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Aug 2, 2007 · RAINBOW ABU BISHR wrote: Arabic: قَوْس قُزَحَ ("qaws quzah" where "qaws" means 'bow' and "quzah" an evil spirit or angel or non-Arab king or name of mountain in Arabia, etc.; there does not seem to be any consensus on what exactly "quzah" means; there is yet another view that states that قُزَح or quzah is a mistake and should have been قَزَع or qaza' meaning 'clouds' so ...
Nov 11, 2012 · Hello, According to Newton's studies, the tradition in France says that a rainbow is made of 7 colours : Fr. Violet, indigo, bleu, vert, jaune, orange, rouge (Eng. violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red) Actually, the number of colours is infinite... My question : how many colours do...
Aug 22, 2017 · Senior Member. South Bend, Indiana. English - US. Aug 22, 2017. #2. The rainbow flag (a colorful flag) is used as a symbol of gay pride. To be "down with something" is to accept it as something valid.
Dec 1, 2017 · 1. "Only one, or several" is one reason for choosing "the" or "a". 2. "This specific thing was talked about in a previous sentence" is another reason for "the", while "first time mentioned" uses "a". There are around four or five other rules, describing situations where "the" is used. There is not just one rule.
Mar 7, 2008 · It (rainbow) actually doesn’t quite look like either, unless one is thinking of the fully-drawn Assyrian bow which made a perfect, smooth semi-circle; very much like a rainbow. Looking up Platts I came across a really curious alternative. It mentions: ʻ alī-kī kamān, 'The bow of ʻ Alī,' the rainbow Now, even we never ever used this!
Mar 31, 2013 · Option B is the only correct one because the "much fainter secondary rainbow" needs an article for the sentence to be correct. None of the other options has an article, so they are all incorrect. None of the other options has an article, so they are all incorrect.
May 12, 2014 · In an appropriate context, there's no difference between "to look for" and "to be after". They mean "try to find". So in that line: we're trying to find the end of the same rainbow. In that line of the song, they needed to express the idea in two syllables for the metre, so they used "after". "Trying to find" is four syllables and doesn't fit ...
Dec 26, 2021 · Dec 26, 2021. #1. “How much extra taxes do they want us to pay?”. “Three hundred dollars.”. She was struck dumb for a moment. Three hundred dollars! It might just as well be three million dollars. “Why,” she floundered, “why—why, then we’ve got to raise three hundred, somehow.”. “Yes’m— add a rainbow and a moon or two.
Apr 27, 2011. #2. I think a 'rainbow kit' is an electronic tool kit (like race car pit crews might use). But you may want to wait until someone more knowledgeable about tires responds.
Oct 7, 2021 · BC, Canada. English. Oct 7, 2021. #5. I'd call it a simile. The metaphor version would be "He was a rainbow of a man". I think it's a simile that, as Edinburgher discerned, simply omits the operative term. A simile compares two things; a metaphor equates them. This is a comparison.
