raid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: raids
form: rade
Etymology: From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).
Senses: examples: text: Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid, the morning fight.
ref: 1805, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 109:
text: There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids.
ref: 1872, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology, volume 1, page 315:
topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: attack
foray
incursion
glosses: A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
examples: text: a police raid of a narcotics factory
text: a raid of contractors on the public treasury
text: For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.
ref: 2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman:
topics: government
law-enforcement
synonyms: irruption
glosses: An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.
examples: text: The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians.
ref: 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An attacking movement.
examples: text: Now that Twitch is making raids an official part of the platform, however, some streamers think the new feature will make it easier to participate in the positive aspects of raiding.
ref: 2017 November 3, Ethan Gach, “What Twitch's New Raiding System Means For Streamers”, in Kotaku, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2017:
text: Now streamers can use a new feature that lets their viewers join a raid then drive traffic to another streamer with just a click.
ref: 2017 October 20, Sarah Perez, “Twitch unveils a suite of new tools to help creators grow their channels and make money”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2017:
glosses: 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.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
examples: text: I used the tools discord gave me to prevent raids but he somehow knows a bypass, I use bots and they do help prevent it but just having him ping 90 guys once makes people bash me for an entire hour.
ref: 2022 January 28, D4TBOl, “I need some help with preventing raids”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2024, r/discordapp:
text: Raids are a problem on Guilded. I have been in many servers that have been raided by a user with an account gen or even just some users looking to cause trouble and ruin the communities for us [...]
ref: 2022 March 7, AcousticJamm, “Raid prevention tools”, in Reddit, r/guilded:
qualifier: social media
glosses: An event involving a group of users, often using bots and scripts, who join a server to harm it or harass its members.
Derived terms: air raid
air-raid
Baedeker raid
bear raid
corporate raid
dawn raid
panty raid
ram-raid
ram raid
Zoom raid