Crossword clues for thunderbird
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thunderbird \Thun"der*bird`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) An Australian insectivorous singing bird ( Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context mythology English) A mythological bird, often associated with stormy weather, especially in various indigenous North American mythologies. 2 An Australian insectivorous songbird ((taxlink Pachycephala pectoralis species noshow=1), formerly (taxlink Pachycephala gutturalis species noshow=1)), whose male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast.
WordNet
n. (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird
Wikipedia
The thunderbird is a legendary creature in certain North American indigenous peoples' history and culture. It is considered a supernatural being of power and strength. It is especially important, and frequently depicted, in the art, songs and oral histories of many Pacific Northwest Coast cultures, but is also found in various forms among some peoples of the American Southwest, East Coast of the United States, Great Lakes, and Great Plains.
Thunderbird or Thunderbirds may refer to:
Thunderbird (John Proudstar) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Thunderbird was briefly a member of the X-Men. An Apache, Thunderbird possesses superhuman athletic ability. He was a short time member of the "Second Genesis" group of X-Men gathered together in Giant-Size X-Men #1 as he died on their second mission.
The is a limited express train service operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) between and in Japan, using portions of the Tokaido Main Line, Kosei Line, Hokuriku Main Line, and Nanao Line.
Thunderbird is a term used in cryptozoology to describe large, bird-like creatures, generally identified with the Thunderbird of Native American tradition. Similar cryptids reported in the Old World are often called Rocs. Thunderbirds are regarded by a small number of researchers as having lizard features like the extinct pterosaurs such as Pteranodon. Reports of Thunderbird sightings go back centuries, and the fossil record does show that giant birds ( teratorns) with wingspans between were likely contemporary with early man. Today the creature is generally regarded as a myth.
This article deals with modern sightings (the last 200 years) of such a creature, reported as real, as opposed to mythological accounts, though believers in the phenomenon often use the Native American legends in attempts to support their claims.
Neal Shaara, also known as Thunderbird, is a Marvel Comics superhero, who was briefly a member of the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Leinil Francis Yu, he first appeared in X-Men vol. 2 #100 (May 2000).
An Indian pyrokinetic, he has no connection to the previous X-Men characters called Thunderbird. He is a vegan and was originally intended to be called Agni, after the Hindu god of fire.
He is the first Indian member of the X-Men.
Thunderbird is a supercomputer cluster at Sandia National Laboratories. The system was built by Dell, Inc.. It is a cluster of 4,480 dual- Xeon servers. It can do 60 teraflops and according to the TOP500 list, in November 2006 it was the sixth most powerful supercomputer in the world and has the lowest cost per teraflops. it is no longer in the top ten.
Thunderbird is an album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson. It was released on the Blue Note label in 2006.
Thunderbird is an album by American jazz drummer Louis Bellson featuring performances recorded in 1965 for the Impulse! label.
"Thunderbird" is a song by hard rock musical act Call Me No One. The band released the song on August 7, 2012 as second single of their debut album Last Parade via ILG.
Thunderbird is an album by saxophonist Willis Jackson which was recorded in 1962 and released on the Prestige label.
The English Electric Thunderbird was a British surface-to-air missile produced for the British Army. Thunderbird was primarily intended to attack higher altitude targets at ranges up to approximately 30 miles, providing wide-area air defence for the Army in the field. AA guns were still used for lower altitude threats. Thunderbird entered service in 1959 and underwent a major mid-life upgrade to Thunderbird 2 in 1966, before being slowly phased out by 1977. Ex-Army Thunderbird I's were also operated by the Royal Saudi Air Force after 1967.
Thunderbird had performance similar to other semi-portable missiles like the US MIM-23 Hawk and Soviet 2K11 Krug, although it pre-dates both of these systems and offered greater range. After its mid-life upgrades, which shared several components with the RAF's Bristol Bloodhound, Thunderbird featured a continuous-wave radar semi-active homing system that was highly resistant to Radar jamming and deception, and was able to track targets even at very low altitudes.
