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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rain/#m1)

2) When it rains, water falls from the sky and the ground gets wet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rain/#m2)

3) A rain of something is a lot of it falling: a rain of arrows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rain/#m3)

4) «Rain check» (USA) means doing something another time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rain/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rain/#x1)
- It rained on 9 days in April. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rain/#x2)
- The game was stopped by rain after 40 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rain/#x3)
- How much rain fell in the week? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rain/#x4)
- Rain falls when water drops in clouds get too heavy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rain/#x5)
- Take your umbrella, it's going to rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rain/#x6)
- We measured the rain with a jar in the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rain/#x7)
- Plants need rain to grow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rain/#x8)
- After a good sleep she felt right as rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rain/#x9)
- The rain was falling in torrents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rain/#x10)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/6/)
- [You followed the lessons' events in words, so you know what people said about rain, not how rain feels on skin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/27-who-you-are-words-not-body/10/)
- [3D pavement art uses perspective tricks so a chalk drawing looks deep from one spot; chalk washes away in the rain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism/15/)
- [Donkey coats are not waterproof like horses' coats, so donkeys need shelter from the rain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules/7/)
- [After rare rains the outback can burst into flowers, and some frogs dig into the ground and wait years for the next rain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rain» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rain/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.