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Tb vs Thunderbolt - What's the difference?

tb | thunderbolt |

As an adverb tb

is .

As a noun thunderbolt is

a flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder.

tb

English

Noun

  • (pathology) tuberculosis (short for Tubercle Bacillus)
  • (baseball) The statistic reporting "Total Bases". A single is counted as one, a double as two, a triple as three, and a home run as four bases.
  • (electronics, computing) terabyte

    • Related terms

    * (pathology) Mtb

    Derived terms

    * (pathology) MDR-TB , XDR-TB , DR-TB , DS-TB

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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