Definition of Lightning

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Lightning

A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder.

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

Lightening.

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Lightning Quotations

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Mark Twain

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
Mark Twain

Electricity is really just organized lightning.
George Carlin

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
Clint Eastwood

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
Lee Iacocca

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
Lee Trevino

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
Lee Trevino

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.
Lee Trevino

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
Charles Dickens

Lightning Translations

lightning in Danish is lyn
lightning in Dutch is bliksem, schicht, flits, hemelvuur
lightning in Finnish is salama
lightning in German is Blitz, Blitzen, Blitz
lightning in Italian is baleno, lampeggiare, fulmine
lightning in Norwegian is lyn
lightning in Swedish is blixt

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