Thunder vs Lighten - What's the difference?
thunder | lighten |
The sound caused by the discharge of atmospheric electrical charge.
A sound resembling thunder; especially, one produced by a jet airplane in flight.
A deep, rumbling noise.
An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
* Prescott
(obsolete) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) The spotlight.
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
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To alleviate; to reduce the burden of.
To make light or lighter in weight.
To make less serious or more cheerful.
* Bible, Psalms xxxiv. 5
To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate.
* Dryden
To become light or lighter in weight.
To become less serious or more cheerful.
To become brighter or clearer; to brighten.
To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or like, lightning; to flash.
* Shakespeare
To emit or disclose in, or as if in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.
* Shakespeare
To descend; to light.
* Book of Common Prayer
To illuminate with knowledge; to enlighten.
* Sir J. Davies
As a noun thunder
is hoof.As a verb lighten is
to alleviate; to reduce the burden of.thunder
English
Noun
(wikipedia thunder)- Thunder ''is preceded by lightning.
- Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede.
- The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.
- The revenging gods / 'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend.
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 thighsSee also
* lightningVerb
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Derived terms
* thundererlighten
English
Verb
(en verb)- They looked unto him, were lightened .
- to lighten''' an apartment with lamps or gas; to '''lighten the streets
- A key of fire ran all along the shore, / And lightened all the river with a blaze.
- This dreadful night, / That thunders, lightens , opens graves, and roars / As doth the lion.
- His eye lightens forth / Controlling majesty.
- O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us.
- Lighten my spirit with one clear heavenly ray.