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What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.
Agnes Smedley

Meaning of "raking" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF RAKING

raking  [ˈreɪkɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RAKING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Raking is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES RAKING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rake

Rake may refer to: ▪ Rake, a horticultural implement, a long-handled tool with tines ▪ Rake or hay rake, a farm implement ▪ Rake, the caster angle of a bicycle or motorcycle ▪ Rake angle, a parameter in machining and cutting geometry ▪ Rake, a cellular automaton pattern that moves while regularly emitting spaceships ▪ Rake, a man habituated to immoral conduct ▪ Rake, the commission taken by a casino when hosting a poker game ▪ Rake, the angle between a feature on a bedding plane and the strike line in geology ▪ Rake receiver, a radio receiver ▪ Rake, a variant of the make program coded in the Ruby programming language ▪ Rake, a physical railway train made up of coaches, or a coupled group of coaches ▪ Rake, the artificial slope of a theatre stage ▪ The Rake, a short story about a cryptid named The Rake that mauls people in their sleep...

Definition of raking in the English dictionary

The definition of raking in the dictionary is the offence committed when a player deliberately scrapes an opponent's leg, arm, etc, with the studs of his or her boots.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RAKING


aerobraking
ˈɛərəʊˌbreɪkɪŋ
backbreaking
ˈbækˌbreɪkɪŋ
baking
ˈbeɪkɪŋ
barnsbreaking
ˈbɑːnzˌbreɪkɪŋ
braking
ˈbreɪkɪŋ
breaking
ˈbreɪkɪŋ
heartbreaking
ˈhɑːtˌbreɪkɪŋ
housebreaking
ˈhaʊsˌbreɪkɪŋ
icebreaking
ˈaɪsˌbreɪkɪŋ
jawbreaking
ˈdʒɔːˌbreɪkɪŋ
law-breaking
ˈlɔːbreɪkɪŋ
making
ˈmeɪkɪŋ
moonraking
ˈmuːnˌreɪkɪŋ
muck-raking
ˈmʌkreɪkɪŋ
path-breaking
ˈpɑːθˌbreɪkɪŋ
record-breaking
ˈrɛkɔːdˈbreɪkɪŋ
shopbreaking
ˈʃɒpˌbreɪkɪŋ
strike-breaking
ˈstraɪkˌbreɪkɪŋ
taking
ˈteɪkɪŋ
vraicking
ˈvreɪkɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RAKING

rake
rake in
rake up
rake-off
raked
rakee
rakehell
rakehelly
raker
rakery
rakeshame
raki
rakish
rakishly
rakishness
rakshasa
raku
rale
Raleigh
rall.

WORDS THAT END LIKE RAKING

banking
breathtaking
English-speaking
freaking
ground-breaking
home baking
homemaking
in a manner of speaking
in the making
matchmaking
money-making
phreaking
policy-making
printmaking
public speaking
sneaking
soaking
speaking
undertaking
waking
winemaking

Synonyms and antonyms of raking in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «RAKING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «raking» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of raking

Translation of «raking» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RAKING

Find out the translation of raking to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of raking from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «raking» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

rastrillar
570 millions of speakers

English

raking
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

raking
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نبش
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сгребать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

raking
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

raking
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ratissage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Raking
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rechen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

速い
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

긁어
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Raking
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cào
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிளறி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Raking
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yan yatan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rastrellando
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

grabienie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

згрібати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

greblat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τσουγκράνα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hark
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

håva
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

raking
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of raking

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RAKING»

The term «raking» is quite widely used and occupies the 46.185 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RAKING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «raking» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «raking» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about raking

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4 QUOTES WITH «RAKING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word raking.
1
Chuck Close
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
2
Marcelene Cox
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
3
Jeff Goodell
Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005 - twice as much as wheat subsidies and four times as much as soybeans. Ethanol itself is propped up by hefty subsidies, including a fifty-one-cent-per-gallon tax allowance for refiners.
4
Agnes Smedley
What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RAKING»

