Explore Virga through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like precipitation or downfall. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Virga in a sentence
Virga meaning
- A type of note used in plainsong notation, having a tail and representing a single tone.
- A streak of rain or snow that is dissipated in falling and does not reach the ground, commonly appearing descending from a cloud layer.
- A unit of length: a rod, pole or perch (5½ yards); or a unit of area: a square rod, pole or perch.
Synonyms of Virga
Using Virga
- The main meaning on this page is: A type of note used in plainsong notation, having a tail and representing a single tone. | A streak of rain or snow that is dissipated in falling and does not reach the ground, commonly appearing descending from a cloud layer. | A unit of length: a rod, pole or perch (5½ yards); or a unit of area: a square rod, pole or perch.
- Useful related words include: precipitation, downfall.
- In the example corpus, virga often appears in combinations such as: the virga, virga and.
Context around Virga
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Virga
- In this selection, "virga" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, decuria, produce, velum, islands, produced and virgula stand out and add context to how "virga" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include along with virga and even and can produce virga very light. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "virga" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with virga
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He proposed calling this unit the virga. (7 words)
The sun rose at 6:27 and presented Calgary a beautiful patina of colour, along with virga and even a rainbow! (21 words)
He then suggested a system of sub-units, dividing successively by factors of ten into the centuria, decuria, virga, virgula, decima, centesima, and millesima. (24 words)
Low stratus clouds usually produce only light precipitation, but this always occurs as the feature praecipitatio due to the fact this cloud genus lies too close to the ground to allow for the formation of virga. (36 words)
After you purchase the Parchwater, you can now head back to Edeni in the Virga Islands to let him know you’ve figured out the key ingredient of this Potion of Blight. (32 words)
Cirrus clouds often produce hair-like filaments—similar to the virga produced in liquid–water clouds—called fall streaks, and they are made of heavier ice crystals that fall from the cloud. (32 words)
The sun rose at 6:27 and presented Calgary a beautiful patina of colour, along with virga and even a rainbow! (21 words)
Example sentences (11)
After you purchase the Parchwater, you can now head back to Edeni in the Virga Islands to let him know you’ve figured out the key ingredient of this Potion of Blight.
The sun rose at 6:27 and presented Calgary a beautiful patina of colour, along with virga and even a rainbow!
And Eileen laughed, her teeth flashing up at the slate-gray sky, tassled at its edges by virga that promised rain but never touched the earth.
Cirrus clouds often produce hair-like filaments—similar to the virga produced in liquid–water clouds—called fall streaks, and they are made of heavier ice crystals that fall from the cloud.
He proposed calling this unit the virga.
He then suggested a system of sub-units, dividing successively by factors of ten into the centuria, decuria, virga, virgula, decima, centesima, and millesima.
Hoppin (1978), p. 58. The basic notation of the virga and the punctum remained the symbols for individual notes, but other neumes soon developed which showed several notes joined together.
Low stratus clouds usually produce only light precipitation, but this always occurs as the feature praecipitatio due to the fact this cloud genus lies too close to the ground to allow for the formation of virga.
Opaque altocumulus associated with a weak frontal or low-pressure disturbance can produce virga, very light intermittent precipitation that evaporates before reaching the ground.
These species may be arranged into the variety, cumulus radiatus; and may be accompanied by up to seven supplementary features, cumulus pileus, velum, virga, praecipitatio, arcus, pannus, and tuba.
Virga is a feature seen with clouds producing precipitation that evaporates before reaching the ground, these being of the genera cirrocumulus, altocumulus, altostratus, nimbostratus, stratocumulus, cumulus, and cumulonimbus.
Common combinations with virga
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: