shower
noun
1 shower
A plumbing fixture that sprays water over you.
Roget 72:
assemblage;
collection,
collocation,
colligation†;
compilation,
levy,
gathering,
ingathering,
muster,
attroupement†;
team;
concourse,
conflux†,
congregation,
contesseration†,
convergence
etc.
290;
meeting,
levee,
reunion,
drawing room,
at home;
conversazione [It]
etc.
(social gathering)
892;
assembly,
congress;
convention,
conventicle;
gemote†;
conclave
etc.
(council)
696;
posse,
posse comitatus [Lat.];
Noah's ark.
miscellany,
collectanea†;
museum,
menagerie
etc.
(store)
636;
museology†.
crowd,
throng,
group;
flood,
rush,
deluge;
rabble,
mob,
press,
crush,
cohue†,
horde,
body,
tribe;
crew,
gang,
knot,
squad,
band,
party;
swarm,
shoal,
school,
covey,
flock,
herd,
drove;
atajo†;
bunch,
drive,
force,
mulada [U.S.];
remuda†;
roundup [U.S.];
array,
bevy,
galaxy;
corps,
company,
troop,
troupe,
task force;
army,
regiment
etc.
(combatants)
726;
host
etc.
(multitude)
102;
populousness.
clan,
brotherhood,
fraternity,
sorority,
association
etc.
(party)
712.
volley,
shower,
storm,
cloud.
group,
cluster,
Pleiades,
clump,
pencil;
set,
batch,
lot,
pack;
budget,
assortment,
bunch;
parcel;
packet,
package;
bundle,
fascine†,
fasces†,
bale;
seron†,
seroon†;
fagot,
wisp,
truss,
tuft;
shock,
rick,
fardel†,
stack,
sheaf,
haycock†;
fascicle,
fascicule†,
fasciculus [Lat.],
gavel,
hattock†,
stook†.
accumulation
etc.
(store)
636;
congeries,
heap,
lump,
pile,
rouleau†,
tissue,
mass,
pyramid;
bing†;
drift;
snowball,
snowdrift;
acervation†,
cumulation;
glomeration†,
agglomeration;
conglobation†;
conglomeration,
conglomerate;
coacervate [Chem],
coacervation [Chem],
coagmentation†,
aggregation,
concentration,
congestion,
omnium gaterum [Lat.],
spicilegium†,
black hole of Calcutta;
quantity
etc.
(greatness)
31.
collector,
gatherer;
whip,
whipper in.
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Polish: prysznic
2 shower
Washing yourself by standing upright under water sprayed from a nozzle:
— He took a shower after the game.
synonym: shower bath.
Dutch: douche, stortbad
Polish: natrysk, tusz, prysznic
3 shower
A brief period of precipitation:
— The game was interrupted by a brief shower.
synonym: rain shower.
Dutch: vlaag, regenbui, bui
4 shower
A sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower:
— A little shower of rose petals.
synonym: cascade.
Roget 348:
running water.
jet,
spirt†,
spurt,
squirt,
spout,
spray,
splash,
rush,
gush,
jet d'eau [Fr.];
sluice.
water spout,
water fall;
cascade,
force,
foss†;
lin†,
linn†;
ghyll†,
Niagara;
cataract,
rapids,
white water,
catadupe†,
cataclysm;
debacle,
inundation,
deluge;
chute,
washout.
rain,
rainfall;
serein†;
shower,
scud;
downpour;
driving rain,
drenching rain,
cloudburst;
hyetology†,
hyetography†;
predominance of Aquarius†,
reign of St. Swithin;
mizzle†,
drizzle,
stillicidum†,
plash;
dropping
etc.
v.;
falling weather;
northeaster,
hurricane,
typhoon.
stream,
course,
flux,
flow,
profluence†;
effluence
etc.
(egress)
295;
defluxion†;
flowing
etc.
v.;
current,
tide,
race,
coulee.
spring,
artesian well,
fount,
fountain;
rill,
rivulet,
gill,
gullet,
rillet†;
streamlet,
brooklet;
branch [U.S.];
runnel,
sike†,
burn,
beck,
creek,
brook,
bayou,
stream,
river;
reach,
tributary.
geyser,
spout,
waterspout.
body of water,
torrent,
rapids,
flush,
flood,
swash;
spring tide,
high tide,
full tide;
bore,
tidal bore,
eagre†,
hygre†;
fresh,
freshet;
indraught†,
reflux,
undercurrent,
eddy,
vortex,
gurge†,
whirlpool,
Maelstrom,
regurgitation,
overflow;
confluence,
corrivation†.
wave,
billow,
surge,
swell,
ripple;
anerythmon gelasma [Gr.];
beach comber,
riffle [U.S.],
rollers,
ground swell,
surf,
breakers,
white horses,
whitecaps;
rough sea,
heavy sea,
high seas,
cross sea,
long sea,
short sea,
chopping sea.
[Science of fluids in motion]
hydrodynamics;
hydraulics,
hydraulicostatics†;
rain gauge,
flowmeter;
pegology†.
irrigation
etc.
(water)
337;
pump;
watering pot,
watering cart;
hydrant,
syringe;
garden hose,
lawn spray;
bhisti†,
mussuk†.
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Dutch: stortbad, douche, zich douchen
5 shower
Someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see.
synonyms: exhibitioner, exhibitor.
Dutch: bioscoopexploitant, exposant, standhouder
Polish: eksponent, wystawca
6 shower
A party of friends assembled to present gifts (usually of a specified kind) to a person.
Dutch: stortbad
verb
1 shower
Expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns:
— He was showered with praise.
synonym: lavish.
Dutch: regenen
2 shower
3 shower
Take a shower; wash one's body in the shower.
4 shower
Rain abundantly:
— Meteors showered down over half of Australia.
synonym: shower down.
5 shower
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