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Rains vs Raining - What's the difference?

rains | raining |

As nouns the difference between rains and raining

is that rains is while raining is a fall of rain.

As verbs the difference between rains and raining

is that rains is (rain) while raining is .

rains

English

Noun

(head)
  • English plurals
  • A rainy season.
    • The rains came early this year .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rain)

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    raining

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fall of rain.
  • * 2013 , Maite Ezcurdia, ?Robert J. Stainton, The Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary in Philosophy (page 363)
    • This is a way of saying that the subatomic structure of the verb “to rain” explicitly marks rainings as a kind of change that places undergo.

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