shower
shower bath | washing yourself by standing upright under water sprayed from a nozzle, he took a shower after the game |
flow
stream | the act of flowing or streaming, continuous progression |
cloud chamber
Wilson cloud chamber | apparatus that detects the path of high-energy particles passing through a supersaturated vapor, each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track |
| shower | a plumbing fixture that sprays water over you, they installed a shower in the bathroom |
| shower cap | a tight cap worn to keep hair dry while showering |
| shower curtain | a curtain that keeps water from splashing out of the shower area |
| shower room | a room with several showers |
shower stall
shower bath | booth for washing yourself, usually in a bathroom |
bloodstream
blood stream | the blood flowing through the circulatory system |
| stream of consciousness | the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience |
| stream of consciousness | a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy |
| war cloud | an ominous sign that war threatens |
shower
cascade | a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower, a little shower of rose petals, a sudden cascade of sparks |
current
stream | a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes), the raft floated downstream on the current, he felt a stream of air, the hose ejected a stream of water |
torrent
violent stream | a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid), the houses were swept away in the torrent |
swarm
cloud | a group of many things in the air or on the ground, a swarm of insects obscured the light, clouds of blossoms, it discharged a cloud of spores |
| shower | a party of friends assembled to present gifts (usually of a specified kind) to a person, her friends organized a baby shower for her when she was expecting |
| Oort cloud | (astronomy) a hypothetical huge collection of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto, perturbations (as by other stars) can upset a comet's orbit and may send it tumbling toward the sun |
stream
flow
current | dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas, two streams of development run through American history, stream of consciousness, the flow of thought, the current of history |
Saint Cloud
St. Cloud | a town in central Minnesota on the Mississippi River, granite quarries |
altocumulus
altocumulus cloud | a cumulus cloud at an intermediate altitude of or miles |
altostratus
altostratus cloud | a stratus cloud at an intermediate altitude of or miles |
cirrocumulus
cirrocumulus cloud | a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples |
cirrostratus
cirrostratus cloud | a thin uniform layer of hazy cloud at high altitude |
cirrus
cirrus cloud | a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude ( to miles) |
| cloud | a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude |
| cloud bank | a layer of clouds seen from a distance |
cumulonimbus
cumulonimbus cloud
thundercloud | a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity, associated with thunderstorms |
cumulus
cumulus cloud | a globular cloud |
| Large Magellanic Cloud | the larger of the two Magellanic Clouds visible from the southern hemisphere |
| Magellanic Cloud | either of two small galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, visible near the south celestial pole |
nacreous cloud
mother-of-pearl cloud | a luminous iridescent cloud at a high altitude that may be seen when the sun is a few degrees below the horizon |
nimbus
nimbus cloud
rain cloud | a dark grey cloud bearing rain |
| Small Magellanic Cloud | the smaller of the two Magellanic Clouds visible from the southern hemisphere |
| storm cloud | a heavy dark cloud presaging rain or a storm |
stratus
stratus cloud | a large dark low cloud |
stream
watercourse | a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth |
tidal river
tidewater river
tidal stream
tidewater stream | a stream in which the effects of the tide extend far upstream |
exhibitor
exhibitioner
shower | someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see |
seeder
cloud seeder | a person who seeds clouds |
| Red Cloud | leader of the Oglala who resisted the development of a trail through Wyoming and Montana by the United States government (-) |
| cloud | any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible |
| dust cloud | a cloud of dust suspended in the air |
mushroom
mushroom cloud
mushroom-shaped cloud | a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb) |
| jet stream | a high-speed high-altitude airstream blowing from west to east near the top of the troposphere, has important effects of the formation of weather fronts |
| Gulf stream | a warm ocean current that flows from the Gulf of Mexico northward through the Atlantic Ocean |
shower
rain shower | a brief period of precipitation, the game was interrupted by a brief shower |
meteor shower
meteor stream | a transient shower of meteors when a meteor swarm enters the earth's atmosphere |
stream orchid
chatterbox
giant helleborine
Epipactis gigantea | orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf |
cloud grass
Agrostis nebulosa | Spanish grass with light feathery panicles grown for dried bouquets |