NOUN | phenomenon | rain, rainfall | water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere |
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substance | rain, rainwater | drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds | |
attribute | rain, pelting | anything happening rapidly or in quick successive | |
VERB | weather | rain, rain down | precipitate as rain |
Sounds | rey'n | |
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Rhymes | abstain ... windowpane: 127 rhymes with eyn... |
Meaning | water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere. | |
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Synonym | rainfall | |
Parts | raindrop | A drop of rain |
Narrower | downpour, cloudburst, deluge, waterspout, torrent, pelter, soaker | A heavy rain |
drizzle, mizzle | Very light rain | |
monsoon | Any wind that changes direction with the seasons | |
rainstorm | A storm with rain | |
shower, rain shower | A brief period of precipitation | |
Broader | precipitation, downfall | The falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) |
Spanish | aguacero, lluvia, precipitación | |
Catalan | pluja, pluviositat, precipitació | |
Adjectives | rainy | (of weather) wet by periods of rain |
Verbs | rain | precipitate as rain |
Meaning | Drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds. | |
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Synonym | rainwater | |
Broader | fresh water, freshwater | water that is not salty |
Spanish | agua de lluvia, agua, lluvia | |
Catalan | aigua de pluja, pluja | |
Adjectives | rainy | (of weather) wet by periods of rain |
Verbs | rain | precipitate as rain |
Meaning | Anything happening rapidly or in quick successive. | |
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Example | "a rain of bullets" | |
Synonym | pelting | |
Broader | sequence, chronological sequence, succession, successiveness, chronological succession | A following of one thing / thing after another in time |
Meaning | precipitate as rain. | |
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Pattern | It is ----ing; Something ----s something | |
Model | It was raining all day long | |
Example | "If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding" | |
Synonym | rain down | |
Entailed by | storm | rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning |
Narrower | drizzle, mizzle | rain lightly / lightly |
pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets | rain heavily | |
shower, shower down | rain abundantly | |
sprinkle, spit, spatter, patter, pitter-patter | rain gently | |
Broader | precipitate, come down, fall | fall from clouds |
Spanish | llover, precipitar | |
Catalan | ploure, pluja | |
Nouns | rain | water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere |
rain | drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds |
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