Discover the use of raking in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to raking and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Raking: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Use in Literature RakingBut our batteries are raking them horribly.ndash;Joseph A. Altsheler in The Rock of Chickamauga.Cannon and rifles raked the woods and thickets, and at many points the Union attack was driven back.ndash;Joseph A. ...
‎2008
2
Raking The Ashes
Lovers, colleagues, family - Tilly has always been brilliant at pushing people in and out of her life exactly as it suits her.
Anne Fine, 2010
3
Beyond Leaf Raking: Learning to Serve/Serving to Learn
Beyond Leaf Raking shows you how to integrate service-learning into youth ministry and to measure its impact on youth.
Peter L. Benson, Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, 1993
4
Building Construction
6.13. RAKING BOND This bond is used in thick walls. In this type of bond, the bonding bricks are kept at an inclination to the direction of the wall. Due to this, the longitudinal stability of thick wall built in English bond is very much increased.
B.C. Punmia; Ashok Kumar Jain; Arun Kumar Jain, 2005
5
Atkins' Automaton, or self-raking reaper and mower invented ...
Jearum ATKINS. 15 an oat field of \V. L. Wnnu'orv. Esq., and extensive notice given. but unfortunately the day selected was the only stormy one for several consecutive weeks. A hard rain the who 0 night and forenoon of the day appointed, ...
Jearum ATKINS, 1853
6
Raking The Hollow Bones
Bryan Tso Jones's poems have appeared in the Connecticut Review, Crab Orchard Review, the Literary Review, and the Minnesota Review, among others.
Brian Tso Jones, 2008
7
Damn! Why Didn't I Write That?: How Ordinary People are ...
This guide, by best-selling author Marc McCutcheon, shows the reader how to get in on the action by identifying lucrative publishing niches and filling them, not once, not twice, but year after year.
Marc McCutcheon, 2006
8
Intermountain Alfalfa Management
Raking The purpose of raking is to expedite the drying process by transferring the alfalfa to drier soil and inverting the windrow. Inversion exposes alfalfa on the bottom of the windrow, which at this point has a higher moisture content than that  ...
Steve B. Orloff, 1995
9
Doors
The profile of the raking molding is a function of roof pitch, reaching a maximum elongation when the roof pitch is 1:1. A hundred years ago. it was doubtless common practice for lumberyards to stock suitable complements of eave and raking ...
‎1997
10
Senate Documents
Harvester, raking and binding attachment to.. Harvester, raking and binding device for .... -. Harvester, raking and delivering attachment to. Harvester, raking attachment for .......... .. Harvester, raking attachment for .......... . . Harvester, raking  ...
United States Senate, 1859

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RAKING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term raking is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Port Elgin Councillor Wants More Beach Raking
She says the municipality used to rake the beach on a weekly basis up until eight years ago and while those activities produced a nice looking beach, it caused ... «BlackburnNews.com, Jul 15»
2
Jeb Bush: Not slowing down on raking in the cash
Washington (CNN) Jeb Bush may have more than $100 million behind him, but he's not done with fundraising this summer. The former Florida governor's ... «CNN, Jul 15»
3
Oil Tankers Are Filling Up and Raking It In
The oil-tanker market is heating up, a development some analysts say is a warning flare that signals further price declines for crude. The Baltic Dirty Tanker ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»
4
Blue Flag taken down at Sauble
On Tuesday, South Bruce Peninsula council amended its beach maintenance policy to allow for raking of the beach to the water's edge. it will also allow the ... «Owen Sound Sun Times, Jun 15»
5
More raking at Sauble possible
During a tour of the beach following the seminar, a Blue Flag official suggested the town "will likely" lose its Blue Flag status if it allows more raking, the news ... «Owen Sound Sun Times, Jun 15»
6
Exeter kids are raking in nearly £6 a week in pocket money
The latest findings of Halifax's annual Pocket Money Survey show that the average amount children receive from their parent or guardian has fallen 4.8per cent ... «Exeter Express and Echo, May 15»
7
BJP raking up controversies to polarise elections: Congress
Jammu, May 26: Congress today said BJP was suffering from "obsessive compulsive controversy disorder" and alleged that it was raking up issues of Uniform ... «Oneindia, May 15»
8
Gor Bread raking in Sh130,000 daily
NAIROBI, APRIL 23 – Just two days after officially launching Gor Bread, the Kenyan Premier League (KPL) champions are already baking the cash, raking in ... «Capital FM Kenya, Apr 15»
9
Cheat your way through school? Website claims it's raking in the cash
SAGINAW, Mich. (Jan. 28, 2015) — A New York-based company is raking in the dough and not offering apologies for a service that helps students cheat their ... «Fox 59, Jan 15»
10
BJP raking up issues to divide society: Akhilesh
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of raking up issues aimed at dividing the society. He referred to the BJP as ... «The Hindu, Dec 14»

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