Rap vs Rai - What's the difference?
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(countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter II,
(uncountable) Blame (for something).
(informal) A casual talk
(uncountable) Rap music.
A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
* 1845 , (Edgar Allan Poe), "":
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter II,
(dated) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
* Prior
(metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
(ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
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(informal) To talk casually.
Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
* Jonathan Swift
* Mrs. Alexander
A whit; a jot.
A form of from Bedouin shepherds.
* 1991 March-April, David McMurray and Ted Swedenburg, "Rai Tide Rising" in Middle East Report no. 169, page 39 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0899-2851%28199103%2F04%29169%3C39%3ARTR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5]:
* 1997': Karen Fog Olwig & Kirsten Hastrup, ''Siting Culture: The Shifting Anthropological Object — chapter 3: “Which world? On the diffusion of Algerian '''raï to the West” (by Marc Schade-Poulsen),
* 1999 : Marc Schade-Poulsen, Men and Popular Music in Algeria: The Social Significance of Raï ,
* 2003 : Tullia Magrini, Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean — chapter 14: “‘And She Sang a New Song’: Gender and Music on the Sacred Landscapes of the Mediterranean” ,
* 2005 : Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade , p33: §2
As nouns the difference between rap and rai
is that rap is rap, rap music (music style) while rai is a member of an ancient indigenous ethnolinguistic group of nepal.rap
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) rap, rappe, of (etyl) origin, related to (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(wikipedia rap)- The teacher gave the wayward pupil a rap across the knuckles with her ruler.
- He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap . He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he rapped again, a little louder than before.
- You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap .
Synonyms
* (blame) fallDerived terms
* beat the rap * bum rap * rap music * rap song * take the rapEtymology 2
From (etyl) rappen, of (etyl) origin, related to (etyl) .Verb
(rapp)- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, ¶ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, ¶ While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, ¶ As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ¶ "'Tis some visitor", I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — ¶ Only this, and nothing more."
- He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped' at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap. He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he ' rapped again, a little louder than before.
- With one great peal they rap the door.
- ''He started to rap after listening to the Beastie Boys
- He rapped a song to his girlfriend.
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Derived terms
* rap on * rapperSee also
* emcee * hip-hopEtymology 3
Uncertain.Etymology 4
Perhaps contracted from rapparee.Noun
(en noun)- Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps .
- Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap , save with her consent.
- I don't care a rap .
- That's not worth a rap .
Anagrams
* ----rai
English
Noun
(-)- Rai arrives in the US, in some ways, as the latest rage to hit the World Music record bins, the result of a new post-modern global marketing strategy.
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- This chapter deals with raï' music from Algeria. Since its emergence in the late 1970s, '''raï''' has spread throughout the world and stands today as an exponent of “World Music”. The chapter traces a transnational process that has taken place in the 1980s: the diffusion of '''raï''' from the cabarets of Oran (the second largest city of Algeria) to the stereo racks in the West. It evokes the existence of different places and spaces for the consumption of ' raï .
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- In France, raï'’s lack of commercial success was thought to have been caused by hidden French racism and the subsequent de facto absence of '''raï''' on commercial radio and prime-time television. All in all, it did seem difficult to “sell an Arab” to a Western audience, as was the case, for example, with Cheb Mami’s U.S.-recorded album “Let me ' raï ”, released during the Gulf War.
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- The rise of raï' has paralleled the rise of Islamism in Algerian society, despite its mixing the male and female roles of musical production and consumption. Indeed, the paradox is at first glance perplexing because one might expect the critical message of '''raï''' to be anti-Islamist. The rhetoric of '''raï''', however, does not contradict the rise of Islamism in Algeria, and therefore it acquires the potential to complement religious fundamentalism. ' Raï and Islam do not so much occupy the same space as draw a cluster of public discussions and debates about gender into the same discourse (Schade-Poulsen 1996, 148–53; compare Bohlman 2000, 293–96).
- At least three conflicting varieties of Raï drifted in through the open doorway of the bus, blasting from cafés in the square.