Lightning vs Macbook - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between lightning and macbook

is that lightning is 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 while macbook is a -brand notebook computer, manufactured by apple computer.

As an adjective lightning

is extremely fast or sudden.

As a verb lightning

is (impersonal|childish|or|nonstandard) to produce lightning.

lightning

English

(wikipedia lightning) (wikiversity lightning lecture)

Noun

(en-noun)

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.

* 1901 , E. L. Morris, The Child's Eden , page 16:

It was the thought of hot July and August days, when the clouds piled up like woolly mountains, and lightnings streaked the sky.

A discharge of this kind.

The lightning was hot enough to melt the sand.

That tree was hit by lightning .

* 1881 , Daniel Pierce Thompson, The Green Mountain Boys , page 281:

The rain at length ceased; and the lightnings , as they played along the black parapet of clouds, that lay piled in the east, shone with less dazzling fierceness,

(figuratively) Anything that moves very fast.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), , 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.

The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers.

(Webster 1913)

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.

Derived terms

* ball lightning * Jewish lightning * greased lightning * lightning bug * lightning bolt * lightning conductor * lightning detector * lightning in a bottle * lightning rod * sheet lightning * upward lightning

Coordinate terms

* thunderbolt

Adjective

(-)

Extremely fast or sudden.

Moving at the speed of lightning.

Verb

(en verb)

(impersonal, childish, or, nonstandard) To produce lightning.

* 1916 , Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy

Or if it thundered and lightninged , Aunt Frances always dropped everything she might be doing and held Elizabeth Ann tightly in her arms until it was all over.

* 1968 , Dan Greenburg, Chewsday: a sex novel

The next day, though it is not only raining but thundering and lightninging as well, antiquing is seen by three-fourths of those present as a lesser evil than free play.

* 1987 , Tricia Springstubb, Eunice Gottlieb and the unwhitewashed truth about life

"Hey!" yelled Reggie, pulling her back. "Get in here! It's lightninging . I don't want a charcoal-broiled friend!"

* 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.

Usage notes

* bolt, flash, strike are some of the words used to count lightning. * The standard, but rare, verb for "lightning occurs" is lighten, used only in the impersonal form "it lightens", or as "it’s lightening".

macbook

English

Noun

(wikipedia MacBook) (en noun)

A -brand notebook computer, manufactured by Apple Computer.

* 2006 , Maria Langer & Miraz Jordan, Wordpress 2 , page 135

Hooo, boy! Sometimes I just can't let things rest. I have the new MacBook Pro.

* 2007 , Paul Ruditis, Everyone's a Critic , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 1416933921, page 52

The faux hippie dude working on his top-of-the-line seventeen-inch MacBook Pro looked way annoyed.

* 2007 November 11, Jay McInerney, “Faking It”, New York Times

In Bayard's nonreading utopia the printing press would never have been invented, let alone penicillin or the MacBook .

* 2008 , Stephen James and David Thomas, How to Hit a Curve Ball, Grill the Perfect Steak, and Become a Real Man , Tyndale House Publishers, ISBN 1414318626, page 114

I felt like such a wimp, sitting there with my MacBook and a 2 percent, decaf latte.

* 2008 March 18, “Now Blogging: Israel's Secret Service”, Bryant Park Project , National Public Radio

Now, normally, you would trip, you'd get back up, but apparently he was carrying his fancy new MacBook' Air, and he was trying to save the ' MacBook Air from falling