Precipitation vs Cloudburst - What's the difference?
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(meteorology) Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.
A hurried headlong fall.
(countable, chemistry) A reaction that leads to the formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid; the precipitate so formed at the bottom of the container.
(figuratively) Unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.
A sudden heavy rainstorm.
* 1899 , , "A Cup of Cold Water" in The Greater Inclination :
* 1908 , , The Riverman , ch. 38:
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Precipitation is a related term of cloudburst.
As nouns the difference between precipitation and cloudburst
is that precipitation is precipitation, unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste while cloudburst is a sudden heavy rainstorm.precipitation
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- had acted with some precipitation and had probably started out upon a wild-goose chase --
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* precipitatelySee also
(wikipedia ) * haste * rashnesscloudburst
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(wikipedia cloudburst)Alternative forms
* cloud-burstNoun
(en noun)- [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.
- A cloudburst in the China Creek district followed by continued heavy rains was responsible for the increased water.
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.
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.