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Definition: Rain |
RainNoun1. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere. 2. Drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds. 3. Anything happening rapidly or in quick successive; "a rain of bullets"; "a pelting of insults". Verb1. Precipitate as rain; "If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding.". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Rain" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the rain". |
Date "rain" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Bible | Rain There are three Hebrew words used to denote the rains of different seasons, (1.) Yoreh (Hos. 6:3), or moreh (Joel 2:23), denoting the former or the early rain. (2.) Melqosh, the "latter rain" (Prov. 16:15). (3.) Geshem, the winter rain, "the rains." The heavy winter rain is mentioned in Gen. 7:12; Ezra 10:9; Cant. 2:11. The "early" or "former" rains commence in autumn in the latter part of October or beginning of November (Deut. 11:14; Joel 2:23; comp. Jer. 3:3), and continue to fall heavily for two months. Then the heavy "winter rains" fall from the middle of December to March. There is no prolonged fair weather in Palestine between October and March. The "latter" or spring rains fall in March and April, and serve to swell the grain then coming to maturity (Deut. 11:14; Hos. 6:3). After this there is ordinarily no rain, the sky being bright and cloudless till October or November. Rain is referred to symbolically in Deut. 32:2; Ps. 72:6; Isa. 44:3, 4; Hos. 10:12. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To be out in a clear shower of rain, denotes that pleasure will be enjoyed with the zest of youth, and prosperity will come to you. If the rain descends from murky clouds, you will feel alarmed over the graveness of your undertakings. To see and hear rain approaching, and you escape being wet, you will succeed in your plans, and your designs will mature rapidly. To be sitting in the house and see through the window a downpour of rain, denotes that you will possess fortune, and passionate love will be requited. To hear the patter of rain on the roof, denotes a realization of domestic bliss and joy. Fortune will come in a small way. To dream that your house is leaking during a rain, if the water is clear, foretells that illicit pleasure will come to you rather unexpectedly; but if filthy or muddy, you may expect the reverse, and also exposure. To find yourself regretting some duty unperformed while listening to the rain, denotes that you will seek pleasure at the expense of another's sense of propriety and justice. To see it rain on others, foretells that you will exclude friends from your confidence. For a young woman to dream of getting her clothes wet and soiled while out in a rain, denotes that she will entertain some person indiscreetly, and will suffer the suspicions of friends for the unwise yielding to foolish enjoyments. To see it raining on farm stock, foretells disappointment in business, and unpleasantness in social circles. Stormy rains are always unfortunate. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Geography | The precipitation of liquid water particles in the form of drops of more than about 0. 5 mm in diameter. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Liquid precipitation in the form of drops of appreciable size. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Rain To rain cats and dogs. In northern mythology the cat is supposed to have great influence on the weather, and English sailors still say, "The cat has a gale of wind in her tail," when she is unusually frisky. Witches that rode upon the storms were said to assume the form of cats; and the stormy north-west wind is called the cat's-nose in the Harz even at the present day. The dog is a signal of wind, like the wolf, both which animals were attendants of Odin, the storm-god. In old German pictures the wind is figured as the "head of a dog or wolf," from which blasts issue. The cat therefore symbolises the down-pouring rain, and the dog the strong gusts of wind which accompany a rainstorm; and a "rain of cats and dogs" is a heavy rain with wind. (See Cat and Dog.) The French catadoupe or catadupe means a waterfall. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Swiss German (schiffe, seichen). (references) |
Science | Water that condenses from vapor in the atmosphere and falls to the Earth as drops. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Rain is a form of precipitation, as are snow, sleet, hail, dew and fog. Rain forms when separate drops of water fall to the Earth's surface from clouds. Not all rain reaches the surface, however; some evaporates while falling through dry air, a type of precipitation called virga.Rain plays a major role in the hydrologic cycle in which moisture from the oceans evaporates, condenses into clouds, precipitates back to earth, and eventually returns to the ocean via streams and rivers to repeat the cycle again.
The amount of rainfall is measured using a rain gauge. It is expressed as the depth of water that collects on a flat surface, and is measured to the nearest 0.25mm.
