Lightning vs. Thunderbolt
Difference Between Lightning and Thunderbolt
Lightningnoun
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.Thunderboltnoun
A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder.
Lightningnoun
A discharge of this kind.
The lightning was hot enough to melt the sand.That tree was hit by lightning.Thunderboltnoun
(figuratively) An event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected.
Lightningnoun
(figuratively) Anything that moves very fast.
Thunderboltnoun
Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
Lightningnoun
The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers.
Thunderboltnoun
(soccer) A very powerful shot.
Lightningadjective
Extremely fast or sudden.
Thunderboltnoun
(paleontology) A belemnite, or thunderstone.
Lightningadjective
Moving at the speed of lightning.
Thunderboltnoun
(heraldry) A charge in the form of two joined bundles with four rays of lightning emerging from them, resembling the thunderbolt of Jupiter.
Lightningverb
To produce lightning.
Thunderboltnoun
A daring or irresistible hero.
Lightningnoun
abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
Thunderboltnoun
a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
Lightningnoun
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
Thunderboltnoun
a shocking surprise;
news of the attack came like a bombshell
