shower

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade); burst of hefty precipitation.
2. A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
3. An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
4. A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
5. A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
6. A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
7. A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
8. A pattern where the juggler passes objects horizontally from one hand to the other around chest height, and upward over the juggler's head to return to the first hand.
9. (obsolete) A battle, an attack; conflict.
10. A shower of shit.
11. Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier
12. (informal) A group of people perceived as incompetent or worthless.

Verb

1. To spray with (a specified liquid).
2. To bathe using a shower.
3. To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance.
4. To rain in a shower; to cascade down.

Sinònims

rain

🌧️

sprinkle

bathe

shower bath

douche

downpour

drizzle

shower-bath

rain shower

wash oneself

lavish

bath

🛀

take a shower

rainfall

wash

🧽

overwhelm

pour

torrent

deluge

pour down

cloudburst

bathroom

hail

inundate

jet

spray

sink

pelt

drown

exhibitioner

exhibitor

cascade

flood

flow

strew

rainstorm

flurry

disseminate

besiege

scatter

gush

light rain

pour over

shower down

have a shower

heavy shower

water

🚰

assail

spate

shuttlecock

slop

slosh

smother

snow

❄️

spatter

splash

spot

spout

sprayer

spray irrigation

spread

sprinkler irrigation

spurt

squall

stipple

storm

stow

stream

streaming

stud

swarm

swim

🏊

take a bath

toilet

🚽

washing

wave

👋

weep

whelm

whiten

bask in the sun

cascade down

clean oneself

showery rain

rain upon

ceiling shower

cosmic-ray shower

washdown

dust-storm

sprinkling irrigation

squirting irrigation

take a shower

air shower

have a shower

avalanche

bandy

barrage

bathing

blizzard

blow

bombard

burst

cloud-burst

congest

current

deaf

demonstrator

dip

disgorge

dive

douse

downfall

drencher

drop

duster

fling

fluctuate

flush

fountain

⛲

geyser

immerse

immersed

mist

overflow

overhead irrigation

overrun

pour on

precipitate

precipitation

propagate

pump

punctuate

rabble

rain cats and dogs

ray

run

rush

sauna

set

short

showerhead

showerstall

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈʃaʊ.ə(ɹ)/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: shour

Heretat de anglès antic: sċūr

Cognat amb neerlandès: schoer

Cognat amb alemany: Schauer

Cognat amb nòrdic antic: skúr

Cognat amb noruec: skur

Cognat amb suec: skur

Heretat de anglès mitjà: showre

Heretat de anglès antic: sċēawere

Cognat amb neerlandès: schouwer

In summary

From Middle English shour, from Old English sċūr, from Proto-West Germanic *skūru, from Proto-Germanic *skūrō, probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱēwer- (“north; north wind; cold wind; rain shower”). Cognate with Dutch schoer, German Schauer, Old Norse skúr, Norwegian skur, Swedish skur.