Falling raindrops are often described as "tear-shaped", round at the bottom and narrowing towards the top, but this is incorrect. Small raindrops are nearly spherical. Larger ones become increasingly flattened, like hamburger buns; very large ones are shaped like parachutes. Large raindrops fall faster than small ones.
Several cultures have developed a great aversion to rain and have developed numerous protection devices such as umbrellas and rain coats. Many people also prefer to stay inside on rainy days.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rain."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
RAIN | English | Project Reversing Acidification in Norway | Environment |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: RainSynonyms: pelting (n), rainfall (n), rainwater (n), rain down (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Artlessness | Phrase: Davus sum non Oedipus; liberavi animam meam; "as frank as rain on cherry blossoms". |
Certainty | Adverb: certainly; Adjective: for certain, certes, sure, no doubt, doubtless, and no mistake, flagrante delicto, sure enough, to be sure, of course, as a matter of course, a coup sur, to a certainty; in truth; (truly); at any rate, at all events; without fail; coute que coute, coute qu'il coute; whatever may happen, if the worst come to the worst; come what may, happen what may, come what will; sink or swim; rain or shine. |
Dryness | Adjective: dry, anhydrous, arid; adust, arescent; dried. Verb: undamped; juiceless, sapless; sear; husky; rainless, without rain, fine; dry as a bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a biscuit. |
Liquefaction | Verb: render liquid; liquefy, run; deliquesce; melt. (heat); solve; dissolve, resolve; liquate; hold in solution; condense, precipitate, rain. |
Measurement | Bathometer, galvanometer, heliometer, interferometer, odometer, ombrometer, pantometer, pluviometer, pneumatometer, pneumometer, radiometer, refractometer, respirometer, rheometer, spirometer, telemeter, udometer, vacuometer, variometer, viameter, thermometer, thermistor (heat), barometer (air), anemometer (wind), dynamometer, goniometer (angle) meter; landmark; (limit); balance, scale; (weight); marigraph, pneumatograph, stethograph; rain gauge, rain gage; voltmeter(volts), ammeter(amps); spectrophotometer (light absorbance); mass spectrophotometer(molecular mass); geiger counter, scintillation counter(radioactivity); pycnometer (liquid density); graduated cylinder, volumetric flask (volume); radar gun (velocity); radar (distance); side-looking radar (shape, topography); sonar (depth in water); light meter (light intensity); clock, watch, stopwatch, chronometer (time); anemometer (wind velocity); densitometer (color intensity). |
Resolution | At any rate, at any risk, at any hazard at any price, at any cost, at any sacrifice; at all hazards, at all risks, at all events; a bis ou a blanc; cost what it may; coute; a tort et a travers; once for all; neck or nothing; rain or shine. |
River | Rain, rainfall; serein; shower, scud; downpour; driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst; hyetology, hyetography; predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin; mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash; dropping. Verb: falling weather; northeaster, hurricane, typhoon. |
Rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks; pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in; mizzle. | |
Hydrodynamics; hydraulics, hydraulicostatics; rain gauge, flowmeter; pegology. | |
Sufficiency | Abound, exuberate, teem, flow, stream, rain, shower down; pour, pour in; swarm; bristle with; superabound. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I don't make the rain. I just have the best umbrella (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) It can't rain all the time (The Crow; writing credit: David J. Schow, John Shirley) A man with an umbrella is expecting rain. (The Avengers; writing credit: Don MacPherson. Based on the television series by Sydney Newman.) They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) A guy standing on a station platform in the rain, with a comical look on his face, because his insides have been kicked out. (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison) | |
