Word Finder - thunder

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The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.

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Thunder is preceded by lightning.

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A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.

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Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede.

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An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.

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The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.

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The spotlight.

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Shortly after I announced my pregnancy, he stole my thunder with his news of landing his dream job.

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To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; often used impersonally.

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It thundered continuously.

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To make a noise like thunder.

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The train thundered along the tracks.

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To talk with a loud, threatening voice.

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To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.

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"Get back to work at once!", he thundered.

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To produce something with incredible power

Lightning flashed around them and thunder rumbled.

Thunder clapped and echoed through the hills.

The room lit up with a bright flash of lightening, and thunder rattled the windowpane.

Lightening flashed in the east and thunder rumbled a posthumous threat.

The boom of thunder and a bright glare made her eyes open.

Thunder echoed in the distance and lightening flashed.

Thunder growled a deep rumbling warning.

But to the west of this, except in the Rocky Mountain region where storms are numerous, the frequency steadily diminishes, and along the Pacific coast there are large areas where thunder occurs only once or twice a year.

Immediately a clap of thunder made the room shudder.

Lightning flashed brilliantly and a clap of thunder followed.

There fol­lowed a rip of thunder.

Thunder rumbled in the distance and Cade's chin slumped to his chest.

Thunder had never bothered him, even as a child.

Thunder was rumbling in the distance as she grabbed her phone off the headstone and started back to Ed.

At times of storm the compressed air, as it rushes out, produces a sound as of thunder.

Had a great thunder storm here on Wednesday night.

Each boom of thunder was loud enough to rattle the window panes.

Thunder cracked overhead.  Rhyn had ignored the rain, accustomed to being miserable.  Hell was either broiling or freezing, and the Alps were just as cold.  The underworld's chilled rain didn't compare.

Another brilliant bolt of lightning ended in a deafening clap of thunder.

Then the sword bent towards the earth, the sky darkened, thunder pealed, lightning flashed, and the whole world was wasted by famine, bloodshed and pestilence.

Dusty's shout to Darian was lost in another burst of thunder.

The conspicuous maximum in 1901 and great drop in 1902 in Hungary are also shown by the statistics as to the number of days of thunder.

A sudden storm gave abundance of rain, while hail and thunder confounded their enemies, and enabled the Romans to gain an easy and complete victory.

According to Josephus they symbolized the lightning and thunder respectively.

The association of Yahweh with storm and fire is frequent in the Old Testament; the thunder is the voice of Yahweh, the lightning his arrows, the rainbow his bow.

In Ezekiel the throne of Yahweh is borne up on Cherubim, the noise of whose wings is like thunder.

Some attempts have been made to identify him as a kind of Donar or god of thunder.

The cloud and thunder and lightning effects are spoken of as very impres'Eve, and the scenery of the lake and its shores has been much extolled by travellers.

From the south also came the thunder of guns and no encouraging news from that quarter had as yet reached the prince's headquarters.

But it is not necessary to stand in such fear of the thunder of Christ's vicar, but rather to fear Christ Himself, for it is the Florentine's business, not Christ's, that is at issue."

We see lightning before we hear the thunder which spreads out from the flash, and the more distant the flash the longer the interval between the two.

The amount of precipitation is greater in the north-west and on the mountains, because in the one case the mountains of lower elevation are a less obstruction to the moisturebearing winds from the west, and in the other the mountains condense the moisture; the mountains which stand in isolated groups upon the plains are frequently in summer the focus of local thunder showers.

His subjects were ordered to worship him under the name of Zeus; he built a bridge of brass, over which he drove at full speed in his chariot to imitate thunder, the effect being heightened by dried skins and caldrons trailing behind, while torches were thrown into the air to represent lightning.

According to Frazer (Early History of the Kingship, 1905; see also Golden Bough, i., 1 9 00, p. 82), the early Greek kings, who were expected to produce rain for the benefit of the crops, were in the habit of imitating thunder and lightning in the character of Zeus.

From December to February violent thunder and hail storms are experienced.

The Canadian government did their best to facilitate the immigration, and allotted land to the Doukhobors in the provinces of Assiniboia near Yorktown and of Saskatchewan near Thunder Hill and Prince Albert.

The mountains also introduce controls over the local winds; diurnal warming in summer suffices to cause local ascending breezes which frequently become cloudy by the expansion of ascent, even to the point of forming local thunder showers which drift away as they grow and soon dissolve after leaving the parent mountain.

In Hesiod (Theogony, 264) they are the three sons of Uranus and Gaea - Brontes, Steropes and Arges, - storm-gods belonging to the family of the Titans, who furnished Zeus with thunder and lightning out of gratitude for his having released them from Tartarus.

The native designation of the highest peak is Mongo-ma-Loba, or the Mountain of Thunder, and the whole upper region is usually called Mongo-mo-Ndemi, or the Mountain of Greatness.

At the close of the dry season (end of February) cyclones from the N.E., usually accompanied by rain and thunder, burst over the land.

He appeared seated in his chariot surrounded by thunder and lightning; Semele was consumed by the flames and gave birth prematurely to a child, which was saved from the fire by a miraculous growth of ivy which sprang up round the palace of Cadmus.

We have no idea who the disciple may have been who thus seized upon the sadder elements of the teaching of Jesus; but we may well think of him as one of those who were living in Palestine in the dark and threatening years of internecine strife, when the Roman eagles were gathering round their prey, and the first thunder was muttering of the storm which was to leave Jerusalem a heap of stones.

All the tribes believe in a supreme being whose voice is the thunder.

Nollet (1700-1770) had successively suggested the identity of lightning and the electric spark, and of thunder and the snap of the spark.

Associated with the Sky are tablets to the sun and moon, the seven stars of the Great Bear, the five planets, the twenty-eight constellations, and all the stars of heaven; tablets to clouds, rain, wind and thunder being placed next to that of the moon.

Just as the emperor is kami, and provincial officers of rank, so also mountains, rivers, the sea, thunder, winds, and even animals like the tiger, wolf or fox, are all kami.7 The spirits of the dead also become kami, of varying character and position; some reside in the temples built in their honour; some hover near their tombs; but they are constantly active, mingling in the vast multitude of agencies which makes every event in the universe, in the language of Motowori (1730-1801), the act of the Kami.

Yet traces of a pre-deistic and animistic period survived here and there; for instance, in Arcadia we find the thunder itself called Zeus (ZEUs Kepavvos) in a Mantinean inscription, 2 and the stone near Gythium in Laconia on which Orestes sat and was cured of his madness, evidently a thunder-stone, was named itself Zeus Kainreoras, which must be interpreted as " Zeus that fell from heaven "; 3 we here observe that the personal God does not yet seem to have emerged from the divine thing or divine phenomenon.

The chief tributaries of the lake on the U.S. side are Thunder bay river, Au Sable river and Saginaw river.

Native silver as well as silver ores exist around Thunder Bay, native copper was formerly worked on Isle Royal, and rich copper mines are worked on the south shore, while nickel abounds in the country north of the lake.

Worn out with his evasions, she at last (1723) took the desperate step of writing to Stella or, according to another account, to Swift himself, demanding to know the nature of the connexion with him, and this terminated the melancholy history as with a clap of thunder.