raid
IPA: rˈeɪd
noun
- (military) A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
- An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.
- (sports) An attacking movement.
- (Internet) An activity initiated at or towards the end of a live broadcast by the broadcaster that sends its viewers to a different broadcast, primarily intended to boost the viewership of the receiving broadcaster. This is frequently accompanied by a message in the form of a hashtag that is posted in the broadcast's chat by the viewers.
- (online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
- (computing) Acronym of Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or Independent) Disks.
verb
- (transitive) To engage in a raid against.
- (transitive) To lure from another; to entice away from.
- (transitive) To indulge oneself by taking from.
Advertisement
Examples of "raid" in Sentences
- The raid was the main cause of the war.
- It was the raid in the gulf of Honduras.
- He was the navigating officer for the raid.
- The raid was widely denounced in the media.
- The raid succeeds in obliterating the factory.
- News of the raid caused uproar in the colonies.
- After the raid, the fountain is left a shambles.
- Police raided the gallery and confiscated the works.
- After the failure of this raid, the Commando was disbanded.
- It endured the first daylight raid of the war and the last piloted air raid.
Advertisement
Advertisement