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Rads
- noun - a unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material
- cool or neat
- the unit of plane angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to the angle at the center of a circle subtended by an arc equal in length to the radius (approximately 57.295 degrees)
Rags
- noun - a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
- a small piece of cloth or paper
- a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
- break into lumps before sorting; "rag ore"
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations;
- censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
- harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie"
- music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
- newspaper with half-size pages
- play in ragtime; "rag that old tune"
- treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
Rajs
- noun - British dominion over India (1757-1947)
Rams
- noun - (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries
- a tool for driving or forcing something by impact
- crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked"
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"
- strike or drive against with a heavy impact; "ram the gate with a sledgehammer"; "pound on the door"
- the first sign of the zodiac which the sun enters at the vernal equinox; the sun is in this sign from about March 21 to April 19
- the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible
- uncastrated adult male sheep; "a British term is `tup'"
- undergo damage or destruction on impact; "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car
Raps
- noun - a gentle blow
- a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap"
- genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged
- make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"
- perform rap music
- strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles"
- talk volubly
- the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack"
- the sound made by a gentle blow
- voluble conversation
Rats
- noun - a pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure
- a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'"
- any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
- catch rats, especially with dogs
- desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage
- employ scabs or strike breakers in
- give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat
- give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"
- one who reveals confidential information in return for money
- someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
- take the place of work of someone on strike
Raws
- noun - informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the altogether"; "in his birthday suit"
Rays
- noun - (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point
- a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
- a column of light (as from a beacon)
- a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
- any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish
- cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
- emit as rays; "That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky"
- expose to radiation; "irradiate food"
- extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center; "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"; "This plants radiate spines in all directions"
- John Ray FRS (29 November 1627 – 17 January 1705) was an English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists.
His classification of plants in his Historia Plantarum, was an imp
Rbis
- noun - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season"