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thunderstorm

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A thunderstorm , also known as an electrical storm , lightning storm , or thundershower , is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere , known as thunder . Thunderstorms occur in association with ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also thunder-storm , 1560s, from thunder (n.) + storm (n.).

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thunderstorm \Thun"der*storm`\, n. A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Around 3 p.m. the dark clouds of the thunderstorm rolled in. ▪ There was a spectacular thunderstorm that night. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But, as if to rip up the quiet, there was a magnificent thunderstorm . ▪ Hail was recorded ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning [syn: electrical storm , electric storm ]

Usage examples of thunderstorm.

In particular, I want to know how you learned to do aerobatics in a thunderstorm.

He got good at it fast, shooting back requested information to the road units, playing the computer keys like it was a barrelhouse piano, liaising with other Troops when it was necessary, as it was after a series of violent thunderstorms whipped through western PA one evening toward the end of June.

The blacklight matrix sizzled off with a fierce electric odor, like the air after a thunderstorm.

The tiny screams intensified, the Haidas clinging for dear life to the sides of their craft like balloonists caught in a thunderstorm.

Though, plainly, she had been horrendously brutalized and, the medical examiner would conclude, most probably raped, an overnight thunderstorm and the rushing creek had conspired to frustrate investigators in their search for clues.

To Icebones, the rumble of the deep water was a distinct noise under the frothy din of the surface world, like the far-off call of a thunderstorm, or the giant crack of a distant glacier calving an iceberg.

Weather reports came in, Luis wrote their contents on a chalkboard: low cloud cover, threatening thunderstorms across the area, hot and steamy along the ground.

The driving clouds of the gathering thunderstorm mingled there with masses of black and red smoke.

Joe Deets had predicted the problem halfway through the party given by the Meadows family in the main lounge of the Manse a week after Rolf Wintergarten had brought his bride into the community, some three years after his childless wife, Angela, had died of electrocution when a sudden southern thunderstorm had draped live wires across her Mustang.

On Friday evening the early thunderstorm turned into a steady misty rain that lasted well into dark, making halos around the commercial lights of Meadows Center and around the home lights of the Settlements and the corner streetlights.

Otherwise the town lay quiet in the sunlight, as if the Wolves charging at its walls were no more than a thunderstorm which would come and go regardless of what men did.

She loves to hear the baboons barking, to have the air washed clean by the afternoon thunderstorms.

The stone, as if it were something sentient, had called to the monk on that day when he had presented it to Elbryan and Symphony, and Avelyn, who had floated down the face of a cliff, who had walked on water and unleashed tremendous fireballs, who had held the power of a thunderstorm in his puny, mortal hands, would not discount any possibilities of its God-given power.

Thunderstorm said in surprise, settling down on a cushion in the sun with his wings on his back and his foreclaws thrust out before him like the Sphinx.

It was high summer in the mountains called the Hellers, and there should have been no storms except for the never-ending snow flurries on the far heights above the timberline, and the rare savage thunderstorms that swooped down across the valleys, bouncing from peak to peak and leaving flattened trees and sometimes fire in the path of their lightnings.