rally

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English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹæ.li/
  • Rhymes: -æli
  • Audio (UK)(file)

Etymology 1

From Middle French rallier (French rallier), from Old French ralier, from Latin prefix re- + ad + ligare (“to bind; to ally”).

Noun

rally (plural rallies)

  1. A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.
    a campaign rally
    an election rally
  2. A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America.
    a political rally
  3. (squash, table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
  4. (motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
  5. (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)
Hyponyms
Translations
demonstration — see demonstration

Verb

rally (third-person singular simple present rallies, present participle rallying, simple past and past participle rallied)

  1. To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
  2. To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
    • 2019, Louise Taylor, Alex Morgan heads USA past England into Women’s World Cup final (in The Guardian, 2 July 2019)[1]
      The USA were dominant but, to England’s immense credit, they repeatedly rallied, refusing to fold. Indeed they could conceivably have gone in level at the interval had Naeher not made an acrobatic, stretching, fingertip save to divert Walsh’s 25-yard thunderbolt as it whizzed unerringly on its apparently inexorable trajectory towards the top corner.
    • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
      The Grecians rally, and their powers unite.
    • Template:RQ:Tillotson Wisdom
      Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world.
  3. To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
    • 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 2, pages 40-41:
      Norbourne was almost thankful for any excuse that enabled him to avoid seeing Lady Marchmont. In vain he sought to rally his spirits, and to conceal his depression; but the idea of Ethel mocked his efforts to forget.
  4. (business, trading) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
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Etymology 2

From French railler. See rail (“to scoff”).

Verb

rally (third-person singular simple present rallies, present participle rallying, simple past and past participle rallied)

  1. (transitive) To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
    • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.iii:
      But you must not rally him on the subject Sir Oliver—'tis a tender Point I assure you though He has been married only seven months.
    • 1711 August 11 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “TUESDAY, July 31, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 132; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
      Honeycomb […] rallies me after his way upon my country life.
      The spelling has been modernized.
    • Template:RQ:Gay Fan
      Strephon had long confessed his amorous pain / Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain.
    • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
      So the athletic Magnolia instantly impounded the little lieutenant, and began to rally him, in the sort of slang she delighted in, with plenty of merriment and malice upon his tendre for Miss Chattesworth, and made the gallant young gentleman blush and occasionally smile, and bow a great deal, and take some snuff.

Noun

rally (uncountable)

  1. Good-humoured raillery.

References

Anagrams

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia cs

Noun

rally f

  1. rally (motor racing event)

Synonyms

Italian

Etymology

From English rally.

Pronunciation

Noun

rally m (invariable)

  1. rally event involving groups of people

References

  1. ^ rally in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

From English rally

Noun

rally n (definite singular rallyet, indefinite plural rally or rallyer, definite plural rallya or rallyene)

  1. a rally (e.g. in motor sport)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

From English rally

Noun

rally n (definite singular rallyet, indefinite plural rally, definite plural rallya)

  1. a rally (e.g. in motor sport)

References

Portuguese

Noun

rally m (plural s)

  1. Alternative spelling of rali

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rally.

Pronunciation

Noun

rally m (plural rallys)

  1. (motor racing) rally

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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