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Raid
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- 1 A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
"Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid, the morning fight."
- 2 Acronym of Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or Independent) Disks. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 3 an attempt by speculators to defraud investors wordnet
- 4 An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.
"a police raid of a narcotics factory"
- 5 Initialism of risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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- 6 a sudden short attack wordnet
- 7 An attacking movement.
"The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians."
- 8 An activity initiated at or towards the end of a live broadcast by the broadcaster that sends its viewers to a different broadcast, primarily intended to boost the viewership of the receiving broadcaster. This is frequently accompanied by a message in the form of a hashtag that is posted in the broadcast's chat by the viewers. Internet
"Now that Twitch is making raids an official part of the platform, however, some streamers think the new feature will make it easier to participate in the positive aspects of raiding."
- 9 A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy. Internet
- 10 An event involving a group of users, often using bots and scripts, who join a server to harm it or harass its members.
"I used the tools discord gave me to prevent raids but he somehow knows a bypass, I use bots and they do help prevent it but just having him ping 90 guys once makes people bash me for an entire hour."
- 1 To engage in a raid against. transitive
"The police raided the gambling den."
- 2 search for something needed or desired wordnet
- 3 To lure from another; to entice away from. transitive
- 4 enter someone else's territory and take spoils wordnet
- 5 To indulge oneself by taking from. transitive
"I raided the fridge for snacks."
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- 6 take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock wordnet
- 7 search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on wordnet
Etymology
From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).
From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).
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