rain gage

Questions about rain gage

What is another word for rain gage?

It depends which rain gage you mean. In the sense “gauge consisting of an instrument to measure the quantity of precipitation”, the synonyms are rain gauge, pluviometer, udometer. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of rain gage?

WordNet records no antonym for rain gage. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for rain gage come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of rain gage

• Full entry for rain gageAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for rain gageWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.