📖 R — The English dictionary · page 8

raven — Everyday, meaning 1: A very large black bird of the crow family, with a deep croaking call and a thick beak.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: adjective (of hair) Shiny black: raven hair.↗ Example: A raven croaked from the top of the castle.↗ · Ravens are among the cleverest birds.↗ · Legend says six ravens must stay at the Tower of London.↗ · In the Bible, ravens brought Elijah bread and meat.↗ · The princess had long raven hair.↗ · Noah sent out a raven to look for dry land.↗ · But the raven shook his head.↗ · and every raven after its kinds; (Torah DEU.14.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.↗ (Torah GEN.8.7, JPS 1917)↗ · They open wide their mouth against me, as a ravening and a roaring lion.↗ (Writings PSA.22.14, JPS 1917)↗ · He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.↗ (Writings PSA.147.9, JPS 1917)↗ · His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are curled, and black as a raven.↗ (Writings SNG.5.11, JPS 1917)↗

ravenous — Everyday, meaning 1: Very, very hungry, so hungry that you could eat a great deal.↗ Example: After the long walk we were ravenous.↗ · He was ravenous and ate two bowls of soup.↗ · The wolf was ravenous and looked for food.↗ · His trouble shall be ravenous, and calamity shall be ready for his fall.↗ (Writings JOB.18.12, JPS 1917)↗ · As a roaring lion, and a ravenous bear; so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.↗ (Writings PRO.28.15, JPS 1917)↗ · No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up thereon, they shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there; (Prophets ISA.35.9, JPS 1917)↗

ravine — Everyday, meaning 1: A deep, narrow valley with steep sides, usually cut by a stream or river over a long time.↗ Example: A rope bridge crossed the deep ravine.↗ · The stream has cut a ravine through the rock over thousands of years.↗ · The goat climbed down the side of the ravine.↗ · Stay on the path; the ravine edge is dangerous.↗ · In the story, the dragon lived at the bottom of a ravine.↗ · Ferns grew in the damp shade of the ravine.↗ · He was soon upon the edge of the ravine.↗

ravish — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To seize a woman by force and violate her.↗ (Old English also meant to carry off or enchant.).↗ Example: They have ravished the women in Zion, the maidens in the cities of Judah.↗ (Writings LAM.5.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien?↗ (Writings PRO.5.20, JPS 1917)↗ · Their babes also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.↗ (Prophets ISA.13.16, JPS 1917)↗

raw — Everyday, meaning 1: Raw food is not cooked.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Raw materials are things in their natural state before they are made into something, like raw cotton or crude oil.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Raw skin is red and sore, as if rubbed.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Raw feelings are strong and painful.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Raw weather is cold and damp.↗ Example: Never eat raw chicken.↗ · Carrots can be eaten raw or cooked.↗ · Wash your hands after touching raw meat.↗ · Wood is a raw material for paper.↗ · My heel was rubbed raw by my new shoes.↗ · It was a raw, windy day at the beach.↗ · Scientists collected raw data and then made a graph.↗ · They gave him a little piece of raw meat.↗ · But whensoever raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.↗ (Torah LEV.13.14, JPS 1917)↗ · But if the raw flesh again be turned into white, then he shall come unto the priest; (Torah LEV.13.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And the priest shall look on the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean; the raw flesh is unclean: it is leprosy.↗ (Torah LEV.13.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will sweep it away with a whirlwind, the raw and the burning alike.↗ (Writings PSA.58.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Yea, before the fat was made to smoke, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed: 'Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.2.15, JPS 1917)↗

rawhide — Everyday, meaning 1: Animal skin that has been dried but not tanned, used to make ropes, whips and chews.↗ Example: The cowboy tied the horse with a rawhide rope.↗ · The dog chewed a rawhide bone.↗ · He drank from the brook after he untied the rawhide.↗

ray — Everyday, meaning 1: A ray is a thin line or beam of light or heat coming from something bright, like the Sun.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A ray is a flat sea fish with wide fins like wings and a long thin tail, such as a stingray or manta ray.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In maths, a ray is part of a line that starts at one point and goes on forever in one direction.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A ray of hope is a small sign that things may get better.↗ Example: The first rays of sunlight came through the curtains.↗ · UV rays can burn your skin even on a cloudy day.↗ · The doctor took an X-ray of my broken wrist.↗ · We saw a huge ray gliding under the boat.↗ · Draw a ray starting at point A and passing through point B.↗ · Two rays with the same endpoint make an angle.↗ · Her smile was a ray of hope in a bad week.↗ · Never touch the tail of a stingray.↗ · The Sun's rays grew warmer and warmer.↗ · And a brightness appeareth as the light; rays hath He at His side; and there is the hiding of His power.↗ (Prophets HAB.3.4, JPS 1917)↗

razed — Everyday, meaning 1: To raze a building is to pull it down or knock it flat, so that it is levelled with the ground.↗ Example: The fire razed the barn to the ground.↗ · The hut was razed to the ground.↗ · The soldiers razed the old walls.↗

razor — Everyday, meaning 1: A razor is a tool with a very sharp blade used to shave hair off the face, legs or head.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An electric razor is a small machine that shaves hair with moving blades.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Razor-sharp» describes something extremely sharp, or a very quick, clever mind.↗ Example: Dad shaves his chin with a razor every morning.↗ · Keep the razor in the high cupboard away from the baby.↗ · Mum bought a new electric razor.↗ · The shark had razor-sharp teeth.↗ · The razor blade is thin and very sharp.↗ · Never play with a razor; it can cut you badly.↗ · She has a razor-sharp memory for facts.↗ · The barber used a razor to tidy the back of his neck.↗ · At last he jumped up, and caught the razor out of the barber’s hand, exclaiming:↗ · And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of purification upon them, and let them cause a razor to pass over all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.↗ (Torah NUM.8.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy tongue deviseth destruction; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.↗ (Writings PSA.52.4, JPS 1917)↗

