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The rains

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Definition

rain /ren/ n ၁။ [U, sing] မိုး။ heavy/torrential/driving rain ❍ We've had a lot of rain this month. ❍ Don't go out in the rain. ❍ It's pouring with rain (ie It is raining very hard). ❍ It looks like rain (ie as if it is going to rain). ❍ A light rain began to fall. See also ACID RAIN, RAINY ၂။ the rains [pl] မိုးရာသီ။ The rains come in September. ၃။ [sing] ~ of sth …ရြာျခင္း။ … မိုးရြာျခင္း။ a rain of arrows/ bullets. v ၁။ မိုးရြာသည္။ It's still raining (ie Rain is still falling). ❍ It rained hard all day. Has it stopped raining? ၂။ (က) ~ on sb/ sth က်သည္။ ရြာသည္။ Fragments of glass rained on them from above. (ခ) ~ sth on sb/ sth က်လာေစသည္။ ရြာခ်သည္။ သြန္းသည္။ The volcano erupted, raining hot ashes on the villages below. ၃။ (လက္သီး၊ အနမ္း စသည္) မိုးရြာခ်လိုက္သည္။ He attacked the man, raining blows to his head and shoulders. ❏ be rained off; ( US ) be rained out [ PHRV ] မိုးဖ်က္ သည္။ The match was rained off twice. ❏ come rain, come shine; (come) rain or shine [ IDM ] မိုးရြာရြာ၊ ေနပူပူ။ ဘာျဖစ္ျဖစ္။ Every morning, rain or shine, he goes out jogging. ❏ it never rains but it pours [ IDM ] ( saying ) ကံဆိုးမ သြားရာ မိုးလိုက္လို႔ရြာ ဆိုသလိုပါပဲ။ First my car broke down, then I lost my key—it never rains but it pours! ❏ rain cats and dogs [ IDM ] (used esp in the continuous tenses) ( infml ) သဲသဲမဲမဲရြာသည္။ ❏ rain check n ( esp US ) မိုးေၾကာင့္ပြဲပ်က္သည့္အခါ ျပန္လည္က်င္းပမည့္ပြဲအတြက္ ထုတ္ေပးေသာ လက္မွတ္။ ❏ rain down (sth) [ PHRV ] တသြင္သြင္စီးဆင္းသည္။ တေဝါေဝါက်လာသည္။ Tears rained down her cheeks. ❍ Loose rocks rained down ( the hillside ). ❏ rain down (on sb/ sth) [ PHRV ] သြန္ဆင္းလာသည္။ Fire-bombs rained down on the military convoy. ❍ Abuse rained down on the noisy students from the open windows. ❏ rain forest n မိုးသစ္ေတာ။ the Amazon rain forest. ❏ take a rain check (on sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) (ဖိတ္ၾကား ခ်က္ကို ျငင္းေသာအားျဖင့္) ဒီတစ္ခါ အဆင္မေျပေသးလို႔ ေနာက္ထပ္ခ်ိန္းၾကေသးတာေပါ့။ Thanks for the invitation, but I'll have to take a rain check on it.

Examples

  1. Drops of rain ran down the window pane.
  2. Outside the rain continued to fall steadily.
  3. [heavy/torrential/pouring rain] : Heavy rain has been forecast for Scotland and Northern Ireland.
  4. [light rain] : Visibility was good
  5. with only occasional light rain.
  6. [in the rain] : People were queuing for buses in the rain.
  7. The monsoon rains