What's the difference between leven and lightning?

Leven


Definition:

  • (n.) Lightning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Later, when Leven moved to another squat, in Maida Vale, London, he suggested they bring in a bass player and percussionist to form a band, and they started rehearsing "with mattresses around the walls to deaden the sound, but still annoying the neighbours".
  • (2) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Severe floods across the UK last year may be a sign of what is to come if climate change is not curtailed.
  • (3) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian "Sorry," he says.
  • (4) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Which may explain how, somehow, overnight, the cracks that shut the factory the day before have become less dangerous and the management has called in the workforce.
  • (5) The new book takes its title from a song by the late Jackie Leven , a singer and songwriter who was a friend of Rankin's.
  • (6) Leadenhall Building at 122 Leadenhall Street, otherwise know as the Cheesegrater, facing the Lloyds building Photograph: David Levene Since Lloyd's, Stirk thinks there has been an increase in the "homogeneity" of architecture.
  • (7) A two stage health promotion programme is in progress in the Vale of Leven in Dunbartonshire.
  • (8) Photograph: David Levene 10.19am BST Royal Mail shares surge - a recap OK, let's recap on this morning's events.
  • (9) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Curators: Institute of Architecture – Dorota Jedruch, Marta Karpinska, Dorota Lesniak-Rychlak, Michał Wisniewski A welcome respite from the barrage of information on display elsewhere, the Polish pavilion presents a stark marble tomb, looming in the centre of the bright white space like some gothic fantasy.
  • (10) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian However, other former Channel 4 executives are rallying to defend the broadcaster’s publicly owned status.
  • (11) The factories at Leven and Cowdenbeath have a full order book and could easily expand their workload given the demand for their product.
  • (12) Keith Levene has announced plans to revisit Commercial Zone, his final LP with Public Image Ltd , getting "[to] what the fourth album was supposed to be".
  • (13) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian A hundred years ago, Eyde had already grasped the gravity of the problem.
  • (14) The result was Doll By Doll, dominated by Leven, whom I described at the time as "a mixture of Van Morrison and a psychopath", but who could mix edgy, brooding rock songs, such as Butcher Boy, with stirring, lyrical Celtic soul, including the exquisite Main Travelled Roads.
  • (15) Photograph: David Levene "It'll be months, whatever way you look at it," he says.
  • (16) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian The French House is one of those places where you actually feel like you're alive.
  • (17) The classic successes by indirect methods which were achieved by Ladd and Leven in babies born in 1939 were to be followed by the first successful end-to-end anastomosis which was achieved in Ann Arbor, Michigan, by Cameron Haight.
  • (18) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian It is now nearly four months since he announced his decision to end 45 years in the hurly-burly and step down from his Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough seat .
  • (19) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian The signs of wealth are everywhere, from the luxury gated village of the Pun Hlaing Golf Estate to the towers around swimming pools of Star City , both projects of the Pun empire.
  • (20) Photograph: David Levene The Band Aid 30 musical collective plan to record the new version of the track on Saturday to be available for download on Monday morning.

Lightning


Definition:

  • (n.) A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder.
  • (n.) The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers.
  • (vb. n.) Lightening.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The territory’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying, has become a lightning rod for the protesters’ anger .
  • (2) Last week Isis bulldozed the ancient city of Nimrud , also near Mosul, which the militant group conquered in a lightning advance last summer.
  • (3) We went on holiday to Cyprus and the plane got hit by lightning.
  • (4) The subjective signs of the syndrome are floating 'moths', photopsias presenting as a 'lateral lightning', sudden appearance of a central macula (central positive scotoma).
  • (5) We are told the thunder and lightning made it impossible for the engineers to position the control room barge, thus delaying the operation.
  • (6) Financial Services Authority chief executive Hector Sants described bonuses as the "lightning rod" of the public's lack of trust in bankers.
  • (7) The literature relating to the neurology of lightning strike is briefly reviewed.
  • (8) One instance occurred while the victim was using the telephone; the other victim received a direct lightning strike to the head.
  • (9) These teams open up with five goals, three of which came at lightning speed.
  • (10) There are various reasons some musicians don't like Spotify, although the company is something of a lightning rod for criticism of all streaming services.
  • (11) Bruce, who believes Sessègnon could help to plug the gap left by striker Darren Bent, said: "Stéphane can play on the left, on the right, through the middle – he's lightning quick and he's a match-winner.
  • (12) Although uncommon, symptoms of lightning-like electric sensations spreading into both arms, down the dorsal spine, and into both legs on neck flexion following head and neck irradiation, causes great concern in both the patient and the physician.
  • (13) A variety of electrocardiographic changes have been documented previously in association with lightning injury; however, the changes in this patient have not previously been reported.
  • (14) He again complained of severe lightning pain after the successful spinal anesthesia with the same anesthetic solution.
  • (15) Jamie Vardy started to score the goals that his lightning speed of foot and monstrous effort promised he might.
  • (16) Cameron can't stab Nick in the back over AV and keep using him as an all-purpose lightning conductor."
  • (17) The importance of electrophysiological and CT scan examination in the diagnosis and etiology of abnormalities caused in the eye by lightning is emphasized.
  • (18) As well as many Assyrians, thousands of Iraqi Chaldeans have also fled to Lebanon since Isis took control of Mosul in a lightning offensive last summer.
  • (19) A case is described in which the patient had been struck by lightning, with involvement of one eye and the visual pathways.
  • (20) Emergency physicians and staff are usually the first to evaluate and manage victims of lightning strikes.