(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.
Whistler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.
(n.) The ring ousel.
(n.) The widgeon.
(n.) The golden-eye.
(n.) The golden plover and the gray plover.
(n.) The hoary, or northern, marmot (Arctomys pruinosus).
(n.) The whistlefish.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Reasoned criticism of Cook is fair enough, but he has a vastly inexperienced team at his disposal (and no matter what one may think of the absence of the Whistler, Cook can hardly be held responsible for the loss of Trott, Swann, Tremlett and Finn), so why not give him until the end of the Summer?"
(2) Gwen had set off for Paris in the autumn of 1898 and studied at the Academie Carmen, a newly opened school run by a one-time model of Whistler's who himself gave two lessons a week.
(3) This pious art lover could have a career in slapstick if she wants, for her comic destruction of a work of art bears comparison with Rowan Atkinson giving Whistler's Mother a badly drawn cartoon face in the film Bean .
(4) • snooc.ski , two-hour lesson £26 Book it: Peak Retreats has a week in a four-star self-catering apartment, based on five sharing, including Eurotunnel crossing, for £214pp Baseboarding, Whistler, Canada Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Bromley Sports Limited Given that snowboarding, which is essentially surfing on snow, was invented over 40 years ago, it’s surprising that it’s taken so long for someone to introduce front-lying bodyboarding to the slopes.
(5) • 0871 662 9521, untravelledromania.com Whistler, Canada Families travelling at Easter can stay at a hostel walking distance from the slopes in Whistler.
(6) "The Whistler's Largesse (see your 18th minute) would be a great title for an 19th-century Cornish smuggler novel," suggests Nicola Barr.
(7) When the attention-seeking Whistler sued for libel, the action landed Ruskin back in court.
(8) Under Whistler's influence, Gwen developed her technique - a mix of her intuitive and his scientific methods.
(9) Steve Whistler (@stevewhistler) Perhaps the #australiansforcoal campaign only had one KPI: 'Trend position'.
(10) missMM has suggested a slew around Logan Square and the West Loop: The Whistler ("a bar, gallery, record label, and venue") Scofflaw (a gin bar), Three Dots and A Dash (tiki!
(11) Whistler won, but was awarded risible damages of one farthing.
(12) While it does have paintings by American-born European artists such as Copley and Whistler, the only truly American work it owns is a minor, rarely displayed work by George Inness called The Delaware Water Gap that was transferred to it from Tate in 1956.
(13) We heard fiddlers and guitarists, banjo-pickers and penny whistlers.
(14) However England can't take advantage of the whistler's largesse.
(15) • She once blacked out during a training run in Whistