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noun
- A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting grass or debris, or for loosening soil.
- (Ireland / idiomatic) a lot, plenty.
- Jim has had a rake of trouble with his new car.
verb (rak, ing)
- jut out (ship"s bow or stern above keel)
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noun (ranches)
- A large plot of land used for raising cattle, sheep, or other livestock.
- A small farm that cultivates vegetables or livestock (used primarily in some localities of the western United States (including California).
- A house or property on a ranch land.
- A type of salad dressing.
verb (ranch, es)
- To operate or work on a ranch; to engage in ranching.
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verb (reaps, reaping, reaped)
- To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
- To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.
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noun
- One who reaps.
- A machine used to harvest crops.
- Reaper Shortened form of "The Grim Reaper", the angel of death.
- Don't fear the Reaper,/ We'll be able to fly. — Lyrics from Don't Fear the Reaper by w:Blue í�yster Cult, Blue í�yster Cult
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abbreviation - (computing) w:Representational State Transfer, Representational State Transfer
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proper noun
- (given name, male); diminutive of Richard.
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noun
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that absorbs water and nutrients.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- source, Source.
- The love of money is the of all evil
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specify, specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- The cube of 27 is 3.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- Multiply by 2.
- (analysis) A zero (of a function).
- (context, graphtheory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (italbrac, philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure.
- (computing) The person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
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verb
- To rummage, to search as if by digging in soil, to root out.
- To cheer to show support for a sports team, etc.
- 1908, w:Jack Norworth, Jack Norworth, w:Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Take Me Out to the Ball Game
- : Let me , , for the home team,
- (italbrac, Australian coarse slang) To have sexual intercourse.
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noun
- the act of turning around a centre or an axis
- a single complete cycle of such a turning
- (mathematics) a transformation of a coordinate system by rotating the axes around the origin
- a regular variation in a sequence, such as crop rotation
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