What's the difference between belemnite and thunderbolt?

Belemnite


Definition:

  • (n.) A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Start your exploring at Bearreraig Bay, where, if you are lucky, you may find belemnites, ammonites and bivalves.
  • (2) Six Holstein cows in mid-lactation were placed on a diet naturally low in 13C (-25.0% vs Pee Dee belemnite [PDB] an international carbon isotope standard), based on alfalfa-barley, and six others were placed on a diet naturally enriched in 13C (-11.5% vs PDB), based on corn.

Thunderbolt


Definition:

  • (n.) A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.
  • (n.) Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness.
  • (n.) Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
  • (n.) A belemnite, or thunderstone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along But Swartz's death came like a thunderbolt in cyberspace, because this insanely talented, idealistic, complex, diminutive lad was a poster boy for everything that we value about the networked world.
  • (2) There was nothing Reddy could do about super-sub Kwame Yeboah’s 89th minute thunderbolt , which keeps Brisbane at the top of the table.
  • (3) It has a taste so sweet that one is never enough and a kick as hard as a Roberto Carlos thunderbolt.
  • (4) TL: Tony leaped out of his P-47 Thunderbolt feeling so great about being alive.
  • (5) During the 17 years preceding March 1985, 140 patients sustained lightning injuries caused by 44 thunderbolts.
  • (6) 1.43pm BST Marin Cilic remains one of the great nearly men of men's tennis, a former top-10 contender, complete with a thunderbolt serve and a powerful net game.
  • (7) Faster Flash storage - up to 60% faster; wireless 802.11ac; Thunderbolt 2 connector.
  • (8) Less reliable predictions from analysts and the supply chain have claimed a cover with built in-keyboard is in the works – hence the invite line about 'we've got it covered' – along with a new Thunderbolt external screen.
  • (9) Samir Nasri puts Man City in the lead with an old-fashioned thunderbolt.
  • (10) Murray saved break point with a stunning cross-court winner in the sixth game of the fourth set, held, and then served out the match to love with an away-swinging thunderbolt down the T. “The way I feel today compared with how I felt after losing in four sets last year [to Roger Federer in the quarter-finals], I could barely move at the end of the match because I was so sore and stiff.
  • (11) Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe review Read more The case has sparked huge controversy.
  • (12) Kenny said the tapes, disclosed by the Irish Independent this week, were a "thunderbolt", adding that they showed "the contempt and the arrogance and the insolence" of senior people in the bank towards everyone.
  • (13) Describing the revelations as a "thunderbolt", the prime minister said: "This has damaged our reputation."
  • (14) "I thought: 'Here were go again' but this time he kept it down and it was a thunderbolt.
  • (15) Radja Nainggolan’s 30-yard thunderbolt felt as though it might be the prompt for a rout.
  • (16) A god of absence, of null, of nothingness – a god with no specific given name: somehow this seems more frightening than all the angry thunderbolt-throwers and purveyors of fire-and-brimstone put together.
  • (17) Poverty is still shot out indiscriminately but deliberately, like thunderbolts from the palm of Thor.
  • (18) Bale put the icing on the cake with a thunderbolt from outside the penalty area on the left that went in off the far post.
  • (19) "These tapes from Anglo are actually a thunderbolt, but they shine a light on a very dark period of Ireland's recent past that we want to get away from."
  • (20) Out of a clear blue English sky came a thunderbolt to eclipse anything the Rugby World Cup has ever seen.

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