Raking - English meaning

Raking – definitions in English dictionary

verb
Draw together with a rake or similar implement.
Usage examples:
I was the one who raked the leaves and cut the grass
Synonims:
Scrape up/together Collect Gather
verb
Scratch or scrape (something, especially a person's flesh) with a long sweeping movement.
Usage examples:
Her fingers raked bill's face
Synonims:
Scratch Lacerate Scrape Rasp Graze Abrade Grate Bark Excoriate

verb
Set (something) at a sloping angle.
Usage examples:
The floor is steeply raked

noun
An implement consisting of a pole with a toothed crossbar or fine tines at the end, used especially for drawing together cut grass or smoothing loose soil or gravel.
Usage examples:
Moving the soil surface with a rake in winter will expose many slugs and their eggs to frost damage.

noun
A fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits.
Usage examples:
A merry restoration rake

noun
The angle at which a thing slopes.
Usage examples:
You can adjust the rake of the backrests

noun
The angle of the edge or face of a cutting tool.

noun
A number of railway carriages or wagons coupled together.
Usage examples:
We have converted one locomotive and a rake of coaches to air braking

noun
A herd of colts.

verb
Present participle of rake
Usage examples:
He raked about in the drawer looking for his passport., i've raked through the cupboard but i can't…

Raking translation into English

Raking: translate from English into Chinese

耙, 扫射, 扒

Raking: translate from English into Dutch

Harken, Verzamelen, Rakelen, Zoeken, Opharken, Enfileren, Krabben, Doorsnuffelen, Bijeenschrapen, Schrapen, Aanharken, Uitkammen

Raking: translate from English into French

Ratissage

Raking: translate from English into German

Rechen, Harken, Bestreichen, Schüren, Stöbern, Säubern, Ausräumen, Ansteigen, Sich neigen

Raking: translate from English into Hindi

रेकिंग, ऐयाशी करना, जिनाकार होना

Raking: translate from English into Italian

Rastrellamento, Rastrellare, Raschiare, Grattare

Raking: translate from English into Korean

긁어모으다, 긁어 모으다, 긁다, 기울다, 샅샅이 뒤지다, 굴뚝 따위가 기울어지게 하다, 마스트 따위가 기울어지게 하다, 기울어지게 하다, 굴뚝 따위가 기울다, 마스트 따위가 기울다, 방탕하다, 고무래를 쓰다, 갈퀴를 쓰다, 훑어보다, 대열 따위를 종사하다, 배 따위를 종사하다, 종사하다, 여기저기서 긁어모으다, 고무래로 긁다, 갈퀴 따위로 긁어모으다

Raking: translate from English into Russian

Сгребание, Разгребать, Загребать, Сгребать, Заравнивать граблями, Сметать, Подчищать граблями, Собирать, Тщательно искать, Сгребать граблями, Окидывать взглядом, Чистить скребком, Рыться, Вести распутный образ жизни, Повесничать, Отклоняться от отвесной линии, Обстреливать продольным огнем, Озирать

Raking: translate from English into Spanish

Rastrillar, Barrer, Hurgar, Examinar, Registrar por, Buscar en

Word origin

early 17th century: probably related to German ragen ‘to project’, of unknown ultimate origin; compare with Swedish raka .

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Raking – similar words

raked

verb
Draw together with a rake or similar implement.
Usage examples:
I was the one who raked the leaves and cut the grass

verb
Set (something) at a sloping angle.
Usage examples:
The floor is steeply raked

noun
An implement consisting of a pole with a toothed crossbar or fine tines at the end, used especially for drawing together cut grass or smoothing loose soil or gravel.
Usage examples:
Moving the soil surface with a rake in winter will expose many slugs and their eggs to frost damage.

