Thunder
['θʌndə] or ['θʌndɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning.
(verb.) utter words loudly and forcefully; '`Get out of here,' he roared'.
(verb.) to make or produce a loud noise; 'The river thundered below'; 'The engine roared as the driver pushed the car to full throttle'.
(verb.) move fast, noisily, and heavily; 'The bus thundered down the road'.
(verb.) be the case that thunder is being heard; 'Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed'.
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Definition
(n.) The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
(n.) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
(n.) Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon.
(n.) An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation.
(n.) To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously.
(n.) Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance.
(n.) To utter violent denunciation.
(v. t.) To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation.
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Definition
n. the deep rumbling sound after a flash of lightning a thunderbolt: any loud noise: an alarming denunciation.—v.i. to make thunder: to sound as thunder.—v.t. to give out with noise and terror: to publish a denunciation.—ns. Thun′derbolt a bolt or shaft of lightning preceding a peal of thunder: anything sudden and irresistible: a daring or irresistible hero: ecclesiastical denunciation; Thun′der-clap a sudden peal of thunder: the report of an explosion of electricity in the clouds; Thun′der-cloud a cloud charged with electricity which generally produces lightning and thunder; Thun′derer; Thun′dering the report of a discharge of electricity in the clouds: thunder.—adj. unusually big tremendous.—adv. Thun′deringly.—adjs. Thun′derless without thunder; Thun′der-like (Shak.) like thunder as a loud noise; Thun′derous giving forth a sound like thunder awful.—adv. Thun′derously.—ns. Thun′der-peal a clap of thunder; Thun′der-plump a heavy fall of rain in a thunder-storm; Thun′der-shower a shower accompanied with thunder or a short heavy shower from a thunder-cloud; Thun′der-stone (Shak.) a stone fabulously supposed to be hurled by thunder and to do the damage of lightning a thunderbolt: (geol.) a belemnite so called from its dart-like shape; Thun′der-storm continued discharges of electricity from the clouds producing lightning and thunder and generally accompanied with heavy rain.—v.t. Thun′der-strike to strike as by lightning.—n. Thun′der-stroke (Shak.) a stroke or blast by lightning.—adjs. Thun′der-struck struck by lightning: astonished: struck dumb; Thun′dery indicative of thunder or attended by it.
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To dream of hearing thunder, foretells you will soon be threatened with reverses in your business. To be in a thunder shower, denotes trouble and grief are close to you. To hear the terrific peals of thunder, which make the earth quake, portends great loss and disappointment.
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Examples
- Moreover, he felt he was seen through, and Peter grew black as a thunder-cloud. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- What we call the rolling of thunder is really the reflection and re-reflection of the original thunder from cloud and cliff. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The vault above became obscured, lightning flashed from the heavy masses, followed instantaneously by crashing thunder; then the big rain fell. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Jo still looked like a thunder cloud, and nothing went well all day. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- A few seconds later a roar like thunder burst upon our ears, and as the smoke thinned away there was no sign left of the _Gloria Scott_. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The thunder of our two brave cannon announced the Fourth of July, at daylight, to all who were awake. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I heard the thunder of the sea on the sand-bank at the mouth of the bay. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- To obey, ma'am,' thundered Mr. Bumble. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Such was the awful sentence that thundered from his lips. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- When it thundered loudly, the ribald Aristarchus could ask him: Won't you do something of the sort, oh Son of Zeus? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For more than an hour his eloquence (assisted by his glorious voice) thundered through the sacred edifice. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It thundered at the town, and thundered at the cliffs, and brought the coast down, madly. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I ask you again,' thundered the doctor, 'are you, on your solemn oaths, able to identify that boy? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- When it thundered very loudly, he glanced towards Coketown, having it in his mind that some of the tall chimneys might be struck by lightning. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Before another word could be said by anybody, a thundering knock at the street door startled us all. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- At midnight a number of them came thundering at our door, demanding more rum, of which we took no notice. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He heard the thundering and surging out of doors, and it seemed to him as if his late angry mood were going about trying to get at him. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Their time is the day of vengeance; their signal, the word of the Lord of hosts, thundering with the voice of His excellency. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The thundering carriage-and-pair encountered were now likewise recalled, as well as that puzzling signal, the waved handkerchief. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Hark to the thundering in the chimney, and the surging noise! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He wound up this vehement declaration by looking round upon us with a most agreeable smile and suddenly thundering, Ha, ha, ha! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was the law of my fathers, said Rebecca; it was delivered in thunders and in storms upon the mountain of Sinai, in cloud and in fire. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- On either side of the peninsula the Atlantic in varying mood lies extended in summer sunshine, or from its shroud of mist thunders o n the black cliffs and their time-sculptured sandstones. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The carriage thunders past, but what do I see, or fancy I see, as it rushes by? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- By a thousand Thunders, you shall see me again! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Here roared no utterance of Rome's thunders, no blasting of the breath of her displeasure. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He was therefore especially gratified in August, 1881, at th e thunders of applause which greeted his appearance at the International Medical Congress in L ondon. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In the deepest calm their leaves are never quite hushed, and in high wind a flood rushes, a sea thunders above you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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