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Definition: RAIN WATER |
RAIN WATER1. Water that has fallen from the clouds in rain. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Geography | Rain water and melt water running off the surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Synonym by domain: off-and-on (geography). |
Crosswords: RAIN WATER |
| English words defined with "RAIN WATER": acid precipitation, acid rain, allow ♦ depress, Devaporation, drain ♦ freshet ♦ hatless, Hydrometeor, Hydrometeorology ♦ Intermittent springs ♦ let, lower ♦ permit ♦ Ravenala madagascariensis, run out ♦ spate, Stillicide. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "RAIN WATER": AVERAGE HYDRO ♦ claypan, coarse-grained soil ♦ deck drain, DOG'S SOUP, Downspout Leader ♦ kerb inlet ♦ NEMA-4 ♦ outcrop water ♦ Raining Tree, run-off ♦ scupper hole, Sediments, storm water, superfluous water, surface water ♦ tropical storm. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The rain water gathers there, and from time to time a bird from the neighbouring forest comes to drink and flies away. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rain water | 24 |
rain water harvesting | 22 |
rain water collection | 15 |
collector rain water | 6 |
rain water collection system | 5 |
rain water barrel | 4 |
rain water tank | 4 |
cycle forest rain water | 3 |
collecting rain water | 3 |
drainage rain water | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "RAIN WATER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | overfladisk afstrømning (run-off, storm water, surface water). (various references) | |
Dutch | langs oppervlakten wegstromende neerslag (run-off, storm water, surface water). (various references) | |
Finnish | sade-ja sulamisvesi (run-off, storm water, surface water). (various references) | |
French | eau de ruissellement, eau de pluie, eau d'écoulement. (various references) | |
German | Regenwasserablauf (run-off, storm water, surface water), Traufwasser (run-off, storm water, surface water), Abwasser (drainage, effluence, effluent, run-off, sewage, slop, storm water, surface water, waste water), Ablaufwasser (escaped water, operation waste, run-off, storm water, surface water), Abflusswasser (run-off, storm water, surface water). (various references) | |
Greek | επιφανειακά νερά (run-off, storm water, surface water). (various references) | |
Hungarian | esõvíz. (various references) | |
Italian | acqua piovana (rainwater, run-off, storm water, surface water), acqua di scorrimento (run-off, storm water, surface water), acqua di ruscellamento (run-off, storm water, surface water). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 雨水 , 天水 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うすい (diluted, thin, watery, weak), あまみず, て"すい (pitcher, water jug). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ainray aterway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | água de escorrimento (run-off, storm water, surface water), água de escoamento (run-off, storm water, surface water), água da chuva (run-off, storm water, surface water). (various references) | |
Spanish | aguas superficiales (run-off, storm water, surface water, surfacewater), aguas pluviales (run-off, storm water, surface water), agua de lluvia (rainwater, run-off, storm water, surface water). (various references) | |
Swedish | dagvatten (run-off, storm water, street wash, surface water). (various references) | |
Turkish | yağmur suyu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rainwater. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-n-r-r-t-w" | |
-1 letter: antiwear, interwar, rainwear. | |
-2 letters: antiwar, awaiter, narrate, retrain, tawnier, terrain, tinware, trainer, warrant, wartier. | |
-3 letters: antiar, arrant, artier, atwain, errant, errata, irater, ranter, ratine, retain, retina, taenia, twiner, waiter, wanier, wanter, warier, warner, warren, winter, writer. | |
-4 letters: airer, anear, antae, antra, antre, arena, atria, await, aware, entia, inert, inter, irate, naira, niter, nitre, ratan, rater, rawer, rawin, reata, reran, retia, rewan, rewin, riant, riata, tarre, tawer, tawie, tenia, terai, terra, tiara, tinea, train, trier, trine, twain, twier, twine, water, wirer, wirra, witan, wrier, write. | |
-5 letters: airn, airt, anew, anta, ante, anti, area, aria, earn, etna, near, neat, newt, nite, raia, rain, rani, rant, rare, rate, rear, rein, rent, rite, tain, tare, tarn, tear, tern, tier, tine, tire, twae, twin, wain, wair, wait, wane, want, ware, warn, wart, wean, wear, weir, went, wert, wine, wire, wite, wren, writ. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-n-r-r-t-w" | |
+1 letter: rainwaters, warranties. | |
+2 letters: graniteware. | |
+3 letters: granitewares, heartwarming, watermarking. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 41 49 4E      57 41 54 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000001 01001001 01001110 00100000 01010111 01000001 01010100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R A I N   W A T E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0041 0049 004E      0057 0041 0054 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5235434825735543952 |
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