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raindrop - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun droplet of rainwater that has just fallen or is falling from the sky .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Etymologies
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Compound of rain + drop , attested in Old English (reġndropa, rēndropa).
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The energy of the falling raindrop is all dissipated as heat, sound and (most of it) kinetic energy into the ground.
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY: Rain Power | Inhabitat 2008
And among all the trillions of electrified pixels, a lone landscape architect — perhaps he's a descendant of Arnold de Ville or Harold N. Fisk, but definitely has watched Dr. Strangelove and The Matrix Reloaded one too many times — meticulously tracks the migration of a single water molecule: from that first dangling raindrop from a Category 5 hurricane all the way to its first contact with the earth, and then through its frothy journey from rivulets to streams to rivers to cataracts to reservoirs to the fountains of Rome.
Super-Versailles 2007
And among all the trillions of electrified pixels, a lone landscape architect — perhaps he's a descendant of Arnold de Ville or Harold N. Fisk, but definitely has watched Dr. Strangelove and The Matrix Reloaded one too many times — meticulously tracks the migration of a single water molecule: from that first dangling raindrop from a Category 5 hurricane all the way to its first contact with the earth, and then through its frothy journey from rivulets to streams to rivers to cataracts to reservoirs to the fountains of Rome.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
The amount of force exerted by a raindrop is a function of the terminal velocity and mass of the raindrop.
Soil erosion and deposition 2008
The long stroke of the raindrop , which is the drop and its path at once, being our impression of a shower, shows us how certainly our impression is the effect of the lagging, and not of the haste, of our senses.
The Spirit of Place and Other Essays Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884
The long stroke of the raindrop , which is the drop and its path at once, being our impression of a shower, shows us how certainly our impression is the effect of the lagging, and not of the haste, of our senses.
Essays Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884
We have heavy rain today and I was looking for a photo of what raindrop s really look like (it isn't a "raindrop" shape) check out this movie
tingilinde: 2009
We have heavy rain today and I was looking for a photo of what raindrop s really look like (it isn't a "raindrop" shape) check out this movie
the shape of rain 2009
The "raindrop " effects and audacious harmonic progressions reminisce to Chopin and Brahms and look ahead to Ravel and Frank Martin.
Audiophile Audition Headlines 2009
Most raindrop s are round or doughnut shaped, not "raindrop" shaped.
Arizona Daily Wildcat 2009
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