rasp

[rasp, rahsp]
verb (used with object)
1.
to scrape or abrade with a rough instrument.
2.
to scrape or rub roughly: The glacier rasped the valley floor.
3.
to grate upon or irritate: The sound rasped his nerves.
4.
to utter with a grating sound: to rasp out an answer.
verb (used without object)
5.
to scrape or grate.
6.
to make a grating sound.
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noun
7.
an act of rasping.
8.
a rasping sound.
9.
a coarse file, used mainly on wood, having separate conical teeth.
10.
(in an insect) a roughened surface used in stridulation.

Origin:
1200–50; Middle English raspen < Old French rasper to scrape, grate < Germanic; see rape3

rasp·ish, adjective
un·rasped, adjective
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rasp1 (rɑːsp) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  a harsh grating noise
2.  a coarse file with rows of raised teeth
 
vb
3.  (tr) to scrape or rub (something) roughly, esp with a rasp; abrade
4.  to utter with or make a harsh grating noise
5.  to irritate (one's nerves or senses); grate (upon)
 
[C16: from Old French raspe, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German raspōn to scrape]
 
'rasper1
 
n
 
'raspish1
 
adj

rasp2 (rɑːsp) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
an informal or Scot word for raspberry

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rasp
c.1300, "to scrape," from M.Du. raspen, O.Fr. rasper "to grate, rasp," from a W.Gmc. source (cf. O.E. gehrespan) akin to the root of raffle (q.v.). Vocalic sense is from 1843. The noun meaning "coarse file" is from 1540s, from M.Fr. raspe, from O.Fr. rasper "to rasp."
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RASP definition

language
["RASP - A Language with Operations on Fuzzy Sets", D.D. Djakovic, Comp Langs 13(3):143-148 (1988)].
(1995-05-10)

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Example sentences
Through the screens of the two half-open windows she can hear a rasp of
  crickets and a dim rush of traffic on the distant thruway.
His voice ravaged by dehydration, he proposed in a halting rasp that they
  attempt to row their way out of the calm.
Rhythmic imagination lies under a soft, woody tone with a bit of a rasp to it.
She's still got some rasp, but her voice is in much better shape now.
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