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rainbow
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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2009
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rain·bow
/ ˈrānˌbō/
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n.
an arch of colors formed in the sky in certain circumstances, caused by the refraction and dispersion of the sun's light by rain or other water droplets in the atmosphere.
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any display of the colors of the spectrum produced by dispersion of light.
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a wide range or variety of related and typically colorful things:
a rainbow of medals decorated his chest.
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many-colored:
a big rainbow packet of felt pens.
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short for rainbow trout.
PHRASES:
at the end of the rainbow
used to refer to something much sought after but impossible to attain.
chase rainbows
(or a rainbow)
pursue an illusory goal.
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Rainbows and promises
Newspaper article from: Norridge News (IL); 11/27/2008; 622 words
; ...an unexpected rainbow could brighten...little. The rainbows turned up in...varied as the rainbows created this summer. Rainbow Hospice, continuing...this year's rainbows, and have some...spare to assist Rainbow Hospice in any...
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Rainbow Technologies Launches Homeland Security Initiative; New Website Details High-Assurance Homeland Security Solutions for Government and Business Customers.
PR Newswire; 2/18/2003; 700+ words
; Rainbow Technologies, Inc. , a leading provider of digital content...prnh/20020701/RAINLOGO ) Users can access the site via Rainbow's homepage at http://www.rainbow.com/ or click on http://www.rainbow.com/homelandsecurity...
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Rainbows of hope
Newspaper article from: Des Plaines Times (IL); 5/8/2003; 700+ words
; ...churches. Gradually, Rainbows spread throughout the...organization was named Rainbows because so many of the...if they were seeing a rainbow after a bad storm...and it was like a rainbow," Marta said. "It...children who named it." Rainbows has two curricula...
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Chasing Rainbows.(The Home Forum)(Kid Space)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 7/27/1999; 700+ words
; ...your back is to the sun. See a rainbow? You can also see rainbows in the fine spray from a garden...your own And not only do we see a rainbow, everyone sees his own, personal rainbow. "Rainbows are like your shadow," says Lee...
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RAINBOWS SEEM TO LINK HEAVEN AND EARTH.(DAILY BREAK)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 7/10/2004; 700+ words
; ...passenger seat beside me. "It's a rainbow!" We were driving through the Ghent...one?" I did indeed. A perfect double rainbow! It was spectacular. It was breath taking...the sight of a colored bow in the sky. Rainbow mythology is found in every culture...
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RAINBOW PROGRAMMING HEATS UP THE WATERS FOR INTERNET SURFERS
PR Newswire; 2/22/1996; 700+ words
; ...N.Y., Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Rainbow Programming Holdings, Inc. today extended...announcement of interconnected sites for Rainbow and each of its eight networks on the...the Internet's interactive medium. Rainbow's unprecedented launch of eight web...
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Rainbow Technologies creates eSecurity division; Shawn Abbott named President of new division that combines Rainbow iVEA and Digital Rights Management Group.
M2 Presswire; 7/30/2001; 700+ words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-30 July 2001-RAINBOW TECHNOLOGIES: Rainbow Technologies creates eSecurity division; Shawn Abbott named President of new division that combines Rainbow iVEA and Digital Rights Management Group (C)1994-2001...
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Rainbow Media Names Hank Ratner Vice Chairman.
Business Wire; 6/5/2002; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2002 Rainbow Media Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:RMG...will continue to report to Josh Sapan, Rainbow's president and CEO, who announced...months, against a backdrop of change at Rainbow and in the industry. Mr. Ratner, 43...
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Rainbow Technologies to Present at AeA Classic Financial, November 5, 2003.
PR Newswire; 11/3/2003; 700+ words
; Rainbow Technologies, Inc. , a leading provider...president and CEO, and Patrick Fevery, CFO, Rainbow Technologies, Inc., will present with...November 5 at 9:00 a.m. PST. The Rainbow and SafeNet executives will provide information...
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Rainbow Sports Networks Names Daniel Ronayne Senior Vice President, Marketing And Communications.
Business Wire; 6/10/2002; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 2002 Rainbow Sports Networks, a division of Cablevision's Rainbow Media Holdings, Inc., today announced...and communications. Ronayne, a 15-year Rainbow veteran, was previously vice president...
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Rainbow
Book article from: World of Earth Science
Rainbow Water droplets...basis of all rainbows, which are circular...once, a single rainbow occurs. If the...reflect twice, two rainbows will appear...colors of the rainbow depends on the...create bright rainbows with well-defined...
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Rainbows
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...once, a single rainbow occurs. If the...reflect twice, two rainbows will appear: a...The reflected rainbow may be considered a combination of two rainbows produced by sunlight...However, the rainbow is a whole continuum...Supernumerary rainbows, faintly colored...
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rainbow
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...paler, secondary rainbow with colors reversed...inside a drop. The "rainbows" of mist, lawn...caused. The lunary rainbow, seen much less...the foot of the rainbow. Bibliography: See R. Greenler, Rainbows, Halos, and Glories...
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Rainbow Coalition
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
RAINBOW COALITION RAINBOW COALITION. The Rainbow Coalition was a group developed within the Democratic Party during the 1984 presidential election. Led by the African American civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, it attracted blacks, Latinos...
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Rainbow Plans
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
Rainbow Plans, US war plans drawn up for five...earlier ones which had coloured codenames. Rainbow 5 was the closest to the situation in which...be called, was then developed into the Rainbow 5 Plan by Rear-Admiral Kelly Turner...
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