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# rainbow

«rainbow» in Mova's school dictionary: **a curved band of colours that appears in the sky when…** — 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 (a rainbow, rainbows); adjective use (rainbow colours)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A rainbow is a curved band of colours that appears in the sky when sunlight shines through raindrops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/#m1)

2) Anything with many bright colours in bands can be called rainbow, like a rainbow scarf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science a rainbow shows that white light is made of colours split by water drops (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet); you see one with the sun behind you and rain in front. In stories it is a sign of hope after a storm. Phrases: «a double rainbow», «the colours of the rainbow», «at the end of the rainbow».

### examples

- After the rain we saw a rainbow over the hills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/#x1)
- There are seven colours in a rainbow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/#x2)
- A prism can make a rainbow on the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/#x3)
- We saw a double rainbow from the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/#x4)
- She wore a rainbow T-shirt to school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/#x5)
- You can make a small rainbow with a garden hose on a sunny day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/#x6)
- Red is always on the outside of a rainbow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/#x7)
- The water drops mounted to the clouds and glittered in the rainbow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/#x8)

### note

Countable: a rainbow, two rainbows. One word. Myth: there is no pot of gold at the end of a rainbow — you can never reach its end, because it moves as you move. The seven colours: ROYGBIV.

### In the corpora

- [The rainbow colours of hot springs in Yellowstone come from different bacteria living at different temperatures, some in water near boiling.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad/14/)
- [Universal indicator mixes several dyes, so each pH gets its own colour, a whole rainbow from red to purple.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow/6/)
- [A rainbow appears when raindrops bend sunlight and split it into its colours; you see one only with the Sun behind you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/15/)
- [Colour helps only if you colour the tricky bit, not the whole word in a rainbow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/10/)
- ["Crossed the rainbow bridge" means the pet died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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