Word Finder - rainbow

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A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.

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Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.

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(often used with “of”) A wide assortment; a varied multitude.

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a rainbow of possibilities

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An illusion, mirage.

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Many electoral promises are rainbows, vanishing soon after poll day.

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A curveball, particularly a slow one.

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In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.

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Rainbow trout.

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To brighten with, or as with, a rainbow; to pattern with the colours of the rainbow.

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To take the appearance of a rainbow.

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Multicolored.

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Made up of several races or ethnicities, or (more broadly) of several cultural or ideological factions.

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LGBT.

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(chiefly of a flop) Composed entirely of different suits.

It looked like a Rainbow Trout.

Tears made the rainbow double.

It was a lake of rainbow light, in which, for a short while, I lived like a dolphin.

Galileo's views, although erroneous, since he held comets to be mere atmospheric emanations reflecting sunlight after the evanescent fashion of a halo or a rainbow, were expressed with such triumphant vigour, and embellished with such telling sarcasms, that his opponent did not venture upon a reply.

He pointed to a blossoming rainbow.

The formation of the rainbow in the heavens after or during a shower must have attracted the attention of man in remote antiquity.

She saw a rainbow & had a feeling of peace.

A white desk crammed in a corner was covered with teen magazines, and a box of beads had spilled and scattered a rainbow across the carpet.

Jesus in the painted window of Mansfeld church, stern of face, sword in hand, sitting on a rainbow, coming to judge; an altarpiece at Magdeburg, in which a ship with its crew was sailing on to heaven, carrying no layman on board; the deeds of St Elizabeth emblazoned on the window of St George's parish church at Eisenach; the living pictures of a young nobleman who had turned monk to save his soul, of a monk, the holiest man Luther had ever known, who was aged far beyond his years by his maceration; and many others of the same kind.

Dean felt ill at ease in Cynthia Byrne's bedroom, spying on her world, seeing the small rainbow of dresses hanging in her closet, sharing space with suits and shirts looking as if they were awaiting the return of Jeffrey Byrne.

She turned and raised an eyebrow at him, her rainbow eyes flashing with every color between white and black.

Valentine, which was published in the same year, indicated that it was but the first chapter in a life of endless adventures, and that the imagination which turned the crude facts into poetry, and the fancy which played about them like a rainbow, were inexhaustible.

Generally only one bow is clearly seen; this is known as the primary rainbow; it has an angular radius of about 410, and exhibits a fine display of the colours of the spectrum, being red on the outside and violet on the inside.

Available only in the fabulous rainbow stripe pictured here.

Remember that there is more than one way to draw a tree, a rainbow, or a happy face!

As an instance of his method, Bacon gives an investigation into the nature and cause of the rainbow, which is really a very fine specimen of inductive research.

The association of Yahweh with storm and fire is frequent in the Old Testament; the thunder is the voice of Yahweh, the lightning his arrows, the rainbow his bow.

The sky was replaced with glorious streaks of sunlight and an arched double rainbow.

Since the value of µ for water is about, it follows that n must be at least unity for a rainbow to be formed; there is obviously no theoretical limit to the value of n, and hence rainbows of higher orders are possible.

Phil Gates returned to again dazzle with his shimmering pop brilliance, exemplified in " Rainbow Days " .

The lake, one of the most beautiful of the so-called "finger lakes" of central New York, abounds in lake and rainbow trout, black bass, pickerel and pike, and there are many summer cottages along its shores.

It is often referred to as "The Rainbow Nation," due to its newly-developed multicultural diversity.

If you feel particularly extroverted, Brother Bimbo has a wonderful design for an outfit best described as Swiss Guard meets Rainbow Flag.

As compensation for the mixed weather of the day there's a bright rainbow in the late afternoon.

You can find rainbow moonstone for sale at GemSelect.

Then a rainbow had come out, and he'd stared at it until his master beat him.

Judy Garland once told us that if we followed the yellow brick road we could fly with the pretty little bluebirds beyond the rainbow.

The No campaign would be a rainbow coalition, to which the Green Party would add green and would co-operate wholeheartedly.

The restaurant offers an extensive lunch-time and evening menu with sirloin steak, roast duckling and rainbow trout to name just a few.

Well, it may be appropriate the publisher chose a rainbow of mostly grays to incase the effort.

The fishing is for brown and some rainbow trout using up-stream dry fly and nymph.

Where the Rainbow Six series goes from here is anybody's guess.

We also had a visit from top children's book illustrator Georgie Ripper - she illustrates the Rainbow Fairies books.

This rainbow lorikeet is feasting on Ficus obliqua fruits.

They look opalescent, and are full of rainbow colors.

The Keats who spoke of unweaving the rainbow was a young man.

Neither must we forget to add rainbow trout to the equation.

They are stocked with brown trout rainbow trout, and blue trout, (a hybrid of rainbow trout ).

Chelsea Bell with the 8lb rainbow trout she caught on her first fishing trip.

Our lumber purchasers visit the sawmills several times a year to select the highest quality lumber for your Rainbow Play System.

By the time the guitar solo comes in, you've reached the rainbow.

On the trout lake Mark Johnson landed fifteen fish the best a rainbow a very respectable 10lb 8oz using cats whisker.

A vinyl floor has become badly worn in Rainbow room.

Again there was plenty of life with spider crabs, rainbow wrasse and shoals of larger fish above.

In accordance with a general consequence of reflection and refraction, it is readily seen that the light of the rainbow is partially polarized, a fact first observed in 1811 by Jean Baptiste Biot (see Polarization).

The explanation of the colours of the rainbow, which are also due to dispersion, was given by Newton, although it was known previously to be due to refraction in the drops of rain (see Rainbow).

Van Vloten's volume, published in 1862, Ad Benedicti de Spinoza opera quae supersunt omnia supplementum, is uniform with Bruder's edition, and contains the early treatise De deo et homine, the Treatise on the Rainbow, and several fresh letters.

In addition to the great Homeric gods, the poet knows a whole " Olympian consistory " of deities, nymphs, nereids, sea-gods and goddesses, river-gods, Iris the rainbow goddess, Sleep, Demeter who lay with a mortal, Aphrodite the goddess of love, wife of Hephaestus and leman of Ares, and so forth.

If you constantly marvel at stunning shots taken of rainbow colored fish darting around exquisite coral reefs, you might have wondered what equipment is used for underwater photography.

However, the Stylus 790 SW also comes with a sleek design in a rainbow of colors, which means you don't have to sacrifice style for durability.