rainbow

Definizione monolingua

rainbow

rainbow (third-person singular simple present rainbows, present participle rainbowing, simple past and past participle rainbowed)

1. (transitive) To pattern with many colours, like a rainbow.

rainbow (plural rainbows)

1. A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.
2. Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.
3. (often used with “of”) A wide assortment; a varied multitude.

   a rainbow of possibilities

4. An illusion, mirage

   Many electoral promises are rainbows, vanishing soon after poll day.

5. (baseball) A curveball, particularly a slow one
6. (poker slang) In Texas hold em or Omaha hold em, a flop that contains three different suits

rainbow (not comparable)

1. Multicoloured.
2. (attributive, chiefly US) Made up of several races or ethnicities, or (more broadly) of several cultural or ideological factions.
   • 2006, Anthony Summers, Robbyn Swan, Sinatra: The Life, page 246:

     He went along with them because the Pack was a rainbow group — two Italian-Americans, a black man, a Jew (Bishop), and a sometime Englishman (Lawford) — and they were making a point.

   • 2007, Melissa Haussman, Birgit Sauer, Gendering the state in the age of globalization, page 67:

     The 1999 June elections led to a surprise change in the governing coalition from the long-term ruling Christian Democrats to a rainbow group of Greens, Liberals, and Socialists.

   • 2007, Hooson, in a Letter to the Western Mail, 19 June 2007, published in Crossing the Rubicon: coalition politics Welsh style by John Osmond, page 28:

     [...] it seemed to me to be naive indeed for the Liberal Democrats to believe that they could simply enter into a rainbow alliance against the Labour Government.

   • 2008, Bidyut Chakrabarty, Indian politics and society since independence, page 76:

     Mayawati has succeeded in building a social coalition that inverts the pyramid of caste/class hierarchy by building a rainbow alliance of social groups, now dominated by that greatest underclass of all, namely Dalits.

3. (attributive) LGBT.
   • 2005, Alan McKee, The public sphere: an introduction, page 167:

     Similarly, the question of who belongs in such a rainbow alliance isnt set. It can include gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender individuals. It can include people who are questioning which culture they belong to [...]

4. (poker, chiefly of a flop) Composed entirely of different suits.

Definizione dizionario rainbow

	arcobaleno
	multicoloured arch in the sky
	A multicoloured arc in the sky caused by the refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.

	iride
	multicoloured arch in the sky
	A multicoloured arc in the sky caused by the refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.

Altri significati:

iridescent

(transitive) To pattern with many colours, like a rainbow.

multicoloured

Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.

(baseball) A curveball, particularly a slow one

(poker slang) In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits

(US) Mellow, laid back, peaceful.

assortment, varied multitude

(attributive) LGBT.

(poker, chiefly of a flop) Composed entirely of different suits.

(US) Non-racist.

(Should we delete <sup>(+)</sup> this redundant sense?) Having, or shining with, the colors of the rainbow: iridescent.

Multicoloured.

A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.

An illusion, mirage

prismatic reflection

(often used with “of”) A wide assortment; a varied multitude.

(US) Racially or ethnically blended.