Lyrics | Storming outside, rain (Summer Rain; performing artist: Carl Thomas) I will love you for the falling rain, oh oh oh oh (The Earth, The Sun, The Rain; performing artist: Color Me Badd) I've seen fire and I've seen rain (Fire And Rain; performing artist: James Taylor) Buy for me the rain, my darling, buy for me the rain; (Buy For Me the Rain; performing artist: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) Now I, I wish it would rain down, down on me (I Wish It Would Rain Down; performing artist: Phil Collins) | |
Clever | A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. (references; author: Mark Twain) Why is it that rain drops but snow falls? (references; author: unknown) Murphy's Law isn't recursive. Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rain (2002) Love in the Rain (1973) Go Away Rain Rain (1972) Rain for a Dusty Summer (1971) Walk in the Spring Rain (1970) | |
Song Titles | A Forest In The Rain (performing artist: Tom Chapin) BABY THE RAIN MUST FALL (performing artist: Glenn Yarbrough ) November Rain (performing artist: Guns N' Roses) Fire and Rain (performing artist: James Taylor) Walking in The Rain (performing artist: Love Unlimited) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Robert Walsh by rain barrels, potential mosquito breeding site, St. Johns, Virgin Islands. Credit: CDC. |  | Domestic species are those that breed close to human habitation. Here we see jars of rain water containing larvae of Culex pipiens. Credit: CDC. |
 | Once a vast carpet of healthy vegetation, the Amazon rain forest is changing rapidly. This image of Bolivia shows dramatic deforestation in the Amazon Basin. Loggers have cut long paths into the forest, while ranchers have cleared large blocks for their herds. Fanning out from these clear-cut areas are settlements built in radial arrangements of fields and farms. Healthy vegetation appears bright red in this image. Credit: NASA. |  | Attempting to ford a wash after a heavy rain Reconnaissance party of Charles Schanck. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | After the rain About 40 miles north of Valdez Level party of H. P. Odessey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Waterfall on Kauai seen through the rain forest. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Rain forest. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A rainwater collector - part of an acid rain observation network that extends from Hilo all the way up Mauna Loa to the observatory at various elevations. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Sea surface from approximately 500 feet altitude in Hurricane Belle. Flying through rain band. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | NOAA P-3 flying in eye of hurricane - note arcuate rain bands below aircraft. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |
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| "Atlas Please Stop the Rain" by Lewis Long Commentary: "Shot of the Atlas Statue in Manhattan on a rainy Novermber day." | "Rain Comming" by Hung Truong Commentary: "Rain comming, still on the car... and here is Prenn mountain pass, a lovely place of Dalat, Vietnam." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | Wipe; clean; swoosh; rain; downpour; swab. | | Raindrop; rain; bloop; blooping; bloops; raindrops; rainfall; dripping; drip. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Austin O'malley | Sorrow, like rain, makes roses and mud. |
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. |
| Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall. | |
Hosea Ballou | Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. |
Lucretius | The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. |
Mencius | If Heaven wants to rain, or your mother to marry again, nothing can prevent them. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off. |
William Shakespeare | Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | He had met her before breakfast as he was returning from a walk with his little boys, when it had been just beginning to rain. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty |
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 |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | That was a smell of air and rain and turf and corduroy |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Their voices were raised a little over the hollow beating of the rain. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | However, I made a shift to go forward till I came to a part of the field where the corn had been laid by the rain and wind |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for me too. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Situation Occurred in Minkebe, Makokou and gold-mining camps deep in the rain forest. (references) | |
