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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rapt \Rapt\ (r[a^]pt),
imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rapt \Rapt\, a.
1. Snatched away; hurried away or along.
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Waters rapt with whirling away. --Spenser.
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2. Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.;
enraptured. "The rapt musician." --Longfellow.
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3. Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation.
"Rapt in secret studies." --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rapt \Rapt\, n. [From F. rapt abduction, rape, L. raptus, fr.
rapere to seize and carry off, to transport; or fr. E. rapt,
a. See Rapt, a., and Rapid.]
1. An ecstasy; a trance. [Obs.] --Bp. Morton.
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2. Rapidity. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
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Rapt \Rapt\, v. t.
1. To transport or ravish. [Obs.] --Drayton.
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2. To carry away by force. [Obs.] --Daniel.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
rapt
adj 1: deeply moved; "sat completely still, enraptured by the
music"; "listened with rapt admiration"; "rapt in
reverie" [syn: enraptured, captive]
2: wholly absorbed as in thought; "deep in thought"; "that
engrossed look or rapt delight"; "the book had her totally
engrossed"; "enwrapped in dreams"; "so intent on this
fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"- Walter de
la Mare; "rapt with wonder"; "wrapped in thought" [syn: absorbed,
engrossed, enwrapped, intent, wrapped]
WordNet (r) 2.0
161 Moby Thesaurus words for "rapt":
absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, arrested, assiduous,
beatific, bemused, bewitched, blissful, buried in thought,
bursting with happiness, captivated, carried away, castle-building,
caught, charmed, constant, continuing, daydreaming, daydreamy,
deep, delighted, diligent, dogged, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing,
ecstatic, elate, elated, elsewhere, enchanted, enduring, engaged,
engaged in thought, engrossed, engrossed in thought, enraptured,
enravished, enthralled, entranced, exalted, exultant, faithful,
faraway, fascinated, fixed, flushed, freaked out, gripped,
half-awake, happy, held, high, hypnotized, immersed,
immersed in thought, immutable, imparadised, in a reverie,
in ecstasies, in heaven, in paradise, in raptures,
in seventh heaven, in the clouds, inalterable, indefatigable,
indomitable, industrious, insistent, introspective, invincible,
joyful, joyous, jubilant, lasting, lost, lost in thought, loyal,
meditative, mesmerized, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing,
napping, never-tiring, nodding, oblivious, obstinate, occupied,
on cloud nine, overjoyed, overjoyful, patient, patient as Job,
pensive, permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent,
persisting, pertinacious, pipe-dreaming, plodding, plugging,
possessed, preoccupied, raptured, rapturous, ravished, relentless,
resolute, rhapsodic, sedulous, sent, single-minded, sleepless,
slogging, somewhere else, spellbound, stable, stargazing,
steadfast, steady, stubborn, taken up, tenacious, tireless,
transported, unabating, unconquerable, unconscious, undaunted,
undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging,
unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing,
unrelenting, unremitting, unsleeping, unswerving, untiring,
unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive,
weariless, woolgathering, wrapped, wrapped in thought,
wrapped up
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
RAPT
["An Interpreter for a Language for Describing Assemblies",
R.J. Popplestone et al, Artif Intell 14:79-107 (1980)].
(1995-05-10)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
absorbed, captive, engrossed, enraptured, enwrapped, intent, wrapped
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