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词汇 rainwater
释义 rainwater
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈreɪnˌwɔː.tər/ us /ˈreɪnˌwɑː.t̬ɚ/
water that has fallen as rain, rather than water that has come from a tap: 雨水
I collect rainwater to water my plants.我存雨水来浇花。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Water in general
aquatically
aqueous
bathwater
bathymetric
bathymetrically
bathymetry
brackish
briny
distilled water
grey water
hydrosphere
hydrospheric
hypersaline
hypersalinity
non-turbulent
overwater
salt water
soft water
storm surge
wet

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Precipitation: rain

rainwater | American Dictionary


rainwater
noun[ U ]
us/ˈreɪnˌwɔ·t̬ər, -ˌwɑt̬·ər/
water that has fallen as rain

Examples of rainwater


rainwater
A more open canopy will result in more rainwater falling straight through and therefore will not be enriched by contact with plant surfaces.
The cycle starts with minor creeks or gullies, which are formed to drain the excess rainwater on a widespread interfluve area.
The small cemented courtyard was sunk into the ground as a basin to avoid rainwater penetrating the inner chamber.
The oak galls are collected, crushed and either boiled or infused in rainwater (or white-wine vinegar).
The importance of rainwater to the nutrient budgets of some plant communities is discussed later.
These are all properties that are most likely to reduce the variability in output in seasons with both rainwater deficiency and excessive precipitation.
We lost the battle over rainwater recycling but won it over healthy breathing walls and recycled insulation.
The subplot bund height was 40 cm whereas the main bund height was 50 cm so that rainwater did not overflow to adjacent plots.
Rainwater drained from the hut roofs into tanks was sometimes tainted with salt and fragments of seaweed after gales.
Intermittent seepage of sewage into the rainwater system through a breach in the separating wall might also have contributed to the contamination.
Portions of the underground sewage system and rainwater channels ran parallel but counter-current to each other.
Thereafter, rainwater was allowed to fill the ponds, although water was removed when necessary to maintain the original level.
The area becomes temporarily inundated after heavy rains, indicating that the bedrock impedes the vertical flow of rainwater into the ground.
Effective technical and management strategies adapted to specific locations, addressing conjunctive management of surface water, groundwater and rainwater, as well as urban, and agriculture-ecosystem interfaces.
Rainwater may be permitted to penetrate the joints and run down the reverse, hidden face of the cladding assembly.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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