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rape

1 [reyp]

noun, verb, raped, rap⋅ing.

–noun

1.	the unlawful compelling of a woman through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse.

2.	any act of sexual intercourse that is forced upon a person.

3.	statutory rape.

4.	an act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation: the rape of the countryside.

5.	Archaic. the act of seizing and carrying off by force.

–verb (used with object)

6.	to force to have sexual intercourse.

7.	to plunder (a place); despoil.

8.	to seize, take, or carry off by force.

–verb (used without object)

9.	to commit rape.

Origin:
1250–1300; (v.) ME rapen < AF raper < L rapere to seize, carry off by force, plunder; (n.) ME < AF ra(a)p(e), deriv. of raper

Related forms:

rap⋅a⋅ble, rape⋅a⋅ble, adjective

rapist, raper, noun

rape

2 [reyp]

–noun

a plant, Brassica napus, of the mustard family, whose leaves are used for food for hogs, sheep, etc., and whose seeds yield rape oil.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME (< MF) < L rāpum (neut.), rāpa (fem.) turnip; c. Gk rhápys

rape

3 [reyp]

–noun

the residue of grapes, after the juice has been extracted, used as a filter in making vinegar.

Origin:
1590–1600; < F râpe < Gmc; cf. OHG raspōn to scrape

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rape¹ (rāp)

The crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse.
The act of seizing and carrying off by force; abduction.
Abusive or improper treatment; violation: a rape of justice.

tr.v. raped, rap·ing, rapes

To force (another person) to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse; commit rape on.
To seize and carry off by force.
To plunder or pillage.

[Middle English, from rapen, to rape, from Old French raper, to abduct, from Latin rapere, to seize; see rep- in Indo-European roots.]
rap'er n.

rape² (rāp)

n. A European plant (Brassica napus) of the mustard family, cultivated as fodder and for its seed that yields a valuable oil. Also called colza, oil-seed rape.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin rāpa, pl. of rāpum, turnip.]

rape³ (rāp)

n. The refuse of grapes left after the extraction of the juice in winemaking.

[French râpe, grape stalk, from Old French, from rasper, to scrape; see rasp.]

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Rape

Rape\ (r[=a]p), n. [F. r[^a]pe a grape stalk.]

1. Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster. --Ray.

2. The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.

3. A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.

Rape wine, a poor, thin wine made from the last dregs of pressed grapes.

Rape

Rape\, n. [Akin to rap to snatch, but confused with L. rapere. See Rap to snatch.]

1. The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.

And ruined orphans of thy rapes complain. --Sandys.

2. (Law) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.

3. That which is snatched away. [Obs.]

Where now are all my hopes? O, never more. Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore. --Sandys.

4. Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry. [Obs.]

Rape

Rape\, v. t. To commit rape upon; to ravish.

To rape and ren. See under Rap, v. t., to snatch.

Rape

Rape\, v. i. To rob; to pillage. [Obs.] --Heywood.

Rape

Rape\, n. [Icel. hreppr village, district; cf. Icel. hreppa to catch, obtain, AS. hrepian, hreppan, to touch.] One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.

Rape

Rape\, n. [L. rapa, rapum, akin to Gr. ?, ?, G. r["u]be.] (Bot.) A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.

Note: These plants, with the edible turnip, have been variously named, but are all now believed to be derived from the Brassica campestris of Europe, which by some is not considered distinct from the wild stock (B. oleracea) of the cabbage. See Cole.

Broom rape. (Bot.) See Broom rape, in the Vocabulary.

Rape cake, the refuse remaining after the oil has been expressed from the seed.

Rape root. Same as Rape.

Summer rape. (Bot.) See Colza.

Language Translation for : rape

Spanish: violación,

German: die Vergewaltigung,

Japanese: 強姦

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rape

vt.
1. To screw someone or something, violently; in particular, to destroy a program or information irrecoverably. Often used in describing file-system damage. "So-and-so was running a program that did absolute disk I/O and ended up raping the master directory."
2. To strip a piece of hardware for parts.
3. [CMU/Pitt] To mass-copy files from an anonymous ftp site. "Last night I raped Simtel's dskutl directory."

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rape (v.)

c.1386, "seize prey, take by force," from Anglo-Fr. raper, O.Fr. raper "to seize, abduct," a legal term, from L. rapere "seize, carry off by force, abduct" (see rapid). L. rapere was used for "sexual violation," but only very rarely; the usual L. word being stuprum, lit. "disgrace." Sense of "sexual violation or ravishing of a woman" first recorded in Eng. as a noun, 1481 (the noun sense of "taking anything -- including a woman -- away by force" is from c.1400). The verb in this sense is from 1577. Rapist is from 1883.

rape (n.)

"kind of plant" (Brassica napus), c.1390, from O.Fr. rape, from L. rapa, rapum "turnip," from PIE *rap- (cf. Gk. hrapys "rape," O.C.S. repa, Lith. rope, M.Du. roeve, O.H.G. ruoba, Ger. Rübe "rape, turnip"). Usually grown for sheep, an oil is made from it.

Main Entry: rape
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: raped; rap·ing
Etymology: Latin rapere to seize and take away by force
: to commit rape on —rap·er noun —rap·ist noun

Main Entry: rape
Function: noun
: unlawful sexual activity and usually sexual intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury against the will usually of a female or with a person who is beneath a certain age or incapable of valid consent because of mental illness, mental deficiency, intoxication, unconsciousness, or deception —see also STATUTORY RAPE
NOTE: The common-law crime of rape involved a man having carnal knowledge of a woman not his wife through force and against her will, and required at least slight penetration of the penis into the vagina. While some states maintain essentially this definition of rape, most have broadened its scope esp. in terms of the sex of the persons and the nature of the acts involved. Marital status is usually irrelevant. Moreover, the crime is codified under various names, including first degree sexual assault sexual battery unlawful sexual intercourse, and first degree sexual abuse.

Main Entry: ¹rape
Pronunciation: 'rAp
Function: noun
: a European herb (Brassica napus) of the mustard family grown as a forage crop forsheep and hogs and for its seeds which yield rapeseed oil and are a bird food —see CANOLA 1

Main Entry: ²rape
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: raped; rap·ing
: to commit rape on

Main Entry: ³rape
Function: noun
1 : sexual intercourse with a woman by a man without her consent and chiefly by force or deception —see STATUTORY RAPE
2 : unlawful sexual intercourse by force or threat other than by a man with a woman

rape (rāp)
n.
The crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse. v. raped, rap·ing, rapes
To commit rape on.

rap'ist n.

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