Rake

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.

   “Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. […] Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.”

2. isim A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
3. isim A type of lockpick that has a ridged or notched blade that moves across the pins in a pin tumbler lock, causing them to settle into a shear line.
4. isim A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.

   “I've been dealing primarily with rake and spaceship interactions for ease of experimentation (a rake will invariably escape before being eaten by even its most hellish progeny, and a spaceship is easy to redraw on the spot).”

5. fiil To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.

   “She is raking the gravel path to keep it even.”

6. fiil Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.

   “The casino is just raking in the cash; it’s like a licence to print money.”

7. fiil Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
8. fiil To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.

   “The cat’s sharp claws raked the side of my face.”

9. fiil Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
10. fiil To search through (thoroughly).

    “The statesman rakes the town to find a plot, / And dreams of forfeitures by treason got.”

11. fiil To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.

    “The enemy machine guns raked the roadway.”

12. fiil To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
13. fiil To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
14. fiil To pick (a lock) with a rake.
15. isim The act of raking.
16. isim A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
17. isim A lot, plenty.

    “Jim has had a rake of trouble with his new car.”

18. isim A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
19. isim A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
20. isim A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.

    “The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches.”

21. isim Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”).
22. fiil Alternative spelling of raik (“(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) to walk; to roam, to wander; of animals (especially sheep): to graze; (transitive, chiefly Scotland) to roam or wander through (somewhere)”)
23. fiil To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
24. fiil Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
25. isim Rate of progress; pace, speed.
26. fiil To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.

    “A mast rakes aft.”

27. fiil To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
28. fiil Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
29. isim A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
30. isim In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).