rainbow
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.
Đồng nghĩa: iris
- 2.
Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.
- 3.
(often)(often used with “of”) A wide assortment; a varied multitude.
a rainbow of possibilities
- 4.
(figuratively)(figurative) An illusion; a mirage.
Many electoral promises are rainbows, vanishing soon after poll day.
- 5.
(baseball) A curveball, particularly a slow one.
- 6.
(soccer) A trick in which the player makes the ball arc over the opponent's head using both feet; rainbow kick
- 7.
(slang)(poker slang) In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.
- 8.
Rainbow trout.
- 9.
(derogatory, figuratively, sometimes)(figuratively, sometimes derogatory) A person within the LGBT community.
Oh look, the rainbow came back.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(not comparable)Multicolored, especially if in rainbow order.
- 2.
(US, attributive, not comparable)(attributive, chiefly US) Made up of several races or ethnicities, or (more broadly) of several cultural or ideological factions.
That Asian-American actor Thomas Ikeda contributes a pleasingly frantic Panthino would not be considered rainbow enough.
[…] 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.
- 3.
(attributive, derogatory, not comparable, sometimes)(attributive, sometimes derogatory) LGBT.
- 4.
(not comparable)(poker, chiefly of a flop) Composed entirely of different suits.
- 5.
(not comparable)(mathematics, cryptography) Of or pertaining to rainbow tables.
rainbow attack
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To brighten with, or as with, a rainbow; to pattern with the colours of the rainbow.
- 2.
(intransitive)To take the appearance of a rainbow.
- 3.
(climbing) 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.
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ine-pro From Middle English reynbowe, raynbowe, from Old English reġnboga (rainbow), from *regnabogō, from Proto-Germanic *regnabugô (rainbow), equivalent to rain + bow. Cognate with reinbôge, regenboog, Regenbogen, regnbue, regnbåge, regnbogi.