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Recount is a related term of thunder.


As nouns the difference between recount and thunder

is that recount is retelling, narration, rendering or recount can be a counting again, as of votes while thunder is hoof.

As a verb recount

is to tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of or recount can be to count or reckon again.

recount

English

Etymology 1

From and (etyl) reconter, variant of (etyl) raconter.

Noun

(en noun)
  • Retelling, narration, rendering

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of.
    • The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.
  • To rehearse; to enumerate.
    • to recount one's blessings

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A counting again, as of votes.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To count or reckon again.

    • Anagrams

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    thunder

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia thunder)
  • The sound caused by the discharge of atmospheric electrical charge.
    • Thunder ''is preceded by lightning.
  • A sound resembling thunder; especially, one produced by a jet airplane in flight.
  • A deep, rumbling noise.
    • Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede.
  • An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
  • * Prescott
    • The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.
  • (obsolete) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The revenging gods / 'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend.
  • (figuratively) The spotlight.

    • Usage notes

    * roll, clap, peal are some of the words used to count thunder.

    Derived terms

    * thunder and lightning * thunderation * thunderbird * thunderbolt * thunderboomer * thunderbox * thunderclap * thundercloud * thunderhead * thunderous * thundersquall * thunderstorm * thunder thighs

    See also

    * lightning

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; often used impersonally.
  • (label) To make a noise like thunder.
  • (label) To talk with a loud, threatening voice.
  • (label) To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
  • To produce something with incredible power
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 19 , author=Jonathan Stevenson , title=Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Just as it appeared Arsenal had taken the sting out of the tie, Johnson produced a moment of outrageous quality, thundering a bullet of a left foot shot out of the blue and into the top left-hand corner of Wojciech Szczesny's net with the Pole grasping at thin air.}}

    Derived terms

    * thunderer