Assert and Rap

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

noun

• A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
  • usage: "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap"
  • synonyms: blame
• A gentle blow.
  • synonyms: strike, tap
• The sound made by a gentle blow.
  • synonyms: pat, tap
• Voluble conversation.
• Genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged.
  • synonyms: rap music, hip-hop
• The act of hitting vigorously.
  • usage: "he gave the table a whack"
  • synonyms: knock, belt, whack, whang

verb

• Strike sharply.
  • usage: "rap him on the knuckles"
  • synonyms: knap
• Make light, repeated taps on a surface.
  • usage: "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"
  • synonyms: tap, knock, pink
• Perform rap music.
• Talk volubly. .

• (v.) To hasten.
• (v.t.) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
• (v.t.) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
• (n.) A quick, smart blow; a knock.
• (v.i.) To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.
• (v.) To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
• (n.) A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
• (v.) To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
• (v.) To exchange; to truck.
• (n.) A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

RAP means Regulatory accounting procedures.