Thunderbird was the Army's only heavy anti-aircraft missile. As missile systems like Thunderbird made flight at medium and higher altitudes practically suicidal, nap-of-the-earth flying became the norm and even shorter-range, faster acting systems were needed. Thunderbird's role was taken over by the much smaller BAC Rapier as they became available.
Thunderbird is the name of the northernmost wooden roller coaster in the world, located at PowerPark in Alahärmä, Western Finland. The two Millennium Flyer trains operating it were manufactured by Great Coasters International (GCI). Its layout is identical to American Thunder at Six Flags St. Louis
Thunderbird was the first wooden roller coaster in Europe to be built by GCI. Approximately 1,000 cubic metres of wood, 750,000 bolts and 1.8 million nails were used for Thunderbird's construction. President of GCI, Clair Hain, Jr., commended the Finnish carpenters for their remarkable chainsaw skills. The track is one kilometre in length and reaches a speed of nearly 100 km/h.
Thunderbird is a steel roller coaster in the Thanksgiving section of Holiday World & Splashin' Safari. Designed by Bolliger & Mabillard, the ride opened in 2015 as the eighth Wing Coaster in the world and the fourth in the United States.
Thunderbird is the manufacturer's first launching coaster in sixteen years and the first B&M launch built in-house ( The Incredible Hulk Coaster at Islands of Adventure uses a launch system supplied by the park). The Wing Coaster reaches a speed of in 3.5 seconds and features the tallest vertical loop on a Wing Coaster. Thunderbird had its first test run on 8 March 2015 and opened to the public on the 24 April 2015.
Usage examples of "thunderbird".
The Sahara, the landmark, the Americana and the ominous Thunderbird -- a cluster of grey rectangles in the distance, rising out of the cactus.
Hinckley is now a spare whitewall tire on the Thunderbird of my dreams.
The two-lane road and its traffic wound on for a mile or so, flanked by rustic signs indicating the way to Pima Point, the Tusayan Museum, and widely scattered tourist lodges called Yavapai, Maswik, Thunderbird, and Kachina.
Shadow pulled down some books and sat in the window seat: In several minutes he had learned that thunderbirds were mythical gigantic birds who lived on mountaintops, who brought the lightning and who flapped their wings to make the thunder.
There were some tribes, he read, who believed that the thunderbirds had made the world.
He stood at last on the top of the spire, the great birds, the thunderbirds, circling him slowly, navigating the gusts of the storm with tiny flicks of their wings.
Then had come such mighty cracks and rumbles from the skies that he had seen the great black beating wings of the Thunderbirds, and the white fire from their eyes had sizzled to the ground, almost blinding him.
A car was parked well to one side - a black Thunderbird, he noted, as tie swept the Audi round to face back towards the driveway, and came to a halt directly in front of the house entrance.
Though angry at Mary Louise Schultz for dropping him, to resume dating suave Smoke who now drove a sexy red Thunderbird, Art Lutz continued to dream helplessly of her and to stare after her, at school, with such an expression of dopey longing, his own buddies hadn't the heart to laugh at him.
Originally, the Recon Marines were to move in close to the U Feng perimeter and serve as forward observers, first for the Hornets designated as Chickenhawk, then for the Intruders designated Thunderbird.
About the only break we got this time was an earwitness who claims he heard some noise, but he's a wino who was up to his eyebrows in Mogen David and Thunderbird.
The Maserati and the Bentley seemed to be tangled broadside on across the road, and the Thunderbird was flying through the air.
At the last moment (as end-time closed in on him) he changed his mind on a decisive issue and decided to drink the reds down with a connoisseur wine instead of Ripple or Thunderbird, so he set off on one last drive, over to Trader Joe's, which specialized in fine wines, and bought a bottle of 1971 Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon, which set him back almost thirty dollars--all he had.
The Gallo wine company noticed this and began marketing Thunderbird, a white port-citric acid mixture.
When the Thunderbirds performed in the old days, Huntertwould do a solo spot, and it was always the crowd pleaser.