rainbow
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
baseball
card-games
climbing
computing
cryptography
engineering
games
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
poker
sciences
soccer
sports
Etymology: From Middle English reynbowe, raynbowe, from Old English reġnboga (“rainbow”), from Proto-West Germanic *regnabogō, from Proto-Germanic *regnabugô (“rainbow”), equivalent to rain + bow (“arch”). Cognate with West Frisian reinbôge (“rainbow”), Dutch regenboog (“rainbow”), German Regenbogen (“rainbow”), Danish regnbue (“rainbow”), Swedish regnbåge (“rainbow”), Icelandic regnbogi (“rainbow”).
Compound parts: rain
bow
Inflected forms:
form: rainbows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rainbows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rainbowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rainbowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rainbowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.
pos: noun
examples: Why are there so many songs about rainbows
And what's on the other side?
Rainbows are visions, but only illusions
And rainbows have nothing to hide.
gloss: Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.
pos: noun
gloss: A wide assortment; a varied multitude.
pos: noun
tags: often
examples: a rainbow of possibilities
gloss: An illusion; a mirage.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Many electoral promises are rainbows, vanishing soon after poll day.
gloss: A curveball, particularly a slow one.
pos: noun
gloss: A trick in which the player makes the ball arc over the opponent's head using both feet; rainbow kick
pos: noun
gloss: In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Rainbow trout.
pos: noun
examples: Finally, by actual trial, I have found that I can catch more rainbow by using one fly than with a two or three-fly cast.
gloss: A person within the LGBT community.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
figuratively
sometimes
examples: Oh look, the rainbow came back.
gloss: Multicolored, especially if in rainbow order.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Made up of several races or ethnicities, or (more broadly) of several cultural or ideological factions.
pos: adj
tags: US
attributive
not-comparable
examples: That Asian-American actor Thomas Ikeda contributes a pleasingly frantic Panthino would not be considered rainbow enough.
He went along with them because the Pack was a rainbow group — two Italian-Americans, a black man, a Jew (Bishop), and a sometime Englishman (Lawford) — and they were making a point.
The 1999 June elections led to a surprise change in the governing coalition from the long-term ruling Christian Democrats to a rainbow group of Greens, Liberals, and Socialists.
[…] it seemed to me to be naive indeed for the Liberal Democrats to believe that they could simply enter into a rainbow alliance against the Labour Government.
Mayawati has succeeded in building a social coalition that inverts the pyramid of caste/class hierarchy by building a rainbow alliance of social groups, now dominated by that greatest underclass of all, namely Dalits.
gloss: LGBT.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
derogatory
not-comparable
sometimes
examples: Similarly, the question of who belongs in such a rainbow alliance isn't set. It can include gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender individuals. It can include people who are 'questioning' which culture they belong to [...]
Why do they have to add rainbow propaganda into everything?
gloss: Composed entirely of different suits.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to rainbow tables.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: rainbow attack
gloss: To brighten with, or as with, a rainbow; to pattern with the colours of the rainbow.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To take the appearance of a rainbow.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We saw birds and butterflies rainbowing in the sun; lazy lizards crawling in the heat; inguanas blinking on stone wall, with mouth wide open for flies; poisonous snakes, not only carved on walls, but gliding through the grass.
gloss: In climbing gyms where the rocks to climb are colored to indicate suggested climbing routes, to climb rocks of different colors, thereby ignoring such routes.
pos: verb
examples: “She's going to learn to belay while I'm climbing? What if I fall?” “You're not going to fall while rainbowing a 5.8, and besides, she'll catch you.” “I could die.” “That would be tragic,” I said. Kaitlyn crossed her arms.
called “rainbowing.” Different routes were color coordinated. ... Using hand-me-down equipment and learning as much as she could, Brittany began climbing outdoors. She found like-minded people and joined organizations such as Brown ...
Synonyms: multihued
polychromatic
Related words: 🌈
Derived words: brainbow
chase a rainbow
chase rainbows
double rainbow
Drainbow
end of the rainbow
fire rainbow
foambow
fogbow
frostbow
icebow
Kamloops rainbow trout
mistbow
over the rainbow
rainbow ant
rainbow baby
rainbow boa
rainbow body
rainbow bomb
rainbow box
rainbow bridge
Rainbow Bridge
rainbow cactus
rainbow capitalism
rainbow carrots
rainbow ceiling
rainbow chard
rainbow coalition
rainbow coleslaw
rainbow-collar
rainbow-colored
rainbow-coloured
rainbow darter
rainbowed
rainbow era
rainbow eucalyptus
rainbow family
rainbowfish
rainbow fish
rainbow flag
Rainbow Flat
rainbow glass
rainbow herbicide
rainbowish
rainbowism
rainbow kiss
rainbowlike
rainbow lorikeet
rainbow mafia
rainbow mantis shrimp
rainbow obsidian
rainbow party
rainbow perch
rainbow plant
rainbow quartz
Rainbow Reach
rainbow roll
rainbow runner
rainbow salad
rainbows and unicorns
rainbow seaperch
rainbow shark
rainbow sharkminnow
rainbow shot
rainbow shower
rainbow slaw
rainbow slug
rainbow snake
rainbow surfperch
rainbow table
rainbow trout
rainbow unicorns
rainbow washing
rainbow weed
rainbow wood
rainbow wrasse
rainbowy
skinbow
snowbow
somewhere over the rainbow
supernumerary rainbow
white rainbow
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: ylbertë
lang: Bulgarian
word: с цветовете на дъгата
roman: s cvetovete na dǎgata
lang: Burmese
word: ရောင်စုံ
roman: raungcum
lang: Dutch
word: bont
lang: Dutch
word: meerkleurig
lang: Dutch
word: veelkleurig
lang: Esperanto
word: multkolora
lang: Finnish
word: monivärinen
lang: Georgian
word: ჭრელი
roman: č̣reli
lang: German
word: bunt
lang: German
word: vielfarbig
lang: Japanese
word: 多彩
roman: tasai
lang: Japanese
word: 多色
roman: tashoku
lang: Kashmiri
word: رَنٛگ با رَنٛگیٖن
lang: Polish
word: tęczowy
lang: Portuguese
word: multicor
lang: Portuguese
word: multicolor
lang: Romanian
word: multicolor
lang: Romanian
word: policrom
lang: Spanish
word: multicolor
lang: Spanish
word: policromático
lang: Spanish
word: irisado
lang: Zazaki
word: belek