lightning

Plural: lightnings

Noun

• abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
• 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
• 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.
• A discharge of this kind.
• Anything that moves very fast.
• Gin.
• Obsolete form of lightening.

Adj

• Extremely fast or sudden; moving (as if) at the speed of lightning.

Verb

• To produce lightning.

Examples

• "Although we did not see the lightning, we did hear the thunder."
• "That tree was hit by lightning."
• "The lightning was hot enough to melt the sand."

Anagrams of lightning