raid Definition
raid (rād)
noun
- a sudden, hostile attack, esp. by troops, military aircraft, etc., or by armed, usually mounted, bandits intent on looting
- any act or instance of entering to remove or capture something a midnight raid on a refrigerator
- any sudden invasion of a place, as by police, for discovering and dealing with violations of the law
- ☆ an attempt, as by a business concern, to lure employees from a competitor
- a deliberate attempt by one or more speculators to cause a quick, unexpected fall in stock market prices
Etymology: North Eng var. of road, preserving etym. sense, “a riding”: used orig. of an incursion along the border
transitive verb, intransitive verb
to make a raid or raids (on)
raid Related Forms
raid′er noun
raid Synonyms
raid
n.
raid Synonyms
raid
v.
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks or Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) Telecom Definition
A storage technology that distributes data across a group of physically separate hard drives configured as a single logical memory unit. As RAID stores all data on redundant drives, it provides a considerable level of fault tolerance. RAID may involve drives on multiple servers in a cluster connected via a storage area network (SAN). A simpler and less expensive approach is known as just a bunch of disks (JBOD), which essentially is a bunch of disk drivers not configured as a RAID. See also JBOD, SAN, and server.
raid Usage Examples
Converse of object
- bungle: Anger mounting at bungled police raid ANGER IS still mounting at the police dawn raid in Forest Gate.
- mount: The most terrifying was probably the chevauchée, or mounted raid, carried out by the English.
- condemn: Demonstrations against the Bombing In Gaza and the West Bank, hundreds of Palestinians marched in solidarity with Iraq to condemn the air raids.
Adjective modifier
- daring: Story of the daring raids that saw the award of 11 Victoria Crosses.
- cross-border: The Sinai Campaign Throughout 1956, cross-border terrorist raids into Israel became increasingly common.
- nightly: On 23 August came the start of the Blitz, building up to a terrible autumn of heavy, nightly raids.
- smash-and-grab: Frustration was the order of the day as Halesowen went top following their smash-and-grab raid for the points.
- Israeli: The strike marked the fifth straight night of Israeli air raids on Gaza.
- allied: His first rocket launching base - the Blockhaus north of Saint-Omer - had been crippled by Allied bombing raids.
Modifies a noun
- siren: Air raid sirens rang in Basra city around the time of the attack.
- shelter: There were a lot of air raid shelters around the village.
- warden: Air raid wardens were recruited from men too old to fight at the front.
- precaution: Open This page from an air raid precaution book had instruction for building an Anderson Shelter.
- warning: Return to the top of the page Jul 1939 Government issues advice on air raid warnings The Government issued advice about air raid warnings.
Noun used with modifier
- bombing: The first bombing raid against Tokyo occurred on November 24 th.
- dawn: The men were arrested in the dawn raids on Tuesday.
- air: Due to the air raids, business has suffered here in the Coconut Grove " .
- Viking: The first Viking raid was on Lindisfarne, recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
- anti-terror: The police watchdog is to conduct a second inquiry into Scotland Yard's controversial Forest Gate anti-terror raid, it has been confirmed.
- daylight: US air force began daylight raids on Berlin March 4, 1944.
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