raid

6 definitions found

raid - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Raid \Raid\ (r[=a]d), n. [Icel. rei[eth] a riding, raid; akin to
     E. road. See Road a way.]
     1. A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion
        of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry
        force; a foray.
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              Marauding chief! his sole delight
              The moonlight raid, the morning fight. --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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              There are permanent conquests, temporary
              occupations, and occasional raids.    --H. Spenser.
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     Note: A Scottish word which came into common use in the
           United States during the Civil War, and was soon
           extended in its application.
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     2. An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests,
        seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police
        upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public
        treasury. [Colloq. U. S.]
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  Raid \Raid\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raided; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Raiding.]
     To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the
     border counties.
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raid - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  raid
      n 1: a sudden short attack [syn: foray, raid, maraud]
      2: an attempt by speculators to defraud investors
      v 1: search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on;
           "The police raided the crack house" [syn: raid, bust]
      2: enter someone else's territory and take spoils; "The pirates
         raided the coastal villages regularly" [syn: foray into,
         raid]
      3: take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its
         stock; "T. Boone Pickens raided many large companies"
      4: search for something needed or desired; "Our babysitter
         raided our refrigerator"

raid - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks
  RAID
  Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
  Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks
  
     <storage, architecture> (RAID.  Originally "Redundant Arrays
     of Inexpensive Disks") A project at the computer science
     department of the University of California at Berkeley,
     under the direction of Professor Katz, in conjunction with
     Professor John Ousterhout and Professor David Patterson.
  
     The project is reaching its culmination with the
     implementation of a prototype disk array file server with a
     capacity of 40 GBytes and a sustained bandwidth of 80
     MBytes/second.  The server is being interfaced to a 1 Gb/s
     local area network.  A new initiative, which is part of the
     Sequoia 2000 Project, seeks to construct a geographically
     distributed storage system spanning disk arrays and automated
     libraries of optical disks and tapes.  The project will
     extend the interleaved storage techniques so successfully
     applied to disks to tertiary storage devices.  A key element
     of the research will be to develop techniques for managing
     latency in the I/O and network paths.
  
     The original ("..Inexpensive..") term referred to the 3.5 and
     5.25 inch disks used for the first RAID system but no longer
     applies.
  
     The following standard RAID specifications exist:
  
      RAID 0	Non-redundant striped array
      RAID 1	Mirrored arrays
      RAID 2	Parallel array with ECC
      RAID 3	Parallel array with parity
      RAID 4	Striped array with parity
      RAID 5	Striped array with rotating parity
  
     
  (ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/techreports/berkeley.edu/raid/raidPapers).
     
  (http://HTTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU/projects/parallel/research_summaries/14-Computer-Architecture/).
  
     ["A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)",
     "D. A. Patterson and G. Gibson and R. H. Katz", Proc ACM
     SIGMOD Conf, Chicago, IL, Jun 1988].
  
     ["Introduction to Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks
     (RAID)", "D. A. Patterson and P. Chen and G. Gibson and
     R. H. Katz", IEEE COMPCON 89, San Francisco, Feb-Mar 1989].
  
     (1995-07-20)
  

raid - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  RAID
         Redundant Array of Independent / Inexpensive Disks (HDD, RAID)
         

raid - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  104 Moby Thesaurus words for "raid":
     air attack, air raid, air strike, assault, attack, banditry,
     bear raid, blitz, board, boarding, brigandage, brigandism,
     bull raid, bust, corner, corner in, depredate, depredation,
     descend upon, despoil, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation,
     devastate, direption, escalade, expedition, fire raid, fleece,
     forage, foraging, foray, freeboot, freebooting, gut, harass, harry,
     incursion, inroad, inundate, invade, invasion, irruption, loot,
     looting, make a raid, make an inroad, manipulation, maraud,
     marauding, monopoly, onset, onslaught, overrun, overswarm,
     overwhelm, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, pounce upon,
     prey on, raiding, ransack, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage,
     ravagement, ravaging, raven, ravish, ravishment, razzia, reive,
     reiving, rifle, rifling, rigging, rob, sack, sacking, sally,
     saturation raid, scale, scale the walls, scaling, set upon,
     shuttle raid, sortie, spoil, spoiling, spoliate, spoliation, storm,
     strip, surprise attack, sweep, swoop down on, swoop down upon,
     take by storm, wash sale, washing, waste