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Look up: THUNDER

  1. thunder
    Type: Term Definitions: 1. keraunophobia, tonitrophobia, brontophobia.
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  2. thunder
    [n] - a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning 2. [v] - be the case that thunder is being heard 3. [v] - move fast, noisily, and heavily 4. [v] - to make or produce a loud noise 5. [v] - utter words loudly and forcefully
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Thunder
    Series of tracked self-propelled guns [IR]
    Found on http://www.jedsite.info/index.html

  4. thunder
    sharp or rumbling sound which accompanies lightning. Category: The cosmos
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  5. Thunder
    Thun'der noun [ Middle English þunder , þonder , þoner , Anglo-Saxon þunor ; akin to þunian to stretch, to thunder, Dutch donder thunder, German donner , Old High German
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/52

  6. Thunder
    Thun'der intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Thundered ; present participle & verbal noun Thundering .] [ Anglo-Saxon þunrian . See Thunder ,
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/52

  7. Thunder
    Thun'der transitive verb To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation. « Oracles severe Were daily thundered in our general's ear.» Dryden. « An archdeacon, as being a prela...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/52

  8. thunder
    1. To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously. 'Canst thou thunder with a voice like him?' (Job xl. 9) ... 2. To make a loud noise; especially. A heavy sound, of some continuance. 'His dreadful voic...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  9. Thunder
    • (n.) An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation. • (v. t.) To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation. • (n.) Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon. • (n.) To utter violent denunciation. • (n.) To produce thunder; t...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. thunder
    sound caused by a lightning discharge. Lightning heats the air in its path and causes a large over-pressure of the air within its channel. The ... [4 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/t/46

  11. Thunder
    Thunder is a English boy name. The meaning of the name is `stormy tempered. regarded as the voice of God ` The name Thunder doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Thunder seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/boys/Thun

  12. thunder
    thunder, thunderous, thundery, thunderous, thunderously, thunderousness 1. A booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning. 2. Noise resembling thunder; such as, a loud deep rumbling noise resembling thunder. 3. A manifestation of someone's anger in an exp...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  13. Thunder
    Sound created when lightning causes the rapid expansion of atmospheric gases along its strike path.
    Found on http://www.physicalgeography.net/physgeo

  14. thunder
    • a deep prolonged loud noise
    • a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning

    Found on

  15. THUNDER
    The sound emitted by rapidly expanding gases along the channel of a lightning discharge. Over three-quarters of lightning's electrical discharge is used in heating the gases in the atmosphere in and immediately around the visible channel. Temperatures can rise to over 10,000 °C in microseconds, resulting in a violent pressure wave, compo...
    Found on http://www.weather.com/glossary/t.html

  16. Thunder
    The sound emitted from a lightning channel during a lightning discharge caused by rapidly expanding gases. The sound can have a number of different characters: roll, rumble, crack, crash, series of short bursts.
    Found on http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/ge

  17. thunder
    noise usually followed by a flash of lightning
    Found on http://www.eslgold.com/acad_vocab_defini

  18. thunder
    thunder, sound produced along a path of a lightning flash, caused by the rapid heating and expansion of the adjacent air. Rolling thunder occurs either as a result of the time difference between sounds from the far and near end of a flash, or when mountains, layers of air, or other obstructions caus...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/weather/A0

  19. Thunder
    Thunder is a loud noise which accompanies lightning, but appears to follow it due to the difference at which sound and light travel. Thunder is the noise which occurs due to the disruption of the air by the electrical discharge (lightning), which at five times the heat of the sun actually causes the air to explode.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  20. Thunder
    `Thunder` is the sound made by lightning. Depending on the nature of the lightning and distance of the listener, thunder can range from a sharp, loud crack to a long, low rumble (brontide). The sudden increase in pressure and temperature from lightning produces rapid expansion of the air surrounding...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder

  21. Thunder
    (comics) image= --> `Thunder` (real name `Anissa Pierce`) is a fictional superhero published by DC Comics. She was first described in Green Arrow vol. 2 #26 (Late July 2003) and first appeared the next month in Outsiders vol. 3 #1. Thunder was created by Judd Winick and Tom Rane...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder

  22. Thunder
    (band) `Thunder` were an English hard rock band, who originally formed in 1989 when the band Terraplane broke up, leaving lead singer Danny Bowes and guitarist/main songwriter Luke Morley to form a new group, namely Thunder. Retaining Terraplane drummer Gary James (popularly known as `Harry` ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder

  23. Thunder
    (Prince song) "`Thunder`" is a song by Prince and The New Power Generation, from the 1991 album Diamonds and Pearls. It was issued as a limited, individually numbered 12-inch single picture disc in the UK only, and the edited version was available only on the promotional sing...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder

  24. Thunder
    (Andy Taylor album) `Thunder` is the first solo album by British guitarist Andy Taylor, released in 1987. Track listing: #"I Might Lie" (Taylor, Jones) – 5:20 #"Don`t Let Me Die Young" (Taylor, Jones) – 4:23 #"Life Goes On" (Taylor, Jones) â...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder

  25. Thunder
    (film) `Thunder` (1929) is a melodrama film released by MGM, starring Lon Chaney. Directed by William Nigh, it is noteworthy for several reasons. First, it was Chaney`s penultimate film appearance and his last silent film, as well as one of the very last films of the silent era. Second...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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