lightning

Plural

lightnings

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.

   • Although we did not see the lightning, we did hear the thunder.
   • "Ruu": The adults in the village all said that children like me could calm the lightning and turn the storms into timely rain.
   • It was the thought of hot July and August days, when the clouds piled up like woolly mountains, and lightnings streaked the sky.

2. 2.A discharge of this kind.

   • That tree was hit by lightning.
   • The lightning was hot enough to melt the sand.

3. 3.Anything that moves very fast.

   • Nobs, though, was lightning by comparison with the slow thinking beast and dodged his opponent's thrust with ease. Then he raced to the rear of the tremendous thing and seized it by the tail.

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Extremely fast or sudden; moving (as if) at the speed of lightning.

   • The insurgents then began their lightning advance along the Euphrates in the Sunni heartland toward Baghdad.

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