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  1. rap
    Rapid, rhythmic chant over a pre-recorded repetitive backing track. Rap emerged in New York in 1979 as part of the hip-hop culture, although the macho, swaggering lyrics with which it started have their roots in ritual boasts and insults. During the 1990s rap became increasingly commercial, and even...
    Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0015206.html

  2. RAP
    acronym: Remedial Action Program (DOE)
    Found op http://cdiac.ornl.gov/pns/acronyms.html#R

  3. rap
    [Adjective] A style of music where words are spoken in rhythm rather than sung.
    Example: The concert featured a new, popular rap artist.

    Found op http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary/

  4. rap
    [n] - a gentle blow 2. [n] - (informal) voluble conversation 3. [n] - genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment 4. [v] - perform rap music 5. [v] - strike sharply 6. [v] - talk volubly
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=rap

  5. RAP
    Rapid Application Prototyping
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php

  6. Rap
    To perform a spoken rhythmic part to a music or percussion performance.
    Found op http://www.testing1212.co.uk/a.htm

  7. RAP
    Recognised Air Picture
    Found op http://www.raf.mod.uk/glossary.cfm

  8. RAP
    Rocket Assisted Projectile
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php

  9. RAP
    Series of blast-type anti-personnel mines [RH]
    Found op http://www.jedsite.info/index.html

  10. Rap
    a form of oral poetry which has a very strong rhythm and rapid pace. Associated with Caribbean and Afro-Caribbean cultures, has now been assimilated into other literary traditions. Rap is often used in modern music.
    Found op http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/publications/literacy/63285/nls_fw

  11. rap
    Oncogene related to ras > ras.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php

  12. Rap
    Rap (răp) noun [ Etymol. uncertain.] A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. Knight.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/11



  1. Rap
    Rap intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Rapped (răpt); present participle & verbal noun Rapping .] [ Akin to Swedish rappa to strike, rapp stroke, Danish ...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/11

  2. Rap
    Rap transitive verb 1. To strike with a quick blow; to knock on. « With one great peal they rap the door.» Prior. 2. (Founding) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to fac...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/11

  3. Rap
    Rap noun A quick, smart blow; a knock.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/11

  4. Rap
    Rap transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Rapped (răpt), usually written Rapt ; present participle & verbal noun Rapping .] [ Middle English rapen ; akin to LG. ...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/11

  5. Rap
    Rap noun [ Perhaps contr. from raparee .] A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value. « Many counterfeits passed about under the ...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/11

  6. rap
    <oncogene> Oncogene related to ras. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?rap

  7. rap
    hip-hop noun 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
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=rap

  8. rap
    noun a gentle blow
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=rap

  9. rap
    knock verb make light, repeated taps on a surface; `he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=rap

  10. Rap
    • (v.) To hasten. • (v. t.) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on. • (v. t.) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal. • (n.) A quick, smart blow; a knock. • (v. i.) To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to r...
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/rap/

  11. RAP
    See: Regulatory accounting procedures
    Found op http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg/bfglosr.htm

  12. RAP
    Retained Access Power
    Found op http://www3.sympatico.ca/dhaughey/j1930.htm

  13. rap
    1. a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
    2. a gentle blow
    3. the sound made by a gentle blow
    4. (informal) voluble conversation
    5. the act of hitting vigorously

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