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raindrop

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raindrop [′rān‚dräp]
(meteorology)
A drop of water of diameter greater than 0.5 millimeter falling through the atmosphere.
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Miss Carpenter looked up, and immediately received a heavy raindrop in her eye.
An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context
Bright flashes of lightning lit up every raindrop, and with them came cracks of thunder that went away rumbling and bumping as though Saint Swithin were busy rolling great casks of water across rough ground overhead.
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Occasionally a breath of Nature, a raindrop of pathos and tenderness, or a gleam of humor, will find its way into the midst of his fantastic imagery, and make us feel as if, after all, we were yet within the limits of our native earth.
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