rain

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  RAIN WATER BASIN, ÁCOMA
• WordNet 3.6
  • v rain precipitate as rain "If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding"
  • n rain anything happening rapidly or in quick successive "a rain of bullets","a pelting of insults"
  • n rain water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere
  • n rain drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds
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The friends' picnic is spoiled by the rain

Rain. Shoshoni, Apache

Rain. New Mexican pictograph

Rain. Shoshoni

Rain, rain, go away

ON A CERTAIN NIGHT, DURING A STORM OF THUNDER AND RAIN,

RAIN OR SHINE

THE RAIN-CROW

• Interesting fact: In the dry valleys region of Antarctica, it has not rained in 2 million years according to scientists
• • n. & v Rain rān Reign.
  • Rain To bestow in a profuse or abundant manner; as, to rain favors upon a person.
  • Rain To fall in drops from the clouds, as water; -- used mostly with it for a nominative; as, it rains . "The rain it raineth every day."
  • Rain To fall or drop like water from the clouds; as, tears rained from their eyes.
  • Rain To pour or shower down from above, like rain from the clouds. "Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you."
  • n Rain rān Water falling in drops from the clouds; the descent of water from the clouds in drops.☞ Rain is distinguished from mist by the size of the drops, which are distinctly visible. When water falls in very small drops or particles, it is called mist; and fog is composed of particles so fine as to be not only individually indistinguishable, but to float or be suspended in the air. See Fog, and Mist. "Rain is water by the heat of the sun divided into very small parts ascending in the air, till, encountering the cold, it be condensed into clouds, and descends in drops.""Fair days have oft contracted wind and rain ."
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• Interesting fact: Tropical rainforests cover about 7% of the Earth and receive over 80 inches of rain every year
• • n rain The descent of water in drops through the atmosphere, or the water thus falling. In general, clouds constitute the reservoir from which rain descends, but the fall of rain in very small quantities from a cloudless sky is occasionally observed. The aqueous vapor of the atmosphere, which condenses into cloud, and falls as rain, is derived from the evaporation of water, partly from land, but chiefly from the vast expanse of the ocean. At a given temperature, only a certain amount of aqueous vapor can be contained in a given volume, and when this amount is present the air is said to be saturated. If the air is then cooled below this temperature, a part of the vapor will be condensed into small drops, which, when suspended in the atmosphere, coustitute clonds. Under continued cooling and condensation, the number and size of the drops increase until they begin to descend by their own weight. The largest of these, falling fastest, unite with smaller ones that they overtake, and thus drops of rain are formed whose size depends on the thickness and density of the cloud and on the distribution of electrical stress therein. Sometimes the rate of condensation is so great that the water appears to fall in sheets rather than in drops, and then the storm is popularly called a cloud-burst. It is now generally held that dynamic cooling (that is, the cooling of air by expansion, when raised in altitude, and thereby brought under diminished pressure), if not the sole cause of rain, is the only cause of any importance, and that other causes popularly appealed to—such as the intermingling of warm and cold air, contact with cold mountain-slopes, etc.—are either inoperative or relatively insignificant. The requisite ascent of air may be occasioned either by convection currents, a cyclonic circulation, or the upward deflection of horizontal currents by hills or mountains; and rain may be classified as convectivc, cyclonic, or orographic, according as the first, second, or third of these methods is brought into operation to produce it. The productiveness of the soil and the maintenance of life in most parts of the earth depend largely upon an adequate fall of rain. In some regions it is more or less evenly distributed throughout the year, in others it is confined to a part of the year (the rainy season), and in others still it is entirely absent, or too slight for need, according to variation of local atmospheric conditions. In a ship's log-book abbreviated r.
  • n rain Figuratively— A fall of any substance through the atmosphere in the manner of rain, as of blossoms or of the pyrotechnic stars from rockets and other fireworks. Blood-rain is a fall of fragments of red algæ or the like, raised in large quantities by the wind and afterward precipitated. Sulphur-rain or yellow rain is a similar precipitation of the pollen of fir-trees, etc.
  • n rain A shower, downpour, or abundant outpouring of anything.
  • n rain Synonyms Rain, Haze, Fog, Mist, Cloud. A cloud resting upon the earth is called mist or fog. In mist the globules are very fine, but are separately distinguishable, and have a visible motion. In fog the particles are separately indistinguishable, and there is no perceptible motion. A dry fog is composed largely of dust-particles on which the condensed vapor is too slight to occasion any sense of moisture. Haze differs from fog and cloud in the greater microscopic minuteness of its particles. It is visible only as a want of transparency of the atmosphere, and in general exhibits neither form, boundary, nor locus. Thus, among haze, fog, mist, and rain, the size of the constituent particles or globules is a discriminating characteristic, though frequently cloud merges into fog or mist, and mist into rain, by insensible gradations.
  • rain To fall in drops through the air, as water: generally used impersonally.
  • rain To fall or drop like rain; as, tears rained from their eyes.
  • rain To pour or shower down, like rain from the clouds; pour or send down abundantly.
  • n rain A ridge.
  • n rain A furrow.
  • n rain An obsolete spelling of rein.
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• Interesting fact: Rain falls at 11kmph (7mph)
• • n Rain rān water from the clouds in drops: a shower: a fall of any substance through the atmosphere in the manner of rain
  • v.i Rain to fall from the clouds: to drop like rain
  • v.t Rain to pour like rain
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• Iris Murdoch

  

  “A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.”
• Edmund Waller

  

  “Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.”
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  

  “Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.”
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  

  “Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.”
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  “If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.”
• J. Askenberg

  

  “You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.”

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