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RAINING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Falling in drops or as if falling like rain
Example:
watched the raining apple blossoms
Classified under:
Similar:
descending (coming down or downward)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb rain
Context examples:
“We may thank our stars that it is not raining. I don’t think we can even venture to smoke to pass the time. However, it’s a two to one chance that we get something to pay us for our trouble.”
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But instead of water raining down from clouds and filling lakes and seas as on Earth, on Titan what rains down is methane and ethane - hydrocarbons that we think of as gases but that behave as liquids in Titan's frigid climate.
(The First Global Geologic Map of Titan Completed, NASA)
It had ceased raining.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
When analyzing the data, the scientists noticed that during its first Ganymede flyby, Galileo fortuitously crossed right over Ganymede’s auroral regions, as evidenced by the ions it observed raining down onto the surface of the moon’s polar cap.
(Fresh Results from NASA’s Galileo Spacecraft 20 Years On, NASA)
Catherine went every five minutes to the clock, threatening on each return that, if it still kept on raining another five minutes, she would give up the matter as hopeless.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He was only dimly aware that it was raining.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But instead of water raining down from clouds and filling lakes and seas as on Earth, on Titan it's methane and ethane - hydrocarbons that we think of as gases but that behave as liquids in Titan's frigid climate.
(New Models Suggest Titan Lakes Are Explosion Craters, NASA)
You could have had kilometer-thick piles of moon sediment raining down on Mars in the early parts of the planet's history, and there are enigmatic sedimentary deposits on Mars with no explanation as to how they got there, said Purdue's David Minton, assistant professor of Earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences.
(Mars May Have Had Rings, and May Once Again, VOA News)
It's stopped raining.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
"Has it?" When he realized what I was talking about, that there were twinkle-bells of sunshine in the room, he smiled like a weather man, like an ecstatic patron of recurrent light, and repeated the news to Daisy. "What do you think of that? It's stopped raining."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
