raindrop
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- noun
- /ˈreɪnˌdrɒp/
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gota de lluvia
- Strangely, just at that moment, raindrops began to roll down the windowpanes.
- raindrops fall
- impact of raindrops
Oh, that was the biggest raindrop I've ever seen, I swear.
- Oh, that was the biggest raindrop I've ever seen, I swear.
- So I'm, I'm thinking if moons make moon bows, then raindrops should be making sun bows.
- If it's rainy, you better dodge some motherfucking raindrops and then if you walk between them, right?
- We don't send the Starlight through a raindrop that then gets spawns around and splits up the light into the rainbow colours.
- Like it's just little raindrops that eventually become the flood.
- A raindrop, you know, is that a couple of raindrops just tapped me on the shoulder.
Examples
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On the porch overhang outside, raindrops were falling one by one.
Fiction book (1995) -
Those raindrops are falling on my head...
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- Did you feel that raindrop?
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Each raindrop makes a sound the first time it falls on a surface.
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"Below, in careful block letters, my son has written, 'When a raindrop falls to earth, it must hurt.'
Fiction book (1996) -
When a raindrop hits a pond, the ripples that come off of the raindrop are the shape of water.
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But I learned a valuable lesson, which is that raindrops can be quite loud on the hard metal surface of a patio cover.
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"Not going?" Another clap of thunder came as the first large raindrops splattered down.
Fiction book (1993) -
Halfway to Paramount, a fat raindrop plops like a rotten berry on the windshield.
Academic text (2007) -
Did you feel that raindrop as it landed on your face?
Synonyms
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A small round piece of water that hangs on leaves after rain
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Raindrop comes from the simple parts rain ('water from the sky') and drop ('a small bit of liquid'), so it literally means one small piece of rain falling from the sky.