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Definition: Rainwater |
RainwaterNoun1. Drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rainwater" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Synonym: RainwaterSynonym: rain (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Rainwater |
| English words defined with "rainwater": cistern ♦ drip, drip mold, drip mould ♦ gutter ♦ percolation, pool, puddle ♦ rain barrel ♦ trough ♦ water butt. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rainwater": Cripples ♦ nadi, National Health Insurance Program, non-point source pollution ♦ Overland Flow ♦ rainwater head, Recharge Area, ridge terrace. (references) |
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Screenplays | Now why don't you just take it easy, Group Captain, and please make me a drink of grain alcohol and rainwater, and help yourself to whatever you'd like. (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | 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. |
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Health | Items that collect rainwater or are used to store water (for example, plastic containers, 55-gallon drums, buckets, or used automobile tires) should be covered or properly discarded. (references) | |
Business | Among these projects the major one is the Olympic Village which will be built by using wind, solar and thermal energy and reusing rainwater, a real village, it will be home to 16,000 athletes in 2004 and then to 6,000 residents after the Olympic Games. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Rainwater" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.87% of the time. "Rainwater" is used about 173 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) | 50.87% | 88 | 35,154 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 46.24% | 80 | 37,112 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.89% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 173 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "rainwater" 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 |
| Rainwater | Last name | 2,000 | 5,182 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "rainwater": rainwater drainage ♦ rainwater head ♦ rainwater pipe. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "rainwater": rainwater-butt. | |
| 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 |
rainwater harvesting | 62 |
rainwater | 44 |
marvin rainwater | 20 |
rainwater collection | 18 |
gregg rainwater | 17 |
josh rainwater | 15 |
rainwater richard | 14 |
rainwater restaurant | 10 |
rainwater tank | 8 |
management rainwater | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "rainwater"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ujë shiu. (various references) | |
Arabic | مياه الأمطار. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | дъждовна вода. (various references) | |
Chinese | 雨水 . (various references) | |
Danish | vaadt og toert fallout maales ved inddampning af regnvandsproever i beholdere (liquid or dry fallout is measured through the evaporation of rainwater samples collected in containers). (various references) | |
Dutch | regenwaterbak (rainwater cistern), regenwaterafvoer (rainwater pipe), hemelwaterafvoer (downcomer, downpipe, downspout, rainpipe, rainwater pipe, roof leader), de natte en droge neerslag wordt gecontroleerd door indampen van het regenwater dat wordt opgevangen (liquid or dry fallout is measured through the evaporation of rainwater samples collected in containers). (various references) | |
Finnish | vesiränni (downcomer, downpipe, downspout, rainpipe, rainwater pipe, roof leader), syöksytorvi (downcomer, downpipe, downspout, rainpipe, rainwater pipe, roof leader). (various references) | |
French | eaux de pluie. (various references) | |
German | Regenwasser. (various references) | |
Greek | βρόχινο νερό. (various references) | |
Italian | acqua piovana (rain water, run-off, storm water, surface water). (various references) | |
Korean | 빗물. (various references) | |
Manx | ushtey fliaghee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ainwaterray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | água de chuva. (various references) | |
Russian | дождевая вода (rain-water). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kišnica. (various references) | |
Spanish | agua llovediza, agua de lluvia (rain water, run-off, storm water, surface water). (various references) | |
Swedish | regnvatten. (various references) | |
Ukranian | дощова вода. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aqua, aquae, aquam, aquarum, aquarumque, aquas, aquasque, aquis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rainwater": rainwaters. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rainwater" (pronounced rā"nwô'ter) |
| 4 | -w ô' t er | backwater, breakwater, deepwater, floodwater, freshwater, headwater, Tidewater, underwater, wastewater. |
| 3 | -ô' t er | granddaughter, manslaughter, stepdaughter. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| 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. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 69 6E 77 61 74 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- .. -. .--. .- - . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110111 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a i n w a t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0069 006E 0077 0061 0074 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)526775808967867184 |
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