Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
raining en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈɹeɪnɪŋ/
Meanings
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A fall of rain.
It was raining heavily.
This is a way of saying that the subatomic structure of the verb “to rain” explicitly marks rainings as a kind of change that places undergo.
2013, Maite Ezcurdia, Robert J. Stainton, The Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary in Philosophy, page 363:
Forms
raining en · VERB
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈɹeɪnɪŋ/
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of rain