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1: line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a railway system [syn: {railway}, {railroad}, {railroad line}, {railway line}]

1: an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines [syn: {yard}]

1: an employee of a railroad [syn: {trainman}, {railroader}, {railroad man}, {railway man}]

1: especially fine or decorative clothing [syn: {array}, {regalia}] v : provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child" [syn: {dress}, {clothe}, {enclothe}, {garb}, {...

1: possessing no clothing [syn: {clothesless}, {garmentless}]

1: water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere [syn: {rainfall}] 2: drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds [syn: {rainwater}] 3: anything happening rapidly or in...

1: a barrel used as a cistern to hold rainwater

1: rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!" [syn: {pour}, {pelt}, {stream}, {rain cats and dogs}]

1: rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!" [syn: {pour}, {pelt}, {stream}, {rain buckets}]

1: a promise that an unaccepted offer will be renewed in the future 2: a ticket stub entitling the holder to admission to a future event if the scheduled event was cancelled due to rain

1: a dark gray cloud bearing rain [syn: {nimbus}, {nimbus cloud}]

1: a ritual dance intended to bring rain

1: an alternative date set for some outdoor event in case it rains on the appointed date; "the rain date for the picnic will be the following Sunday"

1: precipitate as rain; "If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding" [syn: {rain}]

1: a forest with heavy annual rainfall [syn: {rainforest}]

1: gauge consisting of an instrument to measure the quantity of precipitation [syn: {rain gauge}, {pluviometer}, {udometer}]

1: gauge consisting of an instrument to measure the quantity of precipitation [syn: {rain gage}, {pluviometer}, {udometer}]

1: prevent or interrupt due to rain; "The storm had washed out the game" [syn: {wash out}]

1: an area that has little precipitation because some barrier causes the winds to lose their moisture before reaching it

1: a brief period of precipitation; "the game was interrupted by a brief shower" [syn: {shower}]

1: a percussion instrument that is made from a dried cactus branch that is hollowed out and filled with small pebbles and capped at both ends; makes the sound of falling rain when tilted; origin was i...

1: large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle [syn: {saman}, {monkeypod}, {monkey pod},...

1: an epithet for Jupiter [syn: {Jupiter Pluvius}]

1: a chief of the Sioux; he was with Sitting Bull and others at the battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when General Custer's troops were massacred (1835-1905)

1: the washing away of soil or other loose material by rain

1: an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain 2: an illusory hope; "chasing rainbows"

1: a stout cylindrical cactus of the southwest United States and adjacent Mexico

1: small freshwater fish of South America and the West Indies; often kept in aquariums [syn: {guppy}, {Lebistes reticulatus}]

1: a kind of lorikeet [syn: {Trichoglossus moluccanus}]

1: Pacific coast fish [syn: {rainbow seaperch}, {Hipsurus caryi}]

1: Chinese pink with deeply toothed rose-lilac flowers with a purplish eye; usually raised as an annual [syn: {china pink}, {Dianthus chinensis}]

1: streamlined cigar-shaped jack; good game fish [syn: {Elagatis bipinnulata}]

1: Pacific coast fish [syn: {rainbow perch}, {Hipsurus caryi}]

1: deciduous ornamental hybrid of southeastern Asia and Hawaii having racemes of flowers ranging in color from cream to orange and red [syn: {Cassia javonica}]

1: common smelt of eastern North America and Alaska [syn: {American smelt}] 2: important marine and landlocked food fish of eastern North America and Alaska [syn: {Osmerus mordax}]

1: flesh of pacific trout that migrate from salt to fresh water 2: found in Pacific coastal waters and streams from lower California to Alaska [syn: {Salmo gairdneri}]

1: a water-resistant coat [syn: {waterproof}]

1: a drop of rain

1: German poet (born in Austria) whose imagery and mystic lyricism influenced 20-th century German literature (1875-1926) [syn: {Rilke}]

1: water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere [syn: {rain}]

1: flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent [syn: {tent-fly}, {fly sheet}, {fly}, {tent flap}]

1: a forest with heavy annual rainfall [syn: {rain forest}]

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1: falling in drops or as if falling like rain; "watched the raining apple blossoms"

1: lacking rain; "a rainless month"; "rainless skies"

1: executive who is very successful in bringing in business to his company or firm 2: American indian medicine man who attempt to make it rain

1: activity intended to produce rain

1: not permitting the passage of water [syn: {waterproof}, {waterproofed}]

1: a storm with rain

1: drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds [syn: {rain}]

1: (of weather) wet by periods of rain; "showery weather"; "rainy days" [syn: {showery}] 2: marked by rain; "their vacation turned out to be a series of rainy days" [syn: {pluvial}, {pluvious}] [also:...

1: a (future) time of financial need; "I am saving for a rainy day"

1: one of the two seasons in tropical climates [ant: {dry season}]

1: capable of being raised; "the roadster had a raisable sunroof" [syn: {raiseable}]

1: the amount a salary is increased; "he got a 3% raise"; "he got a wage hike" [syn: {rise}, {wage hike}, {hike}, {wage increase}, {salary increase}] 2: an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the c...

1: object strongly; make a stink

1: get very angry; "He will raise the roof when he hears this"

1: change the arrangement or position of [syn: {agitate}, {vex}, {disturb}, {commove}, {shake up}, {stir up}]

1: capable of being raised; "the roadster had a raisable sunroof" [syn: {raisable}]