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Another word for rainbow

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Noun

  1. A fantastic, impracticable plan or desire

      1. A fantastic notion or vain hope.
      1. An erroneous perception of reality:
      2. An erroneous concept or belief:
      3. The condition of being deceived by a false perception or belief:
      1. The creative imagination; unrestrained fancy.
      2. Something, such as an invention, that is a creation of the fancy.
      3. A capricious or fantastic idea; a conceit.
      1. A series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.
      2. A daydream; a reverie.
      3. A state of abstraction; a trance:
      1. An organism, organ, or part consisting of two or more tissues of different genetic composition, produced as a result of organ transplant, grafting, or genetic engineering.
      2. A substance, such as an antibody, created from the proteins or genes of two different species.
      3. An individual who has received a transplant of genetically and immunologically different tissue.
      1. an imaginary scheme not likely to be realized; daydream
      1. A thin, usually spherical or hemispherical film of liquid filled with air or gas:
      2. A globular body of air or gas formed within a liquid:
      3. A pocket formed in a solid by air or gas that is trapped, as during cooling or hardening.
    See also:

    real

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Another word for rainbow

Noun
      1. The perception of the different wavelengths of light. It is possible to create almost all visible colors using two systems of primary colors. Transmitted colors use red, green and blue (RGB), and reflected colors use cyan (light blue), magenta (purplish-red), yellow and black (CMYK). Color displays use RGB (colors are added to create white) and color printing uses CMYK (colors are subtracted to create white).
      1. A solid figure whose bases or ends have the same size and shape and are parallel to one another, and each of whose sides is a parallelogram.
      2. A transparent body of this form, often of glass and usually with triangular ends, used for separating white light passed through it into a spectrum or for reflecting beams of light.
      3. A cut-glass object, such as a pendant of a chandelier.
      1. The pigmented, round, contractile membrane of the eye, suspended between the cornea and lens and perforated by the pupil. It regulates the amount of light entering the eye.
      2. Any of numerous widely cultivated plants of the genus Iris, having narrow sword-shaped leaves and showy, variously colored flowers.
      3. A rainbow or rainbowlike display of colors.
    See also:

    spectrum

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Sentence Examples

  • It looked like a Rainbow Trout.

  • The formation of the rainbow in the heavens after or during a shower must have attracted the attention of man in remote antiquity.

  • She turned and raised an eyebrow at him, her rainbow eyes flashing with every color between white and black.

  • Galileo's views, although erroneous, since he held comets to be mere atmospheric emanations reflecting sunlight after the evanescent fashion of a halo or a rainbow, were expressed with such triumphant vigour, and embellished with such telling sarcasms, that his opponent did not venture upon a reply.

  • It was a lake of rainbow light, in which, for a short while, I lived like a dolphin.

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