"Rain" was also the name of the first Beatles song to contain musical elements played backward. It was the b-side to "paperback writer".
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rain
The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea.
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ASCII Art Representation: ############ # #################### # # # # ### # ### # # # # # ### # ### # # # ## # # # Character Etymology: Drawn as rain (as show by the four dots) falling from a cloud (|-|) under the heavens (the first and topmost horizontal stroke). Some scholars feel that the middle "|" stroke represents the concept of falling. A listing of all on-yomi and kun-yomi readings: on-yomi: U kun-yomi: ame ama- -same Nanori Readings: Nanori: (none) English Definitions: U, ame: rain, rainfall. ama-: rain Unicode Encoded Version: 雨 Unicode Encoded Compound Examples: 雨乞い (amagoi): praying for rain. 雨水 (amamizu, usui): rainwater. 雨季 (uki): the rainy season. 雨傘 (amagasa): umbrella. 雨雲 (amagumo): rain cloud 雨滴 (uteki): raindrop
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Drawn as rain (as show by the four dots) falling from a cloud (|-|) under the heavens (the first and topmost horizontal stroke). Some scholars feel that the middle "|" stroke represents the concept of falling.
on-yomi: U kun-yomi: ame ama- -same
Nanori: (none)
U, ame: rain, rainfall. ama-: rain
雨
雨乞い (amagoi): praying for rain. 雨水 (amamizu, usui): rainwater. 雨季 (uki): the rainy season. 雨傘 (amagasa): umbrella. 雨雲 (amagumo): rain cloud 雨滴 (uteki): raindrop
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Over most of Europe, South America, eastern North America, and central Africa, the annual rainfall exceeds 500 mm (20 inches), while over most of Asia, excluding India, Tibet, and China, the annual rainfall is less than 500 mm, being less than 250 mm in a long tongue extending from Arabia across to northeast Mongolia. The central regions of Australia, most of northern and a part of southwest Africa, portions of the intermontane area of the United States, and portions of the west-central coast and southern east coast of South America also have less than 250 mm of rain in the year. Portions of the western coast of Africa, between the Equator and 10° N, a strip of the western coast of India, parts of Assam, a coastal strip of Myanmar (Burma), windward mountain slopes in the temperate latitudes of North and South America, and many isolated tropical stations average more than 2,500 mm of rain in the year. Rainfall intensities greater than 30 mm in five minutes, 150 mm in one hour, or 500 mm per day are quite rare, but these intensities on occasion have been more than doubled for the respective durations.
Source: CIA Annual World Factbook Just statistics, no copyrights, don't worry.
- January 1916
Shifting Shallow rain falls among myriad rooftops Liquid prisms cutting the sun
Light falls from my window Reflection upon the wooden floor Like ethereal magma Through the room it flows
Everchanging patterns Coupled with silent drumbeats amid the thunderlion's roar Bring to mind a mirror's double sight As the fluid rays soften hard wood into Something else While pecking drops fall against the blurry glass That bravely stand the long siege of rain
Clouds caress the sun Iridescent rays falling to their gentle touch My kaleidoscope fades And the rain goes on.
ENJOY
The sight of colours becoming increasingly intense and vibrant , in their damp state. The world being cleaned as dirt and residue are rinsed away. The world becomes clean again. Look.
The fresh scent after the dust has been rinsed from the air. With no interferences you can smell anything, and everything; grass, trees, the earth beneath your feet. The world becomes fresh again. Breath.
The sound of rain as it starts out softly, working it's way to a crescendo, a different sound being emitted from each new surface. Let thunder excite you, get into the rain orchestra, let it deep inside your soul. Listen.
The rainbow after the storm, with all it's colour, remember searching for the pot of gold at the end. Be a kid and just do it, jump in a puddle, you're never too old to puddle jump.
The fact that everyone else around you had a miserable day while you felt great. You let yourself enjoy what is normally not considered to be enjoyable. You took in beautiful sites, fresh scents, good music and maybe even some good clean fun. It was a great day because you appreciated rain
Rain (?), n. & v.
Reign.
Spenser.
© Webster 1913.
Rain (?), n. [OF. rein, AS. regen; akin to OFries. rein, D. & G. regen, OS. & OHG. regan, Icel., Dan., & Sw. regn, Goth. rign, and prob. to L. rigare to water, to wet; cf. Gr. to wet, to rain.]
Water falling in drops from the clouds; the descent of water from the clouds in drops.
Rain is water by the heat of the sun divided into very small parts ascending in the air, till, encountering the cold, it be condensed into clouds, and descends in drops. Ray.
Fair days have oft contracted wind and rain. Milton.
Rain is distinguished from mist by the size of the drops, which are distinctly visible. When water falls in very small drops or particles, it is called mist; and fog is composed of particles so fine as to be not only individually indistinguishable, but to float or be suspended in the air. See Fog, and Mist.
Rain band Meteorol., a dark band in the yellow portion of the solar spectrum near the sodium line, caused by the presence of watery vapor in the atmosphere, and hence sometimes used in weather predictions. -- Rain bird Zool., the yaffle, or green woodpecker. [Prov. Eng.] The name is also applied to various other birds, as to Saurothera vetula of the West Indies. -- Rain fowl Zool., the channel-bill cuckoo (Scythrops Novae-Hollandiae) of Australia. -- Rain gauge, an instrument of various forms measuring the quantity of rain that falls at any given place in a given time; a pluviometer; an ombrometer. -- Rain goose Zool., the red-throated diver, or loon. [Prov. Eng.] -- Rain prints Geol., markings on the surfaces of stratified rocks, presenting an appearance similar to those made by rain on mud and sand, and believed to have been so produced. -- Rain quail. Zool. See Quail, n., 1. -- Rain water, water that has fallen from the clouds in rain.
Rain, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rained (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Raining.] [AS. regnian, akin to G. regnen, Goth. rignjan. See Rain, n.]
1.
To fall in drops from the clouds, as water; used mostly with it for a nominative; as, it rains.
The rain it raineth every day. Shak.
2.
To fall or drop like water from the clouds; as, tears rained from their eyes.
Rain (?), v. t.
To pour or shower down from above, like rain from the clouds.
Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you. Ex. xvi. 4.
To bestow in a profuse or abundant manner; as, to rain favors upon a person.
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