Sentence examples for mean rain from inspiring English sources
It is distinctive of languages that linguistic units possess meaning by convention, and linguistic meaning is very different from what is called natural meaning, exemplified in statements such as "Those clouds mean rain" and "The fall in pressure means the valve is malfunctioning".
But if you evolved on such a planet, maybe you've already developed defense mechanisms against that (like getting under some shelter … I mean, rain drops can be lethal for insects, but they know enough to protect themselves).
That speech, if examined further, also raises the prospect of "a thousand jangling instruments", "sounds and sweet airs" and clouds that "open and show riches", all of which sounds just fine and dandy (although I'm not sold on that bit about the clouds opening. Does that mean rain?).
Clouds mean rain, a falling barometer means that a storm is coming, a twister in the sky means an approaching tornado that is, the one is a sign of the other; these relations exist in nature and were discovered, not invented, by humans.
This mean rain's rotting the starch right out of me.
I tried to get Poncho to clarify — did "wet" mean rain was coming, then?
And growing up near Manchester, that "given" usually meant rain.
But high freezing levels have meant rain below 1900m.
ReGen – which means "rain" in Dutch and German – sees the answer to the world's growing population and scarcer resources in self-sustaining, rural communities.
Purple or green means rain or snow, respectively.
