单词 | downpour |
释义 | downpourn. A heavy, continuous fall of rain. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > downpour floodc1275 spate1513 spout1554 gourder1565 squata1640 downpouring1669 deluge1720 pash1722 plout1740 on-ding1776 pelt1785 soaker1789 pelter1791 teem1793 pour1794 oncome1808 downpour1811 plash1820 slashing1829 plungec1841 dispunging1876 steeper1878 splurge1879 soak1891 drencher1892 toad-strangler1938 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [noun] > dropping or falling vertically > copious downfall from above raineOE showerOE hail1600 downpour1872 1811 J. MacDonald Gen. View Agric. Hebrides 741 A down-pour which had persevered in deluging the island for a week. 1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 141 The downpour is desultory and uncertain, causing frequent droughts and famine. 1872 R. A. Proctor Ess. Astron. xi. 151 A systematic and continuous downpour of missiles. 1903 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 7 Mar. 11/3 A day of drenching downpour—an unrelenting plunge of rain, which began in the gray of morning and lasted till the gray of sunset. 1962 New Scientist 16 Aug. 347/1 Unless the spread-out produce is heaped up and quickly covered before each downpour..it will inevitably deteriorate. 2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 Aug. i. 22/2 ‘Nothing stops the rodeo,’ said Betsy Harris..as cowgirls slogged through barrel races in a fierce downpour. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). downpourv. 1. a. intransitive. Chiefly poetic. To pour down. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > cascade down downpoura1522 shower1595 cascade1702 waterfall1957 the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > copiously wallc893 bolkena1300 railc1390 gush?a1400 hella1400 walterc1400 yraylle1426 downpoura1522 pour1538 bolk1541 flush1548 sluice1593 teem1753 flux1823 swill1884 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) v. xii. l. 53 A huge weyt gan down powre and tumbill. ?1613 T. Campion Two Bks. Ayres ii. xviii. sig. M2 Sooner may you count the starres And number hayle downe pouring. 1853 T. N. Talfourd Castilian v. i. 167 That flash Came..to show in jagged fire The plumes down-pouring from the mountain brow. 1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 141 Mingled with songs of Nereids that leap where the curled crests down-pour. 1921 R. W. Service Ballads of Bohemian iv. i. 174 The crimson strands of her hair downpoured Over her breasts of woe. 2011 P. Lacy Reclaiming Lily xv. 200 Joy's shoulders convulsed. Tears downpoured. b. intransitive. North American. With non-referential it as subject, in it is downpouring, it downpours, etc.: it is raining heavily; there is a downpour. ΚΠ 1956 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gaz. 14 May 1/3 In Cedar Rapids, it showered, it downpoured, it hailed and it thundered. 1988 Associated Press (Nexis) 11 July ‘When it started downpouring, I was smiling. I was whistling,’ said John Nink, 29, who measured a half inch of rain. 2017 Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle 12 Feb. c1 It downpoured for most of the afternoon. 2. transitive. Chiefly poetic. To cause (something) to pour down. ΚΠ 1599 R. Linche Fountaine Anc. Fiction sig. E Autumne (dy'de with iuice of grapes) downepoures A world of new-made wine of purest red. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xi. 175 The ill-disposed heauens..Their angry plagues downe-pour'd, insatiate in their waste. 1689 H. Killigrew tr. Martial Sel. Epigrams xii. 196 What get I, when my Toes break out a Door Thro' my torn Shoo, and Clouds fierce Show'rs down pour, And not a Servant have, dry Clothes to bring. 1781 W. Hawkins Poems on Var. Subj. 74 Dire Hail, down-pour'd in clutt'ring cataracts. 1874 M. Davies Anti-sillyass 96 Canon Liddon, 'neath the dome, His flood of words downpoured. 1892 G. Ferguson Our Earth I. ii. 57 Is't a judgment from Almighty Heaven, Downpoured on guilty Man in holy wrath? 1989 M. H. Kingston Tripmaster Monkey (1990) ix. 305 Wittman could have torched the curtains and the dry flowers; he could have downpoured the oil lamps onto the chairs and fruit crates. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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