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单词 to rain out
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to rain out
to rain out
1. transitive (reflexive). to rain itself out: to stop raining (after a prolonged spell).
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > rain falls [verb (intransitive)] > rain heavily > and stop
to rain itself out1883
1883 J. A. Symonds Ital. Byways 40 It rained itself out at night, and the morning was clear.
1924 C. Mackenzie Old Men of Sea ii. 17 The sky had rained itself out.
1935 Times 28 Nov. 17/5 There is a reasonable chance that the weather will have rained itself out by morning.
1996 A. Bond Time was, she Declares 41 It could wind down. Rain itself out again.
2. transitive (in passive).
a. Chiefly U.S. = to rain off at Phrasal verbs.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > make revocation [verb (intransitive)] > become null > because of rain
to rain out1896
to rain off1916
1896 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 14 Oct. 8/4 Cockrell will go to Carrollton again next Wednesday night, as he was rained out last Wednesday night and did not get to speak.
1928 Chicago Tribune 18 June 27/7 (heading) Sox, Boston series final is rained out.
1937 Sun (Baltimore) 18 May 17/8 Today's [baseball] game was rained out.
1969 ‘E. Lathen’ When in Greece ix. 98 Unfortunately the planes are rained out, but the train should get her here before midnight.
1974 Union (S. Carolina) Daily Times 19 Apr. 6/1 In the American League..Minnesota clipped California 3–2 and Baltimore's game at Detroit was rained out.
2004 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 13 Oct. b2/1 St Elizabeth Technical..whose game against Newell in Santa Cruz was rained out.
b. Of a crop, etc.: to be ruined by excessive rain.
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1944 T. D. Clark Pills, Petticoats & Plows 88 Behind him at home was a cotton crop which had been rained out.
3.
a. intransitive. To fall from the atmosphere in or as rain.
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1931 U.S. Patent 1,795,161 4/1 At this point, and below this point, the surplus of humidity falls or rains out.
1979 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 153/1 The 3H generated was largely injected into the upper atmosphere, from which it ‘rained out’ into the oceanic-hydrologic system.
1999 New Scientist 16 Oct. 15/2 Most of the energy that powers the planet's weather systems is released into the atmosphere when water vapour condenses and rains out.
b. transitive (in passive). Of a substance: to be removed, esp. from the atmosphere, by or as by rain.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > rain falls [verb (intransitive)] > be removed from air by rain
to rain out1939
1939 U.S. Patent 2,162,379 2/1 It is preferred to collect the liquid rained out of the foam separately from the liquid of chamber 13.
1975 Nature 13 Nov. 134/2 It makes nonsense of the assumption..that practically everything that can..be rained out as air ascends into the stratosphere, actually is rained out and thus removed.
2007 Icarus 186 392/1 Any methane that evaporates quickly condenses in updrafts and gets rained out, leading to small atmospheric methane abundance.
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