Raked - all meanings in English

rake

noun
An implement consisting of a pole with a toothed crossbar or fine tines at the end, used especially for drawing together cut grass or smoothing loose soil or gravel.
Usage examples:
Moving the soil surface with a rake in winter will expose many slugs and their eggs to frost damage.

verb
Draw together with a rake or similar implement.
Usage examples:
I was the one who raked the leaves and cut the grass

noun
A fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits.
Usage examples:
A merry restoration rake

Rake - all meanings in English

Raking synonims

abrade

verb
Scrape or wear away by friction or erosion.
Usage examples:
It was a landscape slowly abraded by a fine, stinging dust

Abrade - all meanings in English

bark

noun
The sharp explosive cry of a dog, fox, or seal.
Usage examples:
As i tucked into this steaming bunter-sized platter out on the darkening waters, i swear i heard th…

verb
(of a dog, fox, or seal) give a bark.
Usage examples:
A dog barked at her

verb
Strip the bark from (a tree or piece of wood).
Usage examples:
They had to be barked by hand, you couldn't peel them the way you can newly cut wood

Bark - all meanings in English

collect

verb
Bring or gather together (a number of things).
Usage examples:
He went round the office collecting old coffee cups

adjective
(of a phone call) paid for by the person receiving it.
Usage examples:
A collect call

adverb
(with reference to making a phone call) in a way that is paid for by the person receiving it.
Usage examples:
I called my mother collect

Collect - all meanings in English

excoriate

verb
Damage or remove part of the surface of (the skin).
Usage examples:
The discharge is acrid and excoriates the skin of the nose

verb
To write or say that a play, book, political action, etc. is very bad
Usage examples:
His latest novel received excoriating reviews., the president excoriated the western press for thei…

Excoriate - all meanings in English

gather

verb
Come together; assemble or accumulate.
Usage examples:
As soon as a crowd gathered, the police came

noun
A part of a garment that is gathered.
Usage examples:
This can be accomplished at side seams, the center back seam, gathers, pleats, darts or a combinati…

verb
Assemble or get together

Gather - all meanings in English

grate

verb
Reduce (food) to small shreds by rubbing it on a grater.
Usage examples:
Peel and roughly grate the carrots

noun
The recess of a fireplace or furnace.
Usage examples:
A small coal fire burned in the grate

noun
Reduce to shreds by rubbing against a perforated surface

Grate - all meanings in English

graze

verb
(of cattle, sheep, etc.) eat grass in a field.
Usage examples:
Cattle graze on the open meadows

noun
A slight injury where the skin is scraped.
Usage examples:
Cuts and grazes on the skin

verb
To touch and rub against something while passing it, causing slight damage
Usage examples:
The bullet only grazed his leg., [ i ] cows grazed in the field.

Graze - all meanings in English

lacerate

verb
Tear or make deep cuts in (flesh or skin).
Usage examples:
The point had lacerated his neck

verb
To cut or tear something, esp. flesh
Usage examples:
His face and hands were lacerated by the flying glass., [ c ] justina was treated for a scalp lacer…

Lacerate - all meanings in English

rasp

noun
A harsh, grating noise.
Usage examples:
The rasp of the engine

verb
Make a harsh, grating noise.
Usage examples:
My breath rasped in my throat

Rasp - all meanings in English

scrape

verb
Drag or pull a hard or sharp implement across (a surface or object) so as to remove dirt or other matter.
Usage examples:
Remove the green tops from the carrots and scrape them

noun
An act or sound of scraping.
Usage examples:
He heard the scrape of his mother's key in the lock

verb
Cut the surface of; wear away the surface of

Scrape - all meanings in English

scratch

verb
Score or mark the surface of (something) with a sharp or pointed object.
Usage examples:
The car's paintwork was battered and scratched

noun
A mark or wound made by scratching.
Usage examples:
The scratches on her arm were throbbing

adjective
Assembled or made from whatever is available, and so unlikely to be of the highest quality.
Usage examples:
City were fielding a scratch squad

Scratch - all meanings in English

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