Rainbow
['reɪnbəʊ] or ['renbo]
Definition
(noun.) an illusory hope; 'chasing rainbows'.
(noun.) an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain.
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Definition
(n.) A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Iris.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a rainbow in a dream, is prognostic of unusual happenings. Affairs will assume a more promising countenance, and crops will give promise of a plentiful yield. For lovers to see the rainbow, is an omen of much happiness from their union. To see the rainbow hanging low over green trees, signifies unconditional success in any undertaking.
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Examples
- On sped my rainbow, fast as light; I flew as in a dream; For glorious rose upon my sight That child of Shower and Gleam. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Newton in the next century, with the prism, decomposed light, and in a darkened chamber reproduced all the colours and tints of the rainbow. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Rainbow colors recombined to form white light. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- White light is not a simple light, but is composed of all the colors which appear in the rainbow. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- And one could cut a pretty enough scarf out of a rainbow. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Thus we see, from two simple experiments, that all the colors of the rainbow may be obtained from white light, and that these colors may be in turn recombined to produce white light. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- And when we come to speak of beauty, this sea is no more to be compared to Tahoe than a meridian of longitude is to a rainbow. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The street called Straight is straighter than a corkscrew, but not as straight as a rainbow. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Oh, father, see how red is the rainbow! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- A deep gulf, she observed, had opened between Dora and me, and Love could only span it with its rainbow. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Several of the white ones were barred like zebras with rainbow stripes of blue and red and yellow paint. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- White light is a mixture of lights of rainbow colors. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- On the contrary, this fact seemed at first to set off the dead husband in his young wife's eyes, and to be the necessary cloud to the rainbow. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But his pursuit of fortune in England proved but the search for the rainbow’s pot of gold. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- She had turned (if Penelope was to be believed) all the colours of the rainbow. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- We shall remember, always, how we saw majestic Gibraltar glorified with the rich coloring of a Spanish sunset and swimming in a sea of rainbows. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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