Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Acid precipitation falling as rain.
Wiktionary
- n. Rain which is unusually acidic (pH of less than the natural range of 5 to 6); caused mainly by atmospheric pollution with sulphur dioxide and nitrogen compounds.
WordNet 3.0
- n. rain containing acids that form in the atmosphere when industrial gas emissions (especially sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides) combine with water
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Hot! Hot! Hot! Sauce
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ENVI - Collocations ABC
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
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is it rain, sprinkles, showers, sleet, or drizzle?
Are those drops, droplets?
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Rain
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The Environment
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hernesheir The name of a hot pepper sauce. Sep 22, 2009