Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Rally   /rˈæli/   Listen
noun
Rally  n.  (pl. rallies)  
1.
The act or process of rallying (in any of the senses of that word).
2.
A political mass meeting. (Colloq. U. S.)


Rally  n.  Good-humored raillery.


verb
Rally  v. t.  (past & past part. rallied; pres. part. rallying)  To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.


Rally  v. t.  To attack with raillery, either in good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire. "Honeycomb... rallies me upon a country life." "Strephon had long confessed his amorous pain, Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain."
Synonyms: To banter; ridicule; satirize; deride; mock.


Rally  v. i.  
1.
To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite. "The Grecians rally, and their powers unite." "Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world."
2.
To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
3.
To recover strength after a decline in prices; said of the market, stocks, etc.


Rally  v. i.  To use pleasantry, or satirical merriment.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Rally" Quotes from Famous Books



... was more than anxious. He felt desperately sorry for poor little Tom Binns, who had been tremendously proud of being chosen to pitch for his team, and he was afraid, as were the others, that the sudden rally was more ...
— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters - or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed • Robert Maitland
... supreme effort to rally his powers of self-control. The envelope lay between them—but out of his own reach and that spelled the ...
— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck
... among its rural population, directly beneath the eyes of the highest authority of the State. The danger to valuable and movable property would be too imminent, and those who felt an interest in its preservation would not fail to rally in its defence. It is precisely on this principle that in the end property will protect itself as against the popular inroads which are inevitable, should the present tendencies receive no check. ...
— New York • James Fenimore Cooper
... room, where first he saw the Duke of Gloucester, De Lacy found Sir John de Bury. The old Knight was slow to rally from his wound; and being scarcely convalescent when Richard drew in his forces, he had been left in command of Pontefract in place of Sir Robert Wallingford, who went with the King. But lately his strength was coming back to him with swift pulsations and he was growing irritably impatient ...
— Beatrix of Clare • John Reed Scott
... days was enough to use up in a little time any house that wa'n't fire-proof; and when that was preached to pieces, they put up another shelter in its place. This is it. And now't the land a'n't used no more for the puppose 'twas lent for, it goes back nat'rally to the estate 'twas took from, and the buildin's ...
— The Man Who Stole A Meeting-House - 1878, From "Coupon Bonds" • J. T. Trowbridge


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com