If so, runoff from rain or flood water may be draining directly into your well causing contamination. (references) | ||
Throughout the tropics, seed dispersal and pollination activities by bats are vital to rain forest survival. (references) | ||
Business | More than 1.3 billion tons of coal a year is the main cause China’s acid rain and SO2 emissions. (references) | |
Equipment is needed for monitoring networks in Chinese urban areas and in the Acid Rain and SO2 Control Zones. (references) | ||
Thirty percent of China’s total territory suffers from acid rain, most of if falling in the south part of the country. (references) | ||
Economic History | China | Acid rain falls on 30% of the country. (references) |
Liberia | Liberia has 40% of West Africa's rain forest. (references) | |
Morocco | Over 90 percent of the agriculture is rain fed. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Gabon | Several thousand Pygmies live in the country, most in large tracts of still-intact rain forest in the northeast. (references) |
Central African Republic | Despite Constitutional protection, there is societal discrimination against Pygmies (Ba'Aka), the earliest known inhabitants of the rain forest in the southern part of the country, who make up approximately 1 to 2 percent of the country's population. (references) | |
Political Economy | BRAZIL | A shortage of rain has led to electricity rationing (20 percent reduction from 2000 consumption levels). (references) |
Travel | Mexico | It will rain occasionally in other months. (references) |
Singapore | Humidity is very high and rain showers are frequent. (references) | |
France | Rain is frequent and most experienced travelers carry collapsible umbrellas. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them. In the lines following, addressed to an Emperor in exile by Father Gassalasca Jape, the reverend poet appears to hint his sense of the improduence of turning about to face Retribution when it is talking exercise: What, what! Dom Pedro, you desire to go Back to Brazil to end your days in quiet? Why, what assurance have you 'twould be so? 'Tis not so long since you were in a riot, And your dear subjects showed a will to fly at Your throat and shake you like a rat. You know That empires are ungrateful; are you certain Republics are less handy to get hurt in? |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | While the American liberals are blaming Bush for the American drought, the European liberals are blaming all the rain over in Czechoslovakia and Germany on Bush because he didn't sign the Kyoto Treaty. |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | On the question of acid rain, which concerns people in many areas of the United States and Canada, I'm proposing a research program that doubles our current funding. |
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| "Rain" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.50% of the time. "Rain" is used about 6,340 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.5% | 5,611 | 1,755 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.9% | 438 | 13,172 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.51% | 286 | 17,222 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.09% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,340 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "rain" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Rain | Last name | 400 | 20,012 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Rain" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the rain". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "rain". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Matri | N/A | Biblical | Rain |
| Rain | Female | English | The rain |
