rally
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
business
finance
games
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
squash
tennis
trading
Etymology: From Middle French rallier (French rallier), from Old French ralier, from Latin prefix re- + ad + ligare (“to bind; to ally”).
Inflected forms:
form: rallies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rallies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rallying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rallied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rallied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.
pos: noun
examples: a campaign rally
an election rally
gloss: A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America.
pos: noun
examples: a political rally
The EDL said Saturday’s rally was aimed at highlighting what it describes as a “continued increase in Islamic terrorism” linked to Birmingham.
Mortenson, who asked to use a pseudonym for this story, says she has been attending rallies and vigils in her home state to regain her optimism, but she’s finding it tough.
gloss: A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
pos: noun
gloss: An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
pos: noun
gloss: A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)
pos: noun
gloss: To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world.
The Grecians rally, and their powers unite.
The USA were dominant but, to England’s immense credit, they repeatedly rallied, refusing to fold. Indeed they could conceivably have gone in level at the interval had Naeher not made an acrobatic, stretching, fingertip save to divert Walsh’s 25-yard thunderbolt as it whizzed unerringly on its apparently inexorable trajectory towards the top corner.
gloss: To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Norbourne was almost thankful for any excuse that enabled him to avoid seeing Lady Marchmont. In vain he sought to rally his spirits, and to conceal his depression; but the idea of Ethel mocked his efforts to forget.
gloss: To recover strength after a decline in prices.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The market fell this morning but rallied later in the day.
Bitcoin has still plunged in value by almost two-thirds this year, it should be said. But it has also rallied by about 10% since the downwards lurch when FTX filed for bankruptcy in mid-November, which is extraordinary.
Derived words: antirally
counterrally
pep rally
rally cap
rallycross
rally English
rallygoer
rallyist
rally towel
terminal rally
boot and rally
rally around
rally around the flag
rally behind
rallyingly
rallying point
rally round
rally round the flag
unrallied
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