unrained
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
unrained (not comparable)
- Not rained upon.
- 1970, Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.), Science Information Service, Jennifer G. Blumenthal, American Society for Testing and Materials, Coden for Periodical Titles (including Non-periodical Titles and Deleted Coden), ASTM International, →ISBN, page 187:
- The "unrained" surfaces were not rated visually in this study as the final aim of the method evaluation was to compare the values of the "rained" surfaces of the test formulations to the "rained" surfaces of the reference formulations.
- 1971, Proceedings of the British Insecticide & Fungicide Conference:
- Measurement was by mildew infestation on rye, ascertained as % of the rained and unrained untreated control. Table 2[:] Washing effect of rain on triforine formulations; mildew assessment as % of the rained and unrained control on rye […]
- 2011 (original: ????), William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses, (Vintage, →ISBN, page 364:
- Stevens reached over and cut the switch, so that the editor's car coasted, slowing as he began to brake it, the hearse and the other ear drawing rapidly away now as though in flight, the light and unrained summer dust spurting from beneath the fleeing wheels; soon they were gone.
Usage notes edit
- Usually construed as unrained on or unrained upon.