Rainbow vs Gold - What's the difference?
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A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.
Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.
A wide assortment; a varied multitude.
(label) An illusion, mirage.
(baseball) A curveball, particularly a slow one.
(poker slang) In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.
Multicoloured.
(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:
* 2007 , Melissa Haussman, Birgit Sauer, Gendering the state in the age of globalization , page 67:
* 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:
* 2008 , Bidyut Chakrabarty, Indian politics and society since independence , page 76:
(attributive) LGBT.
* 2005 , Alan McKee, The public sphere: an introduction , page 167:
(poker, chiefly, of a flop) Composed]] entirely of different [[suit#Noun, suits.
(uncountable) A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.
(countable) A coin made of this material, or supposedly so.
(countable) A bright yellow colour, resembling the metal gold.
(countable) The bullseye of an archery target.
(countable) A gold medal.
(figuratively) Anything or anyone considered to be very valuable.
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* 2012 , Victor Pemberton, Leo's Girl
Made of gold.
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Having the colour of gold.
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To pyrolyze or burn food until the color begins to change to a light brown, but not as dark as browning
(programming, of software) In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.
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of or referring to a gold version of something
As nouns the difference between rainbow and gold
is that rainbow is a member of the (rainbow guides), a girl guide movement for younger girls while gold is forest.rainbow
English
(wikipedia rainbow)Noun
(en noun)- ''a rainbow of possibilities
- ''Many electoral promises are rainbows , vanishing soon after poll day.
Quotations
* 1911 , Francis R. Steel, Catching the Rainbow Trout'', in ''The Outing Magazine , volume 58, page 482: *: Finally, by actual trial, I have found that I can catch more rainbow by using one fly than with a two or three-fly cast. * 1994 , John Simon, Of Dogs, Their Masters, and Others'', in ''New York magazine, September 5 1994, page 51: *: That Asian-American actor Thomas Ikeda contributes a pleasingly frantic Panthino would not be considered rainbow enough.Synonyms
* (prismatic reflection) spectrumDerived terms
* chase rainbows * end of the rainbow * lunar rainbow * marine rainbow * rainbow coalition * rainbow fish * rainbow perch * rainbow runner * rainbow trout * rainbow wrasse * somewhere over the rainbow * supernumerary rainbowAdjective
(-)- 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.
- 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.
- [...] 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.
- 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.
- Similarly, the question of who belongs in such a rainbow alliance isn't set. It can include gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender individuals. It can include people who are 'questioning' which culture they belong to [...]
Usage notes
In the United States, 'rainbow' groups/families/alliances/coalitions were originally those made up of several races or ethnicities. The term is now used more broadly, to refer (in the 2007 quotation, for example) to an alliance of several political parties.References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
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Alternative forms
* gould (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at yellow.Noun
- France has won three golds and five silvers.
- Now obviously this meant that I went over my allotted time, but the theatre management didn't mind because I was giving them comedy gold and that's what gets bums on seats.
- Marge Quincey didn't deserve a husband like his dad. He was pure gold , and she wasn't worth a light beside him.
Synonyms
* when used as a food colouringDerived terms
* all that glisters is not gold, all that glitters is not gold * argental gold * * cloth of gold * colloidal gold * colored gold, coloured gold * dead gold * dentist gold * ducat gold * eka-gold * Etruscan gold * fairy gold * filled gold * fool's gold * go for the gold * go gold * gold album * gold-amalgam * gold-balls * gold-bank * gold basket * gold-beater, goldbeater * gold-beating * gold bee * gold beetle * gold beryl * gold blocking * gold-bob * gold bond * gold-book * gold braid * gold-breasted trumpeter * gold brick, gold-brick, goldbrick * gold-bricker * gold-bricking * gold bug * gold bullion * gold bullion standard * gold-capped weaver bird * gold-carp * gold certificate * gold-chain * gold chalcogenide * gold chloride * gold clause * gold cloth * gold-color, gold-colour * gold-copper ore * goldcrest * gold-crested wren * gold-cups * gold currency * gold-dig * gold-digger * gold-digging * gold disc, gold disk * gold-dredge, gold-dredger * gold-dredging * gold-driver * gold-drop * gold-dropper * gold dust * gold-dusty * golden * gold exchange * gold farmer * gold farming * gold-fever * gold-field, goldfield * goldfielder * gold-filled * gold-film, gold-film glass * goldfinch * gold-finder * goldfinny * goldfish * Gold Fixing * gold flat * gold-flower * gold-flux * gold foil, gold-foil * gold-fringe * gold halide * gold-hammer * gold-head * gold-heart * gold-hunger * gold hydrazide * goldilocks, * goldish * goldite * gold-knap, gold-knop, gold-knops * gold-laced * gold leaf, gold-leaf * goldless * gold-like * gold-lily * gold-lip * gold medal * gold medalist/gold medallist * gold-mill * gold mine, gold-mine * gold-mining * gold-mohr, gold-mohur * * gold-mouthed * gold-note * gold of Bruges * gold of Genoa * gold of pleasure * gold of Venice * gold-pan * gold pentafluoride * gold plate, gold-plate * gold-plated * gold-plating * gold point * gold-powder * gold-purple * gold-quartz * gold-rain * gold record * gold reserve * gold robin * gold rush, gold-rush * gold salt * gold-sand * gold-shell * gold-shrub * goldsinny * gold-size * gold-skin * goldsmith * goldsmithery * gold-solder * gold sovereign * gold-spangle * goldspink * gold-spot * gold standard * gold stick, gold-stick * gold-stone, goldstone * gold swift * gold-tail, gold-tail moth * gold telluride * gold therapy * gold-thirst * gold-thread, goldthread * gold-tipped * gold tooth * gold top * gold trichloride * gold value * gold-washed * gold-washer * gold window * gold-work, gold-works * goldy * * green gold * heart of gold * jeweler's gold, jeweller's gold * (Kolar Gold Fields) * leprous gold * make a gold * Mannheim gold * mock gold * mosaic gold * old gold * potable gold * red gold * rhodium-gold * rolled gold * rose gold * shell gold * spangle gold * strike gold * telluric gold * telluride of gold and silver * white goldAdjective
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