Thunder vs Lighting - What's the difference?
thunder | lighting |
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
* {{quote-news
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, date=January 19
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, title=Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal
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The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.
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, title= The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.
* 2012 , Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense (page 142)
The process of annealing metals.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between thunder and lighting
is that thunder is the sound caused by the discharge of atmospheric electrical charge while lighting is the equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.As a verb thunder
is to produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; often used impersonally.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
* thundererlighting
English
Noun
(wikipedia lighting) (en noun)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
- We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings , so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?