different between cloudburst vs shower

English

Alternative forms

• cloud-burst

Etymology

cloud +? burst

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kla?d?b?st/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kla?d?b??st/
• Hyphenation: cloud?burst

Noun

cloudburst (plural cloudbursts)

1. A sudden heavy rainstorm.
   • 1899, Edith Wharton, "A Cup of Cold Water" in The Greater Inclination:

     [B]ut the sound . . . expressed an utter abandonment to grief; not the cloud-burst of some passing emotion, but the slow down-pour of a whole heaven of sorrow.

   • 1936 Aug. 17, "Miscellany," Time (retrieved 20 May 2014):

     In Uniontown, Pa., John Walchesky & family rushed from their house when lightning set it afire, rushed in again when a cloudburst put out the blaze.

   • 2007 Feb. 25, Norman Howard, "Devotion, chapter 1" (book excerpt), New York Times (retrieved 20 May 2014):

     [H]e walked across the lawn, wet from a fleeting late-afternoon cloudburst, the first rain in a month.

Synonyms

• cloudbust

Translations

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English shour, from Old English sc?r, from Proto-West Germanic *sk?ru, from Proto-Germanic *sk?r?, probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)??wer- (“north; north wind; cold wind; rain shower”). Cognate with Dutch schoer, German Schauer, Norwegian skur.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: shou'?r, IPA^(key): /??a?.?(?)/
• (US) enPR: shou'?r, IPA^(key): /??a?.?/
• Rhymes: -a?.?(?), -a??(?)

Noun

shower (plural showers)

1. A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade).
2. A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.

   Synonym: shower bath

3. An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.

   (UK, Australia)

   (especially US)

   Synonym: shower bath

4. A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.

5. A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
   1. A bridal shower.

   2. A baby shower.

6. (obsolete) A battle, an attack; conflict.
7. (chiefly Ireland, Britain, Australia, derogatory) A shower of shit.
   • 1956, Private's Progress (motion picture):

     You all behaved like a shower, now you are to be treated like a shower

8. (chiefly Ireland, euphemistic, derogatory, with of and an invective) Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier
   • 1991, Allen Feldman, Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland, page 208 (University of Chicago Press; ?ISBN, 9780226240718)

     It was one of the worst feelings in the H-Block, one of the worst experiences to sit and listen to somebody getting beat. Because you were totally powerless, and you would always get somebody shouting at the door, “You shower of bastards!” It was always a crowd of screws and one or two naked men in a cell. They had total control.

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (shaw?)

Translations

Verb

shower (third-person singular simple present showers, present participle showering, simple past and past participle showered)

1. (followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid).
2. To bathe using a shower.
3. To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance
   • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:

     The individual in the army becomes used to holding human life in contempt, in fact the greater the slaughter, the greater is his merit; and the more medals, ribbons, and honors of hero-worship are showered on him, the more he becomes, after a time, indifferent to all sorts of human suffering and loss of human life.

4. (intransitive) To rain in a shower; to cascade down.

Synonyms

• (bathe using a shower): have a shower (British), take a shower (especially US)

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From show +? -er.

Alternative forms

• show-er (nonstandard)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????.?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??o?.?/

Noun

shower (plural showers)

2. One who shows.
   • 2006, Bruce Christianson, ?Bruno Crispo, ?James A. Malcolm, Security Protocols: 12th International Workshop (page 18)

     When you show a credential there's a protocol whereby the showee has assurance that the shower possesses a credential of the particular type without actually seeing the bit string.

   • 2018, Elisabeth Reber, ?Cornelia Gerhardt, Embodied Activities in Face-to-Face and Mediated Settings (page 153)

     Once the showee looks at the object, the shower removes his or her gaze from the showee and gazes back at the object (see below and Fig. 5.2).

4. An object or activity that is shown in a contest.

5. (slang) A man whose penis is close to its full (erect) size when flaccid. [from 1990s]

   Antonym: grower

Translations

Further reading

• shower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Shower (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Howser, Whoser, howers, reshow, showre, whores

Swedish

Noun

shower

1. indefinite plural of show