英语词汇“rain ball”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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rain ball

rain ball n. originally English regional (Lancashire) a rounded mass of cloud (spec. in quot. 1942), esp. when considered as an indicator of rain; usually in plural.

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1888 R. Abercromby Weather iii. 78 In Lancashire, the festoons [of cloud] are called ‘rainballs’, and are only considered a sign of rain.

1942 W. H. Wenstrom Weather & Ocean of Air viii. 182 One special cloud form worth mentioning is mammato-cumulus or ‘rain balls,’ whose cumulus heads bulge downward instead of upward from a high cloud deck.

1966 C. Olson Maximus Poems (1983) III. 569 These rain-balls Which could as well fall back into rain, play, In the air.

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单词	rain ball
释义	> as lemmas rain ball rain ball n. originally English regional (Lancashire) a rounded mass of cloud (spec. in quot. 1942), esp. when considered as an indicator of rain; usually in plural. ΚΠ 1888 R. Abercromby Weather iii. 78 In Lancashire, the festoons [of cloud] are called ‘rainballs’, and are only considered a sign of rain. 1942 W. H. Wenstrom Weather & Ocean of Air viii. 182 One special cloud form worth mentioning is mammato-cumulus or ‘rain balls,’ whose cumulus heads bulge downward instead of upward from a high cloud deck. 1966 C. Olson Maximus Poems (1983) III. 569 These rain-balls Which could as well fall back into rain, play, In the air. extracted from rainn.¹ < as lemmas
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