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Levin vs Thunderbolt - What's the difference?

levin | thunderbolt |

As nouns the difference between levin and thunderbolt

is that levin is (archaic) lightning; a bolt of lightning; also, a bright flame or light while thunderbolt is a flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder.

levin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) Lightning; a bolt of lightning; also, a bright flame or light.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= c1280 , year_published= 1868 , author= Anonymous , by= , title= , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=4XvmHG8pwpcC&pg=PA76 , original= , chapter= Godrich Displays Great Prowess , section= line 2690 , isbn= , edition= , publisher= N. Trübner & Company , location= London , editor= , volume= , page= 76 , passage= And forth rith al so leuin fares. }}
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.5:
  • *:neither blood in face nor life in hart / It left, but both did quite drye up and blast; / As piercing levin , which the inner part / Of every thing consumes, and calcineth by art.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1847 , year_published= 1848 , author= , by= , title= , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=-JF64q20JJgC&pg=PR9 , original= , chapter= , section= , isbn= , edition= , publisher= , location= Leipzig , editor= Currer Bell , volume= 1 , page= ix , passage= I cannot tell; but I think if some of those amongst whom he hurls the Greek fire of his sarcasm, and over whom he flashes the levin -brand of his denunciation, were to take his warnings in time — they or their seed might escape a fatal Ramoth-Gilead. }}

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    thunderbolt

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder.
  • (figuratively) An event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected.
  • * Dryden
    • the Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of war
  • Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
  • * Hakewill
    • He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of excommunication.
  • (soccer) A very powerful shot.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=February 5 , author=Michael Kevin Darling , title=Tottenham 2 - 1 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Substitute Niko Kranjcar's injury-time thunderbolt gave Tottenham a dramatic win over Bolton.}}
  • (paleontology) A belemnite, or thunderstone.
  • (heraldiccharge) A charge in the form of two joined bundles with four rays of lightning emerging from them, resembling the thunderbolt of Jupiter.

    • Derived terms

    * thunderbolt beetle

    See also

    * thunderclap