1) Atmospheric electricity 2) Class of World Sailing 3) Dog actor 4) Electrical breakdown 5) Exclusively Saxon word 6) Exclusively Anglo word 7) Fictional sergeant 8) Final Fantasy character 9) Full-rigged ship 10) Storm signal 11) Weather hazard 12) Word of purely Anglo origin 13) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins
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1) Electricity 2) Thunderbolt
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An electrical discharge from a thunderstorm.
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• (n.) 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. • (n.) The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenmen...
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Discharge of static electricity in the atmosphere, usually between the ground and a storm cloud.
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(from the article `Thornycroft, Sir John Isaac`) Soon after he established his launch-building and engineering works at Chiswick, London, in 1866, Thornycroft received the order for the first ...
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(from the article `clipper ship`) ...1851, made the voyage from New York City to San Francisco in a record 89 days, and the James Baines set the transatlantic sailing record of 12 ... ...Subsequently the Witch of the Wave (an American clipper) sailed from Canton to Deal in England in 1852 in just 90 days. Similar feats of sailing ... ...
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Multiple cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud lightning strokes during night-time. Credit: NOAA A discharge of atmospheric electricity resulting in a flash of light in the sky. Most lightning occurs between two parts of a single cloud, some between cloud and ground, and a small amount between one cl...
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1. 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. ... 2. The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening...
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Any form of visible electrical discharges produced by thunderstorms.
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Light'ning (līt'nĭng)
noun [ For
lightening , from
lighten to flash.]
1. 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 pas...
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An electrical discharge produced by a thunderstorm.
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Lightning is the discharge of static electricity built up in clouds by the movement and rubbing of ice and water particles at speeds of around 100 mph within the cloud which cause electrons to be split off from the ice, and scattered randomly. The static electricity builds up within the cloud, until eventually it releases itself, at first arcing be...
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HMS Lightning was a British Lightning class destroyer of 1920 tons displacement built under the British War construction programme and launched in 1940 and sunk during the Second World War. She was armed with six 4.7-inch guns; several smaller guns and eight 21-inch torpedo tubes. She was powered by two Admiralty 3-drum type boilers providing a top...
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Lightning is a British slang name for a slow person.
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Discharge of an electric field from a cloud.
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All of the various forms of electrical discharge produced by thunderstorms.
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A visible electrical discharge produced by a thunderstorm from one cloud to another or from cloud to ground. Lightning kills more people in the US than do tornadoes.
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Any form of visible electrical discharges produced by thunderstorms.
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Lightning is a powerful natural electrostatic discharge produced during a thunderstorm. Lightning's abrupt electric discharge is accompanied by the emission of light.
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Translations for „Lightning“ Become a Premium Member today! See under thunderstorms. Thunderstorm Especially in connection with hail, thunderstorms can cause great damage to the vineyard. The discharge of lightning occurs almost exclusively via the wires of... Full text
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static electrical charge that moves between clouds and the ground
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noun the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more
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All forms of visible electrical discharges moving through the atmosphere, usually eminating from tall cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds during thunderstorms. Lightning is often categorized for the manner in which it is visible to the observer: streak lightning, forked lightning, sheet lightning, heat lightning.
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Click images to enlargeHigh-voltage electrical discharge between two rainclouds or between a cloud and the Earth, caused by the build-up of electrical charges. Air in the path of lightning ionizes (becomes a conductor), and expands; the accompanying noise is heard as thunder. Currents of 20,000 amperes and tem...
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