How to pronounce "rake"

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Phonetic Breakdown of "rake"

Learn how to break down "rake" into its phonetic components. Understanding syllables and phonetics helps with pronunciation, spelling, and language learning.

Standard Phonetic Pronunciation:

/ɹeɪk/
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IPA Phonetic Pronunciation:

R EY1 K
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Pronunciation Tips:

  • Stress the first syllable
  • Pay attention to vowel sounds
  • Practice each syllable separately

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Definition of "rake"

Pronunciation: /ɹeɪk/

Noun

  • A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
    Synonyms: horserake
  • (by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
Pronunciation: /ɹeɪk/

Noun

  • The act of raking.
  • Something that is raked.

Verb

  • To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
    Example: "She is raking the gravel path to keep it even."
Pronunciation: /ɹeɪk/

Noun

  • A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.
  • The movement of animals while grazing.
  • The pastureland over which animals graze; a range, a stray.
  • A journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported.

Verb

  • To walk; to roam, to wander.
  • Of animals (especially sheep): to graze.
  • To roam or wander through (somewhere).

Noun

  • A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
    Synonyms: horserake
  • (by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.

Noun

  • The act of raking.
  • Something that is raked.

Noun

  • A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
  • A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
  • (originally Northern England) A series, a succession; specifically a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
    Example: "The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches."
    Synonyms: consist
  • (systems theory) In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.

Noun

  • Rate of progress; pace, speed.

Noun

  • A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
  • (specifically) In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
  • The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
  • Senses relating to watercraft.
  • (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.

Noun

  • A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
    Synonyms: roué
Pronunciation: /ɹeɪk/

Noun

  • Rate of progress; pace, speed.

Verb

  • To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
  • Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
Pronunciation: /ɹeɪk/

Noun

  • A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
  • (specifically) In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
  • The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
  • Senses relating to watercraft.
  • (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.

Verb

  • To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
    Example: "A mast rakes aft."
    Synonyms: slope
  • Senses relating to watercraft.
Pronunciation: /ɹeɪk/

Noun

  • A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
    Synonyms: roué

Verb

  • To behave as a rake; to lead a hedonistic and immoral life.

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