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Expressions using "rain": accumulative rain gauge ♦ acid rain ♦ after the rain ♦ be as right as rain ♦ be spoiled by rain ♦ beneficial rain ♦ convective rain ♦ curtain of rain ♦ cyclonic rain ♦ drenched with rain ♦ drenching rain ♦ driving rain ♦ equinoctial rain ♦ fine rain ♦ freezing rain ♦ golden rain ♦ heavy rain ♦ if the rain keeps off ♦ in pouring rain ♦ it threatens rain ♦ light rain ♦ make rain ♦ mud rain ♦ overtaken by the rain ♦ pelt of rain ♦ pelting rain ♦ plenteous rain ♦ pouring rain ♦ pray god for rain ♦ rain and snow ♦ rain band ♦ rain barrel ♦ rain belt ♦ rain bird ♦ rain buckets ♦ rain cats and dogs ♦ rain check ♦ rain cloud ♦ rain dance ♦ rain date ♦ rain down ♦ rain drop ♦ rain forest ♦ rain forest biome ♦ rain fowl ♦ rain gage ♦ rain gauge ♦ rain glass ♦ rain goose ♦ rain hat ♦ rain hood ♦ rain in torrents ♦ rain like mad ♦ rain maker ♦ rain making ♦ rain off ♦ rain or shine ♦ rain out ♦ rain pillar ♦ rain print ♦ rain prints ♦ rain quail ♦ rain recorder ♦ rain recording gauge ♦ rain rocket ♦ rain shower ♦ rain tree ♦ rain water ♦ rain worm ♦ right as rain ♦ screech rain ♦ scurry of rain ♦ seek shelter from the rain ♦ sheeted rain ♦ shower of rain ♦ sign of rain ♦ snow and rain ♦ soft rain ♦ storage rain gauge ♦ take a rain check on ♦ there is a threat of a rain ♦ there is a threat of rain ♦ thin rain ♦ torrential rain ♦ torrents of rain ♦ totalizer rain gauge ♦ tropical rain forest ♦ walk in the rain. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "rain": rain-affected, rain-as-a-symbol, rain-bearing, rain-bloated, rain-blur, rain-blurred, rain-borne, rain-bow, rain-causing, rain-cloud, rain-clouded, rain-clouds, rain-dances, rain-darkened, rain-delayed, rain-drenched, rain-driven, rain-drops, rain-drowned, rain-fed, rain-filled, rain-forest, rain-forests, rain-free, Rain-giver, rain-gutter, rain-hit, rain-interrupted, rain-laden, rain-lashed, rain-laws, rain-maker, rain-makers, rain-making, rain-out, rain-proof, rain-resistant, rain-restricted, rain-ruined, rain-scoured, rain-sensor, rain-shadow, rain-shedding, rain-slashed, rain-smeared, rain-soaked, rain-sodden, rain-softened, rain-soggy, rain-spattered, rain-spotted, rain-storm, rain-streaked, rain-swept, rain-swollen, Rain-tight, rain-washed, rain-water, rain-water-spume-blood-oil, rain-wet, rain-wrapped. | |
Ending with "rain": acid-rain, after-rain, pissing-with-rain, spring-rain. | |
Containing "rain": acid-rain-causing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
rain forest | 9,913 | rain picture | 232 |
rain | 4,624 | rain bird | 225 |
acid rain | 1,398 | purple rain | 215 |
rain gauge | 1,286 | rain wolfs | 213 |
rain forest cafe | 1,215 | rain drop | 208 |
taylor rain | 1,192 | rain umbrella | 203 |
tropical rain forest | 964 | rain boot | 193 |
amazon rain forest | 927 | singing in the rain | 193 |
rain forest animal | 755 | kind rain shes | 183 |
costa rica rain forest | 582 | rain barrel | 176 |
rain gear | 505 | rain storm | 175 |
rain gutter | 483 | help pour rain | 174 |
rain forest picture | 382 | rain forest sound | 166 |
november rain | 294 | rain forest plant | 163 |
rain forest tour | 286 | rain jacket | 161 |
misty rain | 263 | rain barrels | 160 |
rain suit | 250 | rain man | 158 |
rain coat | 247 | dayton rain | 146 |
meteor rain | 244 | caught in the rain | 141 |
rain through | 232 | rain chain | 138 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "rain"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | reën. (various references) | |
Albanian | rrymë (current, drift, effluent, jet, Niagara, nullah, onflow, outpour, spurt, squirt, stream, thrashing-floor, threshing floor, tide, wave), rrëke (Beck, bourn, Bourne, burn, deluge, flood, flow, gush, runlet, runnel, stream, torrent), stina e shirave, shiu (pluvial), shi (rainfall), qaj (bawl, bewail, cry, deplore, lament, mourn, weep, whimper), përrua (Beck, bourn, Bourne, branch, Brook, brooklet, Creek, flow, nullah, small river, Spruit, stream, streamlet, torrent, watercourse), hedh (aim, cast, cheat, chuck, dart, dash, diddle, discard, dispose of, down-load, drop, evade, flash, fling, flip, fob, fob off, have, heave, hose, hurl, land, launch, pitch, pour out, project, push, release, scrap, send, set down, sink, sling, spill, sprinkle, strew, swing, tap, throw, throw away, throw down, throw over, toss, touch off, transfer, winnow), derdhet (Debouch, flood, flow, flow in to, flow into, meet, overflow, pour, regorge, rill, run out, run over, sluice, spill, stream), bie shi (it rains). (various references) | |
Arabic | مطر (hail, wet), قطر (country, distil, dribble, drip, drop, land, percolate, region, territory, tow, towing, trail, trickle, tug), غدق (inundate), تمطر (shower), عاصفة مطرية (rainstorm), صب (cast, casting, cut, decant, discharge, flow, imbue, infusion, lave, molding, moulding, paint, pigment, pour, shaping, teem), إنهمر. (various references) | |