re — Everyday, meaning 1: Re means «about» or «on the subject of», used at the top of letters and emails.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The prefix re- means «again» or «back», as in redo, rewrite, return.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Re is the second note of the musical scale do, re, mi.↗ Example: The email subject said «Re: football practice».↗ · Re your question, the trip is on Friday.↗ · Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do.↗ · Rewrite means write again.↗ · If you reheat soup, you heat it again.↗ · Please reread the instructions carefully.↗ · Replay the video to see the goal again.↗ · iiifle, figuring the double letters re: -;.r and the "i or the )' as lourteen letters.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · As such a view is entirely re- pugnant to the modern critical raind, some writers regard this closing Mishnah as a later interpolation.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

reabsorb — Everyday, meaning 1: To take something back in again after it has come out or been given off, like a sponge soaking up water again.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) For the body to take a substance back into the blood, as the kidneys reabsorb water and sugar.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To bring people or things back into a group or system they left.↗ Example: The kidneys reabsorb most of the water back into the blood.↗ · The sponge dried out, but it reabsorbed the water when I dunked it again.↗ · A bruise fades as the body reabsorbs the blood under the skin.↗ · After the flood, the soil slowly reabsorbed the water.↗ · The workers were reabsorbed into the main factory.↗ · Some of the heat is reabsorbed by the ground.↗

reach — Everyday, meaning 1: To reach is to get to a place: the train reached the city.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To reach is to stretch your arm to touch or take something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: If you reach a goal or an amount, you get there: reach 100 points.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To reach someone is to contact them, like by phone.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Your reach is how far you can stretch; «out of reach» means too far to touch.↗ Example: She needs 20 more points to reach 100.↗ · The train reached the city after 3 hours.↗ · How many more steps to reach the top?↗ · He saved until he reached $50.↗ · I can't reach the top shelf.↗ · Keep medicines out of reach of children.↗ · Sunlight takes about 8 minutes to reach Earth.↗ · I tried to reach Grandma by phone.↗ · Reach for the stars!↗ · At last he reached the place.↗ · And thou shalt put it under the ledge round the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.↗ (Torah EXO.27.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And he made for the altar a grating of network of brass, under the ledge round it beneath, reaching halfway up.↗ (Torah EXO.38.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach.↗ (Torah EXO.28.42, JPS 1917)↗ · Sharp wounds cleanse away evil; so do stripes that reach the inward parts.↗ (Writings PRO.20.30, JPS 1917)↗ · and Allam-melech, and Amad, and Mishal; and it reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-libnath.↗ (Prophets JOS.19.26, JPS 1917)↗ · Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; (Writings JOB.20.6, JPS 1917)↗

reachable — Everyday, meaning 1: Reachable means able to be reached: close enough to get to or touch.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A reachable person is someone you can contact, for example by phone.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A reachable goal is one you can achieve.↗ Example: The cookie jar is not reachable from the floor.↗ · Keep the phone reachable in case of emergency.↗ · The island is reachable only by boat.↗ · Set yourself a reachable goal for this week.↗ · Is the top shelf reachable with a step stool?↗ · Keep sharp knives out of reachable places for toddlers.↗

reachest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «reachest» means «you reach», a form of «reach»: To reach is to get to a place: the train reached the city.↗ Example: ‘“Take that path,” said he, “that leads to the head of this grassy glade, and go up the wood till thou reachest the top.↗ (The Lilac Fairy Book) · But to-night thou must sleep in the this castle, and in the morning see that thou rise early and follow the road upwards through the valley, until thou reachest a wood.↗ (The Lilac Fairy Book)

reacheth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «reacheth» means «reaches», a form of «reach»: To reach is to get to a place: the train reached the city.↗ Example: We have shot at them — Heshbon is perished — even unto Dibon, and we have laid waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.↗ (Torah NUM.21.30, JPS 1917)

react — Everyday, meaning 1: To act, speak or feel in a certain way because of something that has happened (How did she react to the news?).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) To change when mixed with another substance, making something new (chemical reaction).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (health) To become ill or get a rash after eating, touching or breathing something (an allergic reaction).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: React against: to do the opposite of what you are told or what others do.↗ Example: How did your mum react when you told her?↗ · Vinegar reacts with baking soda and fizzes.↗ · He reacted quickly and caught the falling glass.↗ · Some people react to peanuts and need medicine fast.↗ · Don't react angrily — count to ten first.↗ · Iron reacts with water and air to make rust.↗ · The cat reacted to the noise by hiding under the bed.↗

reaction — Everyday, meaning 1: What someone says, does or feels because of something that has happened: her reaction to the news was a big smile.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In science, a chemical reaction is when substances change into new substances, like vinegar and bicarbonate of soda fizzing.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An allergic reaction is when the body responds badly to something, such as nuts or a bee sting.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: How quickly you respond: fast reactions.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In forces, a reaction is the push back in the opposite direction.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A reaction can also be a movement that turns back against a change or an earlier way of doing things.↗ Example: What was your reaction when you saw the surprise?↗ · Mixing vinegar and baking soda causes a fizzy reaction.↗ · She had an allergic reaction to the peanuts.↗ · Rusting is a slow chemical reaction.↗ · Goalkeepers need fast reactions.↗ · His reaction was to burst out laughing.↗ · We measured our reaction times with a falling ruler.↗ · The fizzing told us a reaction was happening.↗ · When the Hindu reaction against Buddhism came, the Brahmins adapted these, with the omission of Buddha as the central figure.↗