The difference between Party and Rave
When used as nouns, party means a person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action, whereas rave means an enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
When used as verbs, party means to celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself, whereas rave means to wander in mind or intellect.
Party is also adverb with the meaning: partly.
Party is also adjective with the meaning: divided.
check bellow for the other definitions of Party and Rave
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Party as a noun (legal):
A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
Examples:
"The contract requires that the party of the first part pay the fee."
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Party as a noun (slang, dated):
A person. A person; an individual. With to: an accessory, someone who takes part.
Examples:
"He is a queer party."
"I can't possibly be a party to that kind of reckless behaviour."
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Party as a noun (now, rare, _, in general sense):
A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc. Active player characters organized into a single group. A group of characters controlled by the player.
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Party as a noun:
A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.
Examples:
"The green party took 12% of the vote."
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Party as a noun (military):
A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
Examples:
"The settlers were attacked early next morning by a scouting party."
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Party as a noun:
A social gathering. A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing. A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity. A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.
Examples:
"I'm throwing a huge party for my 21st birthday."
"We're expecting a large party from the London office."
"Tupperware party'"
"lingerie party'"
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Party as a noun (obsolete):
A part or division.
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Party as a verb (intransitive):
To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
Examples:
"We partied until the early hours."
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Party as a verb (intransitive, slang, euphemistic):
To take recreational drugs.
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Party as a verb (intransitive):
To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
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Party as a verb (online gaming, intransitive):
To form a party (with).
Examples:
"If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer."
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Party as an adjective (obsolete, except in compounds):
Divided; in part.
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Party as an adjective (heraldry):
Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.
Examples:
"an escutcheon party per pale"
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Party as an adverb (obsolete):
Partly.
Examples:
"rfquotek Chaucer"
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Rave as a noun:
An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
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Rave as a noun:
An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use.
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Rave as a noun (music genre, uncountable):
The genres of electronic dance music usually associated with rave parties.
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Rave as a verb:
To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
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Rave as a verb:
To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
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Rave as a verb:
To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on.
Examples:
"He raved about her beauty."
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Rave as a verb (obsolete):
To rush wildly or furiously.
Examples:
"rfquotek Spenser"
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Rave as a verb:
To attend a rave (dance party).
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Rave as a noun:
One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
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Rave as a verb (obsolete):