Asturian | lluvia. (various references) | |
Aymara | jallu. (various references) | |
Basque | euri. (various references) | |
Bemba | imfula. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | sootaa (to rain). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | реки, градушка (hail, storm of hail), валеж (fall, precipitate, precipitation), вали (it is raining, it rains), за дъжд (rainproof, rain-tight), лея (dip, found, pour, shed, shower), потоци, изливам (disgorge, effuse, pour, regurgitate, run, throw, tip off, unload, wreak), дъждовен (juicy, moist, pluvial, rainy, soft, soppy, wet), дъжд (avalanche, precipitation, shower, wet). (various references) | |
Cebuano | ulan. (various references) | |
Chamorro | uchan. (various references) | |
Chinese | 雨 . (various references) | |
Cornish | glaw. (various references) | |
Czech | pršet (hail down, pour down). (various references) | |
Danish | regn (rainfall), regne. (various references) | |
Dutch | regen (rainfall), regenen. (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | tamia. (various references) | |
Esperanto | pluvo, pluvi. (various references) | |
Faeroese | regna, regn. (various references) | |
Farsi | باریدن (Shower), بارندگی (Rainfall), باران , بارش (Downfall, Rainfall). (various references) | |
Finnish | sade (shower), sataa. (various references) | |
French | pluie (rainfall), pleuvoir (to rain). (various references) | |
Frisian | rein. (various references) | |
German | regnen (shower, sprinkle, to rain), Regen (move, shower, stir). (various references) | |
Greek | βροχή (precipitation, rainfall, torrent). (various references) | |
Hebrew | גשם (shower). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zápor (downpour, drencher, driving rain, flurry, gust of rain, pelt, pour, rain shower, shower, volley). (various references) | |
Icelandic | rigna, regn. (various references) | |
Indonesian | hujan (precipitation). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | maquk. (various references) | |
Irish | báisteach. (various references) | |
Italian | pioggia (shower, wet), piovere (pour). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 降雨 (rainfall), 降雨 (rainfall), 雨 , レーニン主義 (beggar, homeless, label, labor union, lane, layer, layered cut, layered look, layman, layoff, layout, layout-system, lecture, leg guards, leggings, Leghorn, lei, Leninism, leopon, leotard, lexicon, philosophy of life, racialism, racism, rail, rainbow fish, raincoat, rainy, raise, range, ranger, rape, rapier, rare, rare metal, ray, Ray-Ban, rayonne, ray-tracing, record, recorder, recording, recreation, regatta, reggae, regular, regular chain store, regular member, regulation, Regulus, requiem). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | レイン , こうう (aerospace, rainfall), あめ (candy). (various references) | |
Kongo | noka mvula (to rain). (various references) | |
Korean | 비 (Broom, Invoking). (various references) | |
Macedonian | dozd. (various references) | |
Malay | hujan. (various references) | |
Manx | jeein, fliaghey (precipitation, rainfall, wet), ceau fliaghey, ceau (aim, carry, consume, corner, corner on road, dart, fall, hang, last, loose, pass, pelt, rake, run out, shoot, shower; launch, shy; weather, spend, throw, wear). (various references) | |
Maori | marangai. (various references) | |
Maya | chaak (pot of food, to boil, woodcutter). (various references) | |
Norwegian | regn. (various references) | |
Occitan | pluèja, plòure. (various references) | |
Papago | juhki. (various references) | |
Papiamen | yobe. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ainray.(various references) | |
Polish | deszcz. (various references) | |
Portuguese | chuva (rainfall, water), chover (pour, shower, to rain). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | chuva. (various references) | |
Provencal | pluèja. (various references) | |
Romanian | ploua (shower), ploaie (downpour, flight, rainfall, storm). (various references) | |
Romansch | plievgia. (various references) | |
Romany | brishìnt. (various references) | |
Ruanda | imvura. (various references) | |
Russian | дождь. (various references) | |
Samoan | timu. (various references) | |
Scottish | uisge (water), sil (distil, drop), fearthuinn. (various references) | |
Sepedi | pula. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pljusak (downfall, downpour, drench, drencher, rainstorm, shower, soaker), padati (fall, recede, shut in, snow), obasuti (besiege, bespatter, hurl, shower), kišni (pluvial, pluvious, showery), kiša (onfall). (various references) | |
