Rainfall vs Drench - What's the difference?
rainfall | drench | Related terms |
(meteorology) the amount of rain that falls on a single occasion
A draught administered to an animal.
(obsolete) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
* Dryden
* Shakespeare
To soak, to make very wet.
* Dryden
To cause to drink; especially, to dose (e.g. a horse) with medicine by force.
(obsolete, UK) A military vassal, mentioned in the Domesday Book.
Rainfall is a related term of drench.
As nouns the difference between rainfall and drench
is that rainfall is (meteorology) the amount of rain that falls on a single occasion while drench is a draught administered to an animal or drench can be (obsolete|uk) a military vassal, mentioned in the domesday book.As a verb drench is
to soak, to make very wet.rainfall
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Noun
Derived terms
* effective rainfall * excess rainfall * excessive rainfall * initial rainfall * inversion of rainfall * orographic rainfall * point rainfall * rainfall component * rainfall distribution * rainfall duration * rainfall effectiveness * rainfall excess * rainfall frequency * rainfall intensity * rainfall intensity area curve * rainfall intensity-duration curve * rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curve * rainfall intensity frequency * rainfall intensity pattern * rainfall intensity return period * rainfall inversion * rainfall loss * rainfall rate * rainfall regime * rainfall station * rate-of-rainfall gauge * residual rainfall *drench
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Etymology 1
(etyl) drenchen, from (etyl) . More at drink.Noun
(es)- A drench of wine.
- Give my roan horse a drench .
Verb
- Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain; / Their moisture has already drenched the plain.
Etymology 2
Anglo-Saxon dreng warrior, soldier, akin to Icelandic drengr.Noun
(es)- (Burrill)
