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rainmakers

/reyn-mey-ker/US // ˈreɪnˌmeɪ kər //UK // (ˈreɪnˌmeɪkə) //

造雨者,雨人,造雨人,造雨者们

Related Words

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a medicine man who by various rituals and incantations seeks to cause rain.
    • : a person who induces rainfall by using various scientific techniques, as the seeding of clouds with silver iodide crystals from an airplane.
    • : Slang. an executive or lawyer with exceptional ability to attract clients, use political connections, increase profits, etc.: The president has several rainmakers among his advisers.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms
battery电池,蓄电池,蓄电池组cannon大炮,火炮,加农炮,炮ordnance军械,军火,弹药,炮弹arms武器,军火,兵器,手臂bazooka火箭筒,火箭炮,巴祖卡,火箭弹force力量,力,权力,力度gunnery炮术,炮法,炮兵,枪法munitions弹药,药品,炮弹,纺织品stovepipe炉管,炉灶,炉灶管,炉子weapons武器big guns大炮,大枪,大型枪械,大型枪支cannonry炮兵,炮兵部队,炮兵队,炮兵营heavy stuff沉重的东西,厚重的东西,重物,沉重的材料

Examples

  • The City Council did not greet the rainmaker as a liberator.

  • The Rainmaker, John Grisham April 1, 1995  The Rainmaker, John Grisham's sixth novel, took the summer of 1995 by storm.

  • I see rainmaker putting bad stuff into their sides with a little knife.

  • Has any utmost precision of barometer been able to drive the priest out of his prerogatives as rainmaker?

  • The last of the correspondents left on the evening of the day that Judge Thayer set the rainmaker to work.

  • But the wind was against the rainmaker; nature conspired to mock him before men as the quack that he was.

  • The town knew all about the rainmaker at work behind the shielding rows of tall corn in Judge Thayer's garden.

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