikings raided the monastery and stole its gold.↗ · During air raids, families hid in shelters.↗ · Police raided the warehouse and found stolen phones.↗ · My brother raided the fridge at midnight.↗ · Robbers carried out a raid on the jewellery shop.↗ · We joined a raid to beat the dragon boss in the game.↗ · The air-raid siren wailed across the city.↗ · And the Philistines yet again made a raid in the valley.↗ (Writings 1CH.14.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim.↗ (Writings 1CH.14.9, JPS 1917)↗ · But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying: 'Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have made a raid upon the land.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.23.27, JPS 1917)↗

raider — Everyday, meaning 1: A raider is a person who makes a sudden attack on a place, especially to steal things or cause damage, for example Viking raiders.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A raider is a robber who breaks into a shop or bank suddenly.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In sport, games and stories, raiders are attackers who make quick surprise attacks.↗ Example: Viking raiders attacked the monastery at Lindisfarne.↗ · The raiders sailed away with gold and slaves.↗ · Police caught the bank raiders.↗ · Ram raiders smashed a car through the shop window.↗ · The castle walls kept the raiders out.↗ · My brother is a fridge raider at midnight.↗ · In the game, raiders try to steal your treasure.↗

raiding — Everyday, meaning 1: Raiding is making a sudden attack on a place, usually to steal things or catch people.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (police) Police raiding a building means going in suddenly to search it or arrest people.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal, humorous) Raiding the fridge or the biscuit tin means taking food from it, often secretly.↗ Example: The Vikings were raiding villages along the coast.↗ · Police were raiding the house at dawn.↗ · My brother was caught raiding the biscuit tin.↗ · Foxes keep raiding our bins at night.↗ · The raiding party came by boat.↗ · We went raiding the dressing-up box for costumes.↗ · Squirrels were raiding the bird feeder again.↗

rail — Everyday, meaning 1: A rail is a long bar fixed in place, used to hold on to, to hang things on, or to make a fence.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Rails are the metal bars that trains run on.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Rail means the railway, as in travel by rail.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To rail at someone means to complain or shout angrily at them.↗ Example: Hold on to the rail when you go down the stairs.↗ · Never play near the railway rails.↗ · The train runs on metal rails.↗ · We travelled by rail from London to Edinburgh.↗ · Hang your coat on the rail.↗ · The towel rail in the bathroom is warm.↗ · Don't lean over the balcony rail.↗ · And the poor wife put everything to rights, and reproached and railed at her husband.↗

railing — Everyday, meaning 1: A fence or barrier made of metal or wooden bars, often along stairs, a bridge or a balcony, to stop people falling.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A single bar that you can hold on to, like a handrail.↗ Example: Hold the railing when you go down the stairs.↗ · Do not climb on the balcony railing.↗ · The park has black iron railings around it.↗ · We leaned on the railing to watch the boats.↗ · The bridge railing stops people falling into the river.↗ · He tied his bike to the railings outside the shop.↗ · Paint the railings before the winter.↗ · People used to stop and peep through the railings.↗

railroad — Everyday, meaning 1: In American English, a railway: the track made of steel rails that trains run on, or the whole train system.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As a verb, to railroad someone means to force them to do something quickly without giving them time to think.↗ Example: The railroad runs right past our town.↗ · Stop, look and listen at the railroad crossing.↗ · Never play on railroad tracks.↗ · Building the first railroad across America took many years.↗ · Harriet Tubman led people to freedom on the Underground Railroad.↗ · Grandpa worked on the railroad for forty years.↗ · They railroaded him into joining the club.↗

railway — Everyday, meaning 1: A railway is a track made of metal rails for trains to run on.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A railway is also the whole system of trains, tracks and stations, and the company that runs it.↗ Example: We walked to the railway station.↗ · Never play on the railway line.↗ · The railway runs along the coast.↗ · My grandad has a model railway in the attic.↗ · Wait at the railway crossing until the barrier goes up.↗ · The first railways were built in Britain.↗ · The railway bridge goes over the river.↗ · It was a long journey at that time, for the railway had not been opened.↗

