Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Water that has fallen as rain and contains little dissolved mineral matter.
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- noun
Rainfall . - noun Water (for a house etc) sourced from
rain which has not joined aspring ,stream orriver ,pond ,lake orsea .
Etymologies
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Examples
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First, go up yourself or send the gardener, and check the roof drains and gutters to assure that the rainwater is able to flow freely and quickly off the roof.
The Sky Is Falling 2008
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First, go up yourself or send the gardener, and check the roof drains and gutters to assure that the rainwater is able to flow freely and quickly off the roof.
The Sky Is Falling 2008
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DIOP (through translator): We constructed what we call rainwater basins, which allow us to stock rainwater and allow farmers who are poor to cultivate crops after the rain seasons.
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Water is withdrawn but is generally replaced or recharged when rainwater from the surface percolates downward.
Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone? Bill Chameides 2010
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Water is withdrawn but is generally replaced or recharged when rainwater from the surface percolates downward.
Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone? Bill Chameides 2010
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Water is withdrawn but is generally replaced or recharged when rainwater from the surface percolates downward.
Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone? Bill Chameides 2010
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Water is withdrawn but is generally replaced or recharged when rainwater from the surface percolates downward.
Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone? Bill Chameides 2010
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Water is withdrawn but is generally replaced or recharged when rainwater from the surface percolates downward.
Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone? Bill Chameides 2010
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Water is withdrawn but is generally replaced or recharged when rainwater from the surface percolates downward.
Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone? Bill Chameides 2010
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Water is withdrawn but is generally replaced or recharged when rainwater from the surface percolates downward.
Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone? Bill Chameides 2010
skipvia commented on the word rainwater
Besides being a beautiful (if somewhat redundant) word, it seems that it underscores additional support for chained_bear's assertions that intelligent people need to reproduce in ever-increasing numbers. From Planetsave:
"Notch up another one for the members of the Idiots Anonymous who have apparently been camping out in Bellingham, Washington. Apparently, rainwater doesn’t actually belong to individuals, but to the state as a whole. Therefore, all the wonderful efforts of communities to collect water are actually illegal.
Not just frowned upon, or morally unethical, or shifty – all of which water collection is not – but actually illegal, so much so that in the future such legalities could be used in a court of law.
It comes down once again to the simple fact that humanity is doomed to an ever continuing cycle of idiot and misanthropic events and situations that will, eventually, simply wear down those of us with half a brain, and leave planet Earth populated by half-wits and mimes (often the same thing)."
July 24, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word rainwater
Who's with me?!
July 24, 2008
bestiary commented on the word rainwater
seems anti-pregnancy measures employed by intellectuals (who realize they don't want or shouldn't have children at the moment) tending to be birth control pills and condoms rather than wishful thinking is somehow working against us! (well, the world.)
July 24, 2008
skipvia commented on the word rainwater
But for a vasectomy some years ago, I'd be all over it!
July 24, 2008
bestiary commented on the word rainwater
oh yes. and those!
i'd really like to be able to put my uterus in a jar somewhere and pop it back in when i actually need it.
July 24, 2008
skipvia commented on the word rainwater
From the male perspective, it would be nice to have little tiny spigots that you could turn on or off as needed. Although I'm not sure where you'd put them.
July 24, 2008
bestiary commented on the word rainwater
i'm not sure you'd want to call them spigots: "pardon; i have to turn off my spigots.."
July 24, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word rainwater
*loves this page for its spectacular misplacement of conversational topic*
July 24, 2008
dontcry commented on the word rainwater
I'm not sure that you'd want to call them "little tiny"...
July 24, 2008
yarb commented on the word rainwater
It would only be the spigots that were tiny, dontcry. The size of a man's spigots would bear no relation to that of his spunk tanks.
July 24, 2008
dontcry commented on the word rainwater
Uh, huh. If I had a nickle for every time I heard THAT one...
July 24, 2008
skipvia commented on the word rainwater
Spunk tanks is the funniest euphemism I have heard in ages. Thanks, yarb.
July 24, 2008
bestiary commented on the word rainwater
or, incidentally, his spank bank.
and what do you mean, chained_bear? rainwater ⇒ uterus ⇒ spigot is perfectly logical.
July 24, 2008
bilby commented on the word rainwater
There are some days when you arrive at a Wordie thread some time after it's started and ...
July 24, 2008
skipvia commented on the word rainwater
Wordievolution set in right out of the gate on this one, didn't it?
July 24, 2008
reesetee commented on the word rainwater
This page never had a chance.
July 29, 2008
trivet commented on the word rainwater
ps - weirdnet.
July 29, 2008
reesetee commented on the word rainwater
Well, thank heavens it's fresh water. We wouldn't want stale water falling as precipitation from clouds. *eye roll*
July 30, 2008
darqueau commented on the word rainwater
I noticed the same thing reesetee, and thought it was quite curious.
July 30, 2008
darqueau commented on the word rainwater
I like the idea of stale, State-owned water falling from the sky.
July 30, 2008
dontcry commented on the word rainwater
The state can have the stale water. I'm keeping the fresh (shh..)
July 30, 2008