Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A drop of rain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A drop of rain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A drop of rain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A single
droplet ofrainwater that has just fallen or is falling from thesky .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a drop of rain
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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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
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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
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The amount of force exerted by a raindrop is a function of the terminal velocity and mass of the raindrop.
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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
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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
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We have heavy rain today and I was looking for a photo of what raindrops really look like (it isn't a "raindrop" shape) check out this movie
tingilinde: 2009
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We have heavy rain today and I was looking for a photo of what raindrops really look like (it isn't a "raindrop" shape) check out this movie
the shape of rain 2009
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The "raindrop" effects and audacious harmonic progressions reminisce to Chopin and Brahms and look ahead to Ravel and Frank Martin.
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Most raindrops are round or doughnut shaped, not "raindrop" shaped.
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