Shona | mvura (water). (various references) | |
Sicilian | pioggia. (various references) | |
Spanish | llover (drench, hail down, shower), lluvia (downpour, drench, pelt, rainfall, shower, stream, volley, wet). (various references) | |
Sranan | alen. (various references) | |
Swahili | mvua. (various references) | |
Swazi | lí-tulu. (various references) | |
Swedish | regn (rainfall, wet), regna (spatter). (various references) | |
Tagalog | ulán. (various references) | |
Thai | ฝนตก, ฝน, ตกลงมาเหมือนฝนเท, ฤดูฝน. (various references) | |
Turkish | yağmur (barrage, deluge, flight, hail, hailstorm, pluvial, pluvious, waterworks). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ygal (precipitation), яagyю, яagmyr (precipitation). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сипатися (pour in), сипати (dust), крапати (drip, drop, weep), потік (avalanche, cataract, current, deluge, downpour, flood, flow, outpour, river, spate, splurge, torrent), період тропічних дощів, дощ (rainfall). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tốt lành cả, không biết cách làm ăn, đâu vào đó cả. (various references) | |
Welsh | bwrw glaw. (various references) | |
Yucatec | k'aaxal ha', k'aaxal, ha' (lake, loch, water), chaak. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | 2. imi. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aqua, aquae, aquam, aquarum, aquarumque, aquas, aquasque, aquis, imber, imbre, imbrem, imbres, imbri, imbris, pluam, pluant, pluat, pluerat, plueret, pluerit, pluet, plui, pluit, pluitque, pluvia, pluviae, pluviam, pluviarum, pluvias, pluviis. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | rinan. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 23 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ventus aquilo dissipat pluvias et facies tristis linguam detrahentem |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | A northerne wind scatereth reynes; and a dreri face the bacbitende tunge. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | As the north wind gives birth to rain, so is an angry face caused by a tongue saying evil secretly. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 23 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang hangin sa amihan nagadala ug ulan; Busa mao man ang usa ka malibakon nga dila sa usa ka masuk-anon nga panagway. |
| Croatian | Sjeverni vjetar donosi dažd, a himben jezik srdito lice. |
| Danish | Nordenvind fremkalder Regn, bagtalende Tunge vrede Miner. |
| Dutch | De noordenwind verdrijft den regen, en een vergramd aangezicht de verborgen tong. |
| Finnish | Pohjatuuli saa aikaan sateen ja salainen kielittely vihaiset kasvot. |
| French | Le vent du nord enfante la pluie, Et la langue mystérieuse un visage irrité. |
| German | Der Nordwind bringt Ungewitter, und die heimliche Zunge macht saures Angesicht. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Angin utara pasti mendatangkan hujan; begitu pula pergunjingan pasti menimbulkan kemarahan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa angin utara membawa akan hujan, demikianpun lidah pengumpat mengadakan beberapa muka muram. |
| Italian | La tramontana porta la pioggia, un parlare in segreto provoca lo sdegno sul volto. |
| Maori | ¶ E mauria ana mai e te hauraro he ua: e peratia ana hoki e te arero ngautuara, he kanohi pukuriri. |
| Norwegian | Nordenvind føder regn, og en tunge som hvisker i lønndom, volder sure miner. |
| Portuguese | O vento norte traz chuva, e a língua caluniadora, o rosto irado. |
| Rumanian | Vkntul de miazqnoapte aduce ploaia, wi limba clevetitoare aduce o fayq mkhnitq. - |
| Russian | уЕЧЕТОЩК ЧЕФЕТ РТПЙЪЧПДЙФ ДПЦДШ, Б ФБКОЩК СЪЩЛ--ОЕДПЧПМШОЩЕ МЙГБ. |
| Spanish | El viento del norte trae la lluvia; y la lengua detractora, el rostro airado. |
