raid
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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"
from
The 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.
[1913 Webster]
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.]
[1913 Webster]
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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)
from
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
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