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'produce rainfalls' vs. 'carry rainfalls'



 
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'produce rainfalls' vs. 'carry rainfalls' #1 (permalink) Wed Jun 23, 2004 21:39 pm   'produce rainfalls' vs. 'carry rainfalls'
 

Hello Alan,

can I please ask a question regarding this test:

Test No. incompl/elem-22 "Weather Forecast", question 4

These will ......... some rainfall later this morning.

(a) bear
(b) carry
(c) produce
(d) present

Test No. incompl/elem-22 "Weather Forecast", answer 4

These will produce some rainfall later this morning.

Correct answer: (c) produce

Why is it 'produce' rainfalls and not 'carry rainfalls'?

Thank you
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Produce/carry #2 (permalink) Thu Jun 24, 2004 9:35 am   Produce/carry
 

Hi Nicole,

It is true that the clouds carry 'rain' but I am referring to 'rainfall' and I have used the verb 'produce' to indicate that the clouds will CAUSE rainfall. In other words the clouds will create the rainfall.

Hope this helps

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Rainfalls #3 (permalink) Thu Jun 24, 2004 15:09 pm   Rainfalls
 

Hi Alan,

thank you for your explanation, it make sense to me.
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Produce/carry #4 (permalink) Tue Jan 09, 2007 16:20 pm   Produce/carry
 

Alan wrote:
Hi Nicole,

It is true that the clouds carry 'rain' but I am referring to 'rainfall' and I have used the verb 'produce' to indicate that the clouds will CAUSE rainfall. In other words the clouds will create the rainfall.

Hope this helps

Alan


Hi Alan in the statement above you did, you are using some verbs to refer to the rainfall such as "the clouds will cause rainfall" "the clouds wills create rainfall" and the sentence from the test says "These will produce some rainfall..."

Do you mean cause, produce, make and create are a kind of synonims?
I want to say "Me estoy saliendo del tema" but i don`t know how to write it in english!!
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Produce/carry #5 (permalink) Tue Jan 09, 2007 23:18 pm   Produce/carry
 

blazya wrote:
I want to say "Me estoy saliendo del tema" but i don`t know how to write it in english!!


I'm getting off topic.
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'produce rainfalls' vs. 'carry rainfalls' #6 (permalink) Wed Jan 10, 2007 15:31 pm   'produce rainfalls' vs. 'carry rainfalls'
 

Hi Conchita, I aprecciate you too much for the translation, I`m getting off topic, by the way "I`m getting off" is an idiom or something like that?
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'produce rainfalls' vs. 'carry rainfalls' #7 (permalink) Wed Jan 10, 2007 23:39 pm   'produce rainfalls' vs. 'carry rainfalls'
 

The phrasal verb 'get off' has several meanings, which you can look up in dictionaries like this one:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/results.asp?searchword=get+off

As for 'off topic', you can have a look here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-topic
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'produce rainfalls' vs. 'carry rainfalls' #8 (permalink) Sun Apr 26, 2009 1:02 am   'produce rainfalls' vs. 'carry rainfalls'
 

i got it,, thanks
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'produce rainfalls' vs. 'carry rainfalls' #9 (permalink) Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:39 pm   'produce rainfalls' vs. 'carry rainfalls'
 

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'produce rainfalls' vs. 'carry rainfalls' #10 (permalink) Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:38 am   'produce rainfalls' vs. 'carry rainfalls'
 

Hello,
Would you please help me?

Couldn't heavy clouds both produce and bear rainfall? I just can't catch the meaning clearly.

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'produce rainfalls' vs. 'carry rainfalls' #11 (permalink) Thu Jun 09, 2011 14:10 pm   'produce rainfalls' vs. 'carry rainfalls'
 

Yes, they could.
Clouds produce rainwater (condensation), then bear it until it becomes so heavy the cloud cannot sustain its mass. Then it rains (precipitation).
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'produce rainfalls' vs. 'carry rainfalls' #12 (permalink) Fri Jun 10, 2011 6:03 am   'produce rainfalls' vs. 'carry rainfalls'
 

Beeesneees wrote:
Yes, they could.
Clouds produce rainwater (condensation), then bear it until it becomes so heavy the cloud cannot sustain its mass. Then it rains (precipitation).


Hello Beeesneees,
Thanks for your reply, and if they could then could I choose answer (a) bear, or it will not fit to the context of the sentence.

These will bear some rainfall later this morning.
(in test No. incompl/elem-22 "Weather Forecast'').
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'produce rainfalls' vs. 'carry rainfalls' #13 (permalink) Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:59 am   'produce rainfalls' vs. 'carry rainfalls'
 

That's not correct, Seda. Please see post #2 above.
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