| Swedish | Nordanvind föder regn och en tasslande tunga mulna ansikten. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rain": rainband, rainbands, rainbird, rainbirds, rainbow, rainbowlike, rainbows, raincheck, rainchecks, raincoat, raincoats, raindrop, raindrops, rained, rainfall, rainfalls, rainforest, rainforests, rainier, rainiest, rainily, raining, rainless, rainmaker, rainmakers, rainmaking, rainmakings, rainout, rainouts, rainproof, rains, rainspout, rainspouts, rainsquall, rainsqualls, rainstorm, rainstorms, rainwash, rainwashed, rainwashes, rainwashing, rainwater, rainwaters, rainwear, rainy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rain": betweenbrain, birdbrain, brain, constrain, crackbrain, detrain, distrain, drain, drivetrain, endbrain, engrain, entrain, eyestrain, featherbrain, forebrain, grain, grosgrain, hindbrain, housetrain, ingrain, interstrain, lamebrain, midbrain, mistrain, multigrain, murrain, overstrain, overtrain, pretrain, quatrain, rattlebrain, refrain, restrain, retrain, scatterbrain, seatrain, sprain, strain, suzerain, terrain, train, vitrain. (additional references) | |
Words containing "rain": betweenbrains, birdbrained, birdbrains, braincase, braincases, brainchild, brainchildren, brained, brainiac, brainiacs, brainier, brainiest, brainily, braininess, braininesses, braining, brainish, brainless, brainlessly, brainlessness, brainlessnesses, brainpan, brainpans, brainpower, brainpowers, brains, brainsick, brainsickly, brainstorm, brainstormed, brainstormer, brainstormers, brainstorming, brainstormings, brainstorms, brainteaser, brainteasers, brainwash, brainwashed, brainwasher, brainwashers, brainwashes, brainwashing, brainwashings, brainy, constrained, constrainedly, constraining, constrains, constraint, constraints. (additional references) | |
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"Rain" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arain, aran, Arin, Arpin, eain, erian, frain, krain, Krajin, orain, orian, prain, Raan, rabin, racin, radin, raein, raent, rafi, rafin, ragin, Ragini, Rahi, Rahn, rahnd, rai, raic, raif, raik, railn, raina, raine, Rainha, raink, raint, raion, raiq, Rair, raisn, raiun, raiyn, raiz, Rajim, Rakim, rakin, ramin, rane, rani, rania, ranin, ranit, raniz, rann, raon, rapin, rapinz, rarin, rarint, rasim, rasin, ratin, raun, Rauno, Ravn, Raym, rayn, Rayna, Razin, razn, rdai, reink, reiz, reni, reon, rexin, rhin, rhinn, Riaan, riaf, rian, riana, riand, Riane, riang, Riano, riant, riav, Riina, rin, rina, Rini, rinn, rinq, rion, rlin, rohin, roink, roni, ronin, roxin, rsin, ruien, ruint, rwin, Ryani, urian, yain. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rain" (pronounced rā"n) |
| 3 | r ā" n | brain, constrain, crane, drain, grain, ingrain, overtrain, refrain, reign, rein, restrain, retrain, sprain, strain, train. |
| 2 | -ā" n | fain, Fane, feign, abstain, alane, arcane, arraign, ascertain, attain, bane, blain, butane, Cain, campaign, cane, chain, champagne, Champaign, cocaine, complain, contain, delaine, detain, disdain, domain, entertain, explain, gain, germane, humane, inane, inhumane, insane, Jane, kain, Kane, lain, Lane, legerdemain, main, maintain, mane, moraine, mundane, obtain, ordain, pain, pane, pertain, plain, plane, preordain, profane, regain, remain, retain, Romaine, sain, sane, slain, stain, sustain, Swain, terrain, Thane, twain, urbane, vain, vane, vein, wain, wane. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: airn, rani. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: ain, air, ani, ran, ria, rin. | |
-2 letters: ai, an, ar, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: airns, bairn, brain, cairn, dinar, drain, garni, grain, inarm, infra, invar, nadir, naira, naric, naris, noria, rains, rainy, ranid, ranis, ravin, rawin, riant, sarin, train. | |
+2 letters: acinar, airing, airman, airmen, aldrin, aliner, antiar, anuria, anuric, arcing, arisen, arming, arnica, aroint, arshin, arsine, arsino, bairns, baring, binary, brains, brainy, cairns, cairny, carina, caring, carlin, carnie, crania, daring, denari, dinars, drains, durian, earing, fainer, farina, faring, firman, gainer, gradin, grains, grainy, gratin, haring, harmin, harpin, hernia, inaner, inarch, inarms, infare, inroad, instar, invars, inward, inwrap, jarina, larine, linear, margin, marina, marine, marlin, martin, nadirs, nailer, nairas, naiver, narial, narine, norias, nutria, oaring, onagri, ordain, origan, panier, parian, paring, pirana, qindar, qintar, rabbin, racing, radian, raging, rained, raisin, raking, rancid, ranids, rapine, raping, rapini, raring, rasing, ratine, rating, ration, ratlin, ravine, raving, ravins, rawins, raxing, raying, razing, reagin, regain, regina, remain, renail, retain, retina, rhinal, riband, rumina, santir, sarins, shairn, sprain, strain, taring, trains, trinal, unfair, unhair, urania, uranic, urinal, vainer, wanier, waring, zanier. | |
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