Definition of Lightning

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

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

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

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

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.
Richard Branson

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

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
Woodrow Wilson

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

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
John Ruskin

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

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel Butler

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
Buffalo Bill

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
Black Elk

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Ken Kesey

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
Horace

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.
Loretta Lynn

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
Bill Bryson

He must be lightning slow.
Ron Atkinson

I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun.
Kristen Bell

I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.
Howard Stern

I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
Oliver Stone

The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.
Rick Pitino

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.
James Otis

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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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