Rep vs. Rap — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Rep and Rap

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Rep

A ribbed or corded fabric of various materials, such as cotton, wool, or silk.

Rap

Strike (a hard surface) with a series of rapid audible blows, especially in order to attract attention

He stood up and rapped the table

She rapped on the window

Rep

A representative.

Rap

Talk or chat in an easy and familiar manner

We could be here all night rapping about spiritualism

Rep

A unit of absorbed radiation dose, equal to the amount of ionizing radiation that will transfer 93 ergs of energy to 1 gram of water or living tissue.

Rap

Perform rap music

He raps under the name of Mr T

Rep

A repertory company.

Rap

A quick, sharp knock or blow

There was a confident rap at the door

Rep

A repertory theater.

Rap

A type of popular music of US black origin in which words are recited rapidly and rhythmically over an instrumental backing

Rap artists

The label specializes in rap and modern soul

Rep

Reputation

"Modern British royalty began with Queen Victoria, who still has a bad rep for being stodgy, straitlaced and—well, Victorian" (Anthony Holden).

Rap

A lengthy or impromptu conversation

Dropping in after work for a rap over a beer

Rep

A repetition of a particular movement or action, as in weightlifting.

Rap

A criminal charge, especially of a specified kind

He's just been acquitted on a murder rap

Rep

(informal) reputation

Try not to make it easy for the tabloids to ruin your rep.

Rap

A person's reputation, typically a bad one

Why should drag queens get a bad rap?

Rep

Clipping of repetition

I get a better bicep workout if I use less weight and more reps.

Rap

The smallest amount (used for emphasis)

He doesn't care a rap whether it's true or not

Rep

(informal) representative

When I requested tickets for Nassau, my rep just put me on hold.

John Doe is a participant in the House of Reps.

Rap

To hit sharply and swiftly; strike

Rapped the table with his fist.

Rep

(informal) representation

Rap

To utter sharply

Rap out a complaint.

Rep

(theater) repertory

She did her time in reps before she made the grade in West End theatre.

Rap

To criticize or blame.

Rep

Clipping of report

Rap

To strike a quick light blow

Rapped on the door.

Rep

(textiles) A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.

Rap

(Slang) To discuss something freely and at length.

Rep

To represent; to act as a representative for.

Rap

To perform rap music.

Rep

(knitting) repeat

Rap

To perform as rap music

Lyrics that were rapped.

Rapped the chorus of the song.

Rep

To lift for multiple reps

Rap

A quick light blow or knock.

Rep

A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.

Rap

A knocking or tapping sound.

Rep

Formed with a surface closely corded, or ribbed transversely; - applied to textile fabrics of silk or wool; as, rep silk.

Rap

A reprimand.

Rep

Informal abbreviation of `representative'

Rap

A sentence to serve time in prison.

Rep

A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs

Rap

(Slang) A negative quality or characteristic associated with a person or an object.

Rap

The least bit

I don't give a rap about office politics. I don't care a rap what you do.

Rap

(Slang) A talk, conversation, or discussion.

Rap

A form of popular music developed especially in African American urban communities and characterized by spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics with a strong rhythmic accompaniment.

Rap

A composition or performance of such music.

Rap

(countable) A sharp blow with something hard.

Rap

(slang) Blame for something.

You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap.

Rap

(informal) A casual talk.

Rap

Rap music.

Rap

A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.

Rap

An appraisal.

Rap

A positive appraisal; a recommendation.

Rap

A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard length taken from the reel, 80 yards of worsted or 120 yards of silk or cotton.

Rap

(historical) Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

Rap

A whit; a jot.

I don't care a rap.

That's not worth a rap.

Rap

Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution

Rap

A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.

Rap

(intransitive) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.

Rap

To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

Rap

(metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

Rap

To utter quickly and sharply.

The sergeant rapped out a word of command to the troops.

Rap

(ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.

He started to rap after listening to Tupac.

He rapped a song to his girlfriend.

Rap

To talk casually; to engage in conversation.

Rap

(transitive) To seize and carry off.

Rap

(transitive) To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.

Rap

A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

Rap

A quick, smart blow; a knock.

Rap

A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps.

Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent.

Rap

Conversation; also, rapping.

Rap

A type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; rap music.

Rap

To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

Rap

To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

With one great peal they rap the door.

Rap

To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

Rap

To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.

And through the Greeks and Ilians they raptThe whirring chariot.

From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove.

Rap

To hasten.

Rap

To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.

I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.

Rapt into future times, the bard begun.

Rap

To exchange; to truck.

Rap

To engage in a discussion, converse.

Rap

To perform a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by some as a type of music; see rap music.

All they could rap and rend and pilfer.

A judge who rapped out a great oath.

Rap

A reproach for some lapse or misdeed;

He took the blame for it

It was a bum rap

Rap

A gentle blow

Rap

The sound made by a gentle blow

Rap

Voluble conversation

Rap

Genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged