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Sunbow vs. Rainbow — What's the Difference?

Sunbow vs. Rainbow — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Sunbow and Rainbow

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Sunbow

A rainbowlike display of colors resulting from refraction of sunlight through a spray of water.

Rainbow

A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It takes the form of a multicoloured circular arc.

Sunbow

A bow or arc of prismatic colors like a rainbow, caused by refraction through a spray of water from a cataract, waterfall, fountain, etc., rather than through droplets of rain.

Rainbow

An arc of spectral colors, usually identified as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, that appears in the sky opposite the sun as a result of the refractive dispersion of sunlight in drops of rain or mist.

Sunbow

A rainbow; an iris.
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Rainbow

A similar arc or band, as one produced by a prism or by iridescence.

Rainbow

A graded display of colors.

Rainbow

An illusory hope
Chasing the rainbow of overnight success.

Rainbow

A diverse assortment or collection.

Rainbow

A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.

Rainbow

Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.

Rainbow

(often used with “of”) A wide assortment; a varied multitude.
A rainbow of possibilities

Rainbow

(figurative) An illusion; a mirage.
Many electoral promises are rainbows, vanishing soon after poll day.

Rainbow

(baseball) A curveball, particularly a slow one.

Rainbow

(poker slang) In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.

Rainbow

A person within the LGBT community.
Oh look, the rainbow came back.

Rainbow

Made up of several races or ethnicities, or (more broadly) of several cultural or ideological factions.

Rainbow

(attributive) LGBT.

Rainbow

Composed entirely of different suits.

Rainbow

Of or pertaining to rainbow tables.
Rainbow attack

Rainbow

(transitive) To brighten with, or as with, a rainbow; to pattern with the colours of the rainbow.

Rainbow

(intransitive) To take the appearance of a rainbow.

Rainbow

(climbing) In climbing gyms where the rocks to climb are colored to indicate suggested climbing routes, to climb rocks of different colors, thereby ignoring such routes.

Rainbow

A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.

Rainbow

An arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain

Rainbow

An illusory hope;
Chasing rainbows

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