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lightning

/lahyt-ning/US // ˈlaɪt nɪŋ //UK // (ˈlaɪtnɪŋ) //

闪电,闪电式,闪电般地,闪电般的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a brilliant electric spark discharge in the atmosphere, occurring within a thundercloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    light·ninged, light·ning.

    • : to emit a flash or flashes of lightning: If it starts to lightning, we'd better go inside.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or resembling lightning, especially in regard to speed of movement: lightning flashes; lightning speed.

Phrases

  • lightning never strikes twice in the same place
  • like greased lightning
  • quick as a wink (lightning)

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Outside awarded MountainFlow a Gear of the Show award at last year’s Outdoor Retailer Winter Market, where we look at hundreds of products pitched to us at lightning speed over the course of a few days.

  • The video captures a thread of electric current, or lightning leader, zipping down from a thundercloud to meet another leader reaching up from the ground.

  • It took a violent mob of insurrectionists and a lightning bolt moment in this very room.

  • Scientists have finally gotten a clear view of the spark that sets off a weird type of lightning called a blue jet.

  • The first is like estimating the distance to a lightning strike by timing the delayed arrival of the thunderclap.

  • Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.

  • Second, Michelle served as a lightning rod in the sense of drawing attacks away from other reform groups.

  • He made whatever was going on his own, and with such lightning speed you stopped concentrating.

  • There were flashes of lightning outside and the rumble of thunder.

  • Improvements in lightning tracking help scientists know where to send aircraft to look for fires.

  • The left heel followed like lightning, and the right paw also slipped, letting the bear again fall heavily on the ice below.

  • Spite, however, of punishments and prohibitions the use of tobacco spread with the rapidity of lightning.

  • Like lightning he turned and seized by the wrist a man who had already opened the bag and laid hold of some of its contents.

  • His only worry at the time lay in the dark sky above and the blue-white stabs of lightning that promised an electrical storm.

  • Another lightning flash blinded the girls and the thunder following fairly deafened them for the moment.