raiment — Everyday, meaning 1: (old, Bible) Clothing, especially fine clothes.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: Clothes, especially fine or grand clothes.↗ Example: The king was dressed in fine raiment.↗ · (Bible) His raiment was white as snow.↗ · The angels shone in bright raiment.↗ · Rich raiment hung in the queen's wardrobe.↗ · (Bible) Is not the body more than raiment?↗ · They wore raiment of silk and gold.↗ · Then Ivan immediately put on his princely raiment, and went out of the house.↗ · And he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.↗ (Torah GEN.41.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.↗ (Torah DEU.8.4, JPS 1917)↗ · If he take him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her conjugal rights, shall he not diminish.↗ (Torah EXO.21.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; (Writings JOB.27.16, JPS 1917)↗ · All glorious is the king's daughter within the palace; her raiment is of chequer work inwrought with gold.↗ (Writings PSA.45.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he girded it under his raiment upon his right thigh.↗ (Prophets JDG.3.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.↗ (Torah GEN.41.14, JPS 1917) · Then I mourned him in black raiment for forty days.↗ (The Brown Fairy Book) · Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.↗ (Torah DEU.8.4, JPS 1917)

rain — Everyday, meaning 1: Rain is water that falls from clouds in drops.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: When it rains, water falls from the sky and the ground gets wet.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A rain of something is a lot of it falling: a rain of arrows.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Rain check» (USA) means doing something another time.↗ Example: It rained 3 inches on Monday and 2 inches on Tuesday.↗ · It rained on 9 days in April.↗ · The game was stopped by rain after 40 minutes.↗ · How much rain fell in the week?↗ · Rain falls when water drops in clouds get too heavy.↗ · Take your umbrella, it's going to rain.↗ · We measured the rain with a jar in the garden.↗ · Plants need rain to grow.↗ · After a good sleep she felt right as rain.↗ · The rain was falling in torrents.↗ · And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.↗ (Torah GEN.7.12, JPS 1917)↗ · the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.↗ (Torah GEN.8.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Then the LORD caused to rain upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; (Torah GEN.19.24, JPS 1917)↗ · Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields; (Writings JOB.5.10, JPS 1917)↗ · He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.↗ (Writings PSA.105.32, JPS 1917)↗ · For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; (Writings SNG.2.11, JPS 1917)↗

rainbow — Everyday, meaning 1: A rainbow is a curved band of colours that appears in the sky when sunlight shines through raindrops.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Anything with many bright colours in bands can be called rainbow, like a rainbow scarf.↗ Example: After the rain we saw a rainbow over the hills.↗ · There are seven colours in a rainbow.↗ · A prism can make a rainbow on the wall.↗ · We saw a double rainbow from the car.↗ · She wore a rainbow T-shirt to school.↗ · You can make a small rainbow with a garden hose on a sunny day.↗ · Red is always on the outside of a rainbow.↗ · The water drops mounted to the clouds and glittered in the rainbow.↗

raincoat — Everyday, meaning 1: A raincoat is a waterproof coat that you wear to keep dry in the rain.↗ Example: Put on your raincoat; it's pouring.↗ · My raincoat has a hood.↗ · We tested which material would make the best raincoat.↗ · Her yellow raincoat kept her dry.↗ · Hang your wet raincoat on the peg.↗ · I forgot my raincoat and got soaked.↗ · Raincoats are made of waterproof material.↗

raindrop — Everyday, meaning 1: A raindrop is a single small drop of water that falls from a cloud as rain.↗ Example: A raindrop landed on my nose.↗ · Raindrops raced down the window.↗ · The first raindrops fell as we reached the car.↗ · Sunlight shining through raindrops makes a rainbow.↗ · Tiny droplets join to make a raindrop heavy enough to fall.↗ · Raindrops are round, not shaped like tears.↗ · We counted raindrops in the puddle.↗ · The leaves were covered with raindrops after the storm.↗

rainfall — Everyday, meaning 1: Rainfall is the amount of rain that falls in a place in some time, like a day, a month or a year.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A rainfall is a fall of rain, a shower.↗ Example: The rainfall in May was 4 inches.↗ · June had 2 inches more rainfall than May.↗ · Find the total rainfall for the three months.↗ · The average daily rainfall was 5 millimeters.↗ · Deserts get very little rainfall.↗ · Rainforests have heavy rainfall almost every day.↗ · We drew a bar chart of the rainfall for each month.↗ · A rain gauge measures rainfall.↗ · The heavy rainfall flooded the field.↗

rainforest — Everyday, meaning 1: A rainforest is a thick forest of tall trees in a place where it rains a lot almost every month.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Most rainforests are tropical, near the equator and hot all year; some are temperate, cooler and wet, like those in New Zealand, Tasmania and the north-west of the USA and Canada.↗ Example: The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world.↗ · Sloths, toucans and jaguars live in the rainforest.↗ · It rains almost every afternoon in a tropical rainforest.↗ · The canopy is the leafy roof of the rainforest.↗ · Very little sunlight reaches the rainforest floor.↗ · We made a model rainforest in a shoebox for our project.↗ · Queensland in Australia has rainforests near the coast.↗ · Cutting down rainforests destroys the homes of many animals.↗