rain

«rain» in Mova's school dictionary: water that falls from clouds in drops — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (rain); verb (rain, rains, rained, raining)

meaning for a pupil

1) Rain is water that falls from clouds in drops. tree →

2) When it rains, water falls from the sky and the ground gets wet. tree →

3) A rain of something is a lot of it falling: a rain of arrows. tree →

4) «Rain check» (USA) means doing something another time. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths: weather in the story; amounts of rain in inches or millimeters, days with rain; added, compared or averaged. In science: the water cycle (evaporation, clouds, rain), rain gauges, floods and droughts. In everyday life: raincoats, umbrellas, rained-off games. In stories: «it never rains but it pours», «right as rain» (well again).

examples

• It rained 3 inches on Monday and 2 inches on Tuesday. tree →
• It rained on 9 days in April. tree →
• The game was stopped by rain after 40 minutes. tree →
• How much rain fell in the week? tree →
• Rain falls when water drops in clouds get too heavy. tree →
• Take your umbrella, it's going to rain. tree →
• We measured the rain with a jar in the garden. tree →
• Plants need rain to grow. tree →
• After a good sleep she felt right as rain. tree →
• The rain was falling in torrents. tree →

note

Amounts of rain on different days are usually added or compared. Trap: «it rained for 3 days» counts days, «3 inches of rain» is an amount. «Rain» the noun is uncountable: «a lot of rain», not «rains» (except «the rains», a rainy season). Homophones: reign (a king's rule) and rein (strap for a horse). Safety: stay away from flooded roads and rivers after heavy rain.

In the corpora

• Sunglasses in the rain may be for sensitive eyes.
• You followed the lessons' events in words, so you know what people said about rain, not how rain feels on skin.
• 3D pavement art uses perspective tricks so a chalk drawing looks deep from one spot; chalk washes away in the rain.
• Donkey coats are not waterproof like horses' coats, so donkeys need shelter from the rain.
• After rare rains the outback can burst into flowers, and some frogs dig into the ground and wait years for the next rain.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «rain» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.