raffle
A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prizeA drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.
» Did Tom buy a raffle ticket?
Том купил лотерейный билет?
Том купив лотерейний квиток?
Значение
значений: 4A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.
He entered a raffle to win a lifetime supply of toothpaste, but he did not win.
Tombola, Verlosung
лотере́яlotɛréja
(Philippines)The system by which cases are assigned to judges in multi-sala courts.
(устаревшее, неисчисляемое)Refuse; rubbish.
the oversurviving raffle of half-green things which the gentle winter has suffered to live
(устаревшее)A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.
- a lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money
Примеры
предложений: 14Did Tom buy a raffle ticket?
Том купил лотерейный билет?
ukТом купив лотерейний квиток?
Do you ever buy raffle tickets?
Ты когда-нибудь покупаешь лотерейные билеты?
Do you still have that raffle ticket?
Have you bought a raffle ticket yet?
I won the raffle.
ukЯ виграв у лотереї.
Переводы
языков: 8По значениям 1
По значениям 1
Происхождение
From Middle English rafle, from Old French rafle, raffle (“dice game", also "plundering”),From Middle English rafle, from Old French rafle, raffle (“dice game", also "plundering”), from rafler (“to snatch, seize, carry off”), from Frankish *raffolōn, from Proto-Germanic *hrapōną, *hrēpōną (“to scratch, touch, pluck out, snatch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreb(h)-, *(s)kerb(h)- (“to turn, bend, shrink”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Middle Dutch raffel (“dice game”), German raffen (“to snatch away, sweep off”), Old English hreppan (“to touch, treat, attack”).
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