How to pronounce“Lightning”in English
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Definitions of “Lightning”
A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.
“Although we did not see the lightning, we did hear the thunder.”
A discharge of this kind.
“The lightning was hot enough to melt the sand.”
Extremely fast or sudden; moving (as if) at the speed of lightning.
“The insurgents then began their lightning advance along the Euphrates in the Sunni heartland toward Baghdad.”
To produce lightning.
“Or if it thundered and lightninged, Aunt Frances always dropped everything she might be doing and held Elizabeth Ann tightly in her arms until it was all over.”