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derain

derain is the obsolete spelling of deraign.

Meaning of deraign

Verb

deraign (third-person singular simple present deraigns, present participle deraigning, simple past and past participle deraigned)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To prove or refute, especially through combat.
  2. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To engage in battle or combat.
    • Therewith they gan to hurtlen greedily, / Redoubted battaile ready to darrayne, / And clash their shields, and shake their swords on hy [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To determine or decide by combat; to fight out.
    • Now everything I had or sought, I've lost; / Upon a glimpse, I am disparadised. / So: go defiant to the nether world, / And darreign^([sic]) Lucifer's dread minions to / Worse torment than thou wouldst do thyself.2001, Scott Lynch-Giddings, A Fancyfull Historie of that Most Notable & Fameous Outlaw Robyn Hood, San Jose, Calif.: Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 108
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To ready or prepare for combat.

Verb

derain (third-person singular simple present derains, present participle deraining, simple past and past participle derained)

  1. (machine learning) To remove rain from an image.
    • Hence, in our proposed pipeline, we derain first, then followed by dehazing and at last finished with deraining.2017, Yang, Wenhan, Robby T. Tan, Jiashi Feng, Jiaying Liu, Zongming Guo, and Shuicheng Yan, “Deep joint rain detection and removal from a single image.”, in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on...
    • It is demonstrated that the proposed method yields in relatively higher performance in comparison to other state-of-the-art deraining models in terms of derained image quality and computing efficiency.2018, Chen Li, Yecai Guo, Qi Liu, Xiaodong Liu, “DR-Net: A Novel Generative Adversarial Network for Single Image Deraining”, in Security and Communication Networks, →DOI

Forms of derain

third-person singular presentderains
present participlederaining
past participlederained
pastderained

Origin of derain

See deraign.

From de- + rain. Compare deraining (noun).

Questions about derain

What does derain mean?
Derain means to remove rain from an image.
What is derain the obsolete spelling of?
Derain is the obsolete spelling of deraign.
What part of speech is derain?
Derain is a verb.
What is the past tense of derain?
The past tense of derain is derained.

Words near derain in the dictionary

  1. derailleur hangers
  2. derailleurs
  3. derailment
  4. derailments
  5. derails
  6. derain
  7. derained
  8. deraining
  9. derains
  10. deramciclane
  11. deramification

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