What is "rave"

Rave \Rave\ (r[=a]v), obs. imp. of Rive.

Rave \Rave\, n. [Prov. E. raves, or rathes, a frame laid on a wagon, for carrying hay, etc.] One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

Rave \Rave\, v. t. To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave nonsense.
--Young.

Rave \Rave\, n.

1. An instance of raving.

2. A highly flattering or enthusiastic review of a play, book, etc.

3. A clamorous dance party, especially one featuring a band or disc jockey playing loud modern rock music oriented toward young people, held in a large room such as a warehouse, often organized by an informal or ad hoc sponsor. [originally British slang]

Rave \Rave\ (r[=a]v), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Raved (r[=a]vd); p. pr. & vb. n. Raving.] [F. r[^e]ver to rave, to be delirious, to dream; perhaps fr. L. rabere to rave, rage, be mad or furious. Cf. Rage, Reverie.]

1. To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman.

   In our madness evermore we rave.
   --Chaucer.

   Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?
   --Addison.

   The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie.
   --Macaulay.

2. To rush wildly or furiously.
   --Spenser.

3. To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty.

   The hallowed scene Which others rave of, though they know it not.
   --Byron.

early 14c., "to show signs of madness or delirium," from Old French raver, variant of resver "to dream; wander here and there, prowl; behave madly, be crazy," of unknown origin (compare reverie). The identical (in form) verb meaning "to wander, stray, rove" first appeared c.1300 in Scottish and northern dialect, and is probably from an unrelated Scandinavian word (such as Icelandic rafa). Sense of "talk enthusiastically about" first recorded 1704. Related: Raved; raving.

"act of raving," 1590s, from rave (v.). Meaning "temporary popular enthusiasm" is from 1902; that of "highly flattering review" is from 1926. Sense of "rowdy party" is from 1960; rave-up was British slang for "wild party" from 1940; specific modern sense of "mass party with loud, fast electronic music and often psychedelic drugs" is from 1989.

Etymology 1 n. 1 An enthusiastic review (such as of a play). 2 An all-night dance party filled with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly club drug. 3 (context uncountable English) The genre of electronic dance music associated with rave parties. vb. 1 To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging. 2 To speak or write wildly or incoherently. 3 To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by ''about'', ''of'', or (formerly) ''on''. 4 (context obsolete English) To rush wildly or furiously. 5 To attend a rave (dance party). Etymology 2

n. One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

1. n. a dance party that lasts all night and electronically synthesized music is played; "raves are very popular in Berlin"

2. an extravagantly enthusiastic review; "he gave it a rave"

1. v. participate in an all-night techno dance party

2. talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner [syn: rant, mouth off, jabber, spout, rabbit on]

3. praise enthusiastically; "She raved about that new restaurant" [syn: gush]

RAVE can refer to:

• Radial Velocity Experiment, spectroscopic astronomical survey
• RAVE (known as Rave Master in English), a manga series
• Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act (RAVE Act)
• Rendering Acceleration Virtual Engine, a low-level interface to 3D graphics cards for Mac OS and MorphOS
• Routing Audio Via Ethernet, a brand of audio over Ethernet
• Rave

Rave is a kind of dance party.

Rave may also refer to:

• • Free party, an illegal rave
  • Rave music, music for dancing
• Rave Master, a 1999 anime and manga franchise, also known as Groove Adventure Rave
• Rave Motion Pictures, a defunct movie theater company that is now part of Cinemark since 2013
• Rave (board game)
• Rave (magazine), an Indian music magazine
• Rave (film), a 2000 American film written and directed by Ron Krauss
• The Rave, a concert venue in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
• RAVE (survey), RAdial Velocity Experiment, an astronomical survey
• Rendering Acceleration Virtual Engine, a hardware abstraction layer once used in QuickDraw 3D on Macintosh computers

Rave is an Indian music magazine, launched in March 2002. It was modeled on Rolling Stones magazine. The magazine is published by Soul City Publications ten times per year. In 2004 the US edition began to be published. Its online edition was started in August 2007.

Rave is a board game that was created by WOW Enterprises in 1991. The game is based on the subcultural dance movement of the early 1990s.

The game was created by Patrick Treloar (MD of Wow Enterprises) and designed by The Style Bandits (amongst others) Gregg Jones helped paying for it. It contains a section designed by Jamie Hewlett of Gorillaz and Tank Girl fame. It went on to sell over 20,000 copies until it was withdrawn from the shelves by WH Smith when the store was made aware of its overtly adult content.

The idea of the game was to drive around looking for fliers and energi [sic] tablets. Once the player had accumulated enough energi tablets, they could then proceed to their rave and dance, until they collected all three sections of the WOW Tryptich.

WOW Enterprises are now engaged in the design and creation of an MMORPG based around the game.

Rave is an American film written and directed by Ronald Krauss and starring Efren Ramirez, Douglas Spain, Aimee Graham, Nicholle Tom, Dante Basco and Franco Vega.

RAVE (RAdial Velocity Experiment) is a multi-fiber spectroscopic astronomical survey of stars in the Milky Way using the 1.2-metre UK Schmidt Telescope of the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO). The RAVE collaboration consists of researchers from over 20 institutions around the world and is coordinated by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP).

As a southern hemisphere survey covering 20,000 square degrees of the sky, RAVE's primary aim is to derive the radial velocity of stars from the observed spectra. Additional information is also derived such as effective temperature, surface gravity, metallicity, photometric parallax and elemental abundance data for the stars.

On April 5, 2013 RAVE concluded its phase of data taking. In an almost ten year observing campaign, a total of 574,630 spectra have been obtained on 483,330 individual stars by a small team of AAO observers, with other observers making occasional visits from RAVE participating institutions.