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lightning
English
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Etymology
From light(e)n +? -ing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la?t.n??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?la?t.n??/, [?l????.n??], [?l????.n??]
Noun
lightning (usually uncountable, plural lightnings)
- 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.
- A discharge of this kind.
- (figuratively) Anything that moves very fast.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot, chapter V:
- 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.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot, chapter V:
- The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers.
Quotations
- 2008, Kathy Clark, Stand By Your Man, page 280:
- Manny drove a few miles per hour under the speed limit, entranced by the awesome display of lightning streaking out of the clouds toward earth.
Usage notes
- bolt, flash, strike are some of the words used to count lightning.
Coordinate terms
- thunderbolt
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
lightning (not comparable)
- Extremely fast or sudden; moving (as if) at the speed of lightning.
Translations
Verb
lightning (third-person singular simple present lightnings, present participle lightninging, simple past and past participle lightninged)
- (impersonal, childish or nonstandard, intransitive) To produce lightning.
- 1988, Carlo Collodi, Roberto Innocenti, The adventures of Pinocchio
- I don't know, Father, but believe me, it has been a horrible night — one that I'll never forget. It thundered and lightninged, and I was very hungry.
- 1988, Carlo Collodi, Roberto Innocenti, The adventures of Pinocchio
Usage notes
- The standard, but rare, verb for "produce lightning" is lighten, used only in the impersonal form "it lightens", or as "it’s lightening".
Translations
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cows
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka?z/
- Rhymes: -a?z
- Homophone: Cowes
Etymology 1
Noun
cows
- plural of cow
See also
- cattle
Etymology 2
Verb
cows
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cow
Etymology 3
Noun
cows (uncountable)
- Alternative form of kouse
Anagrams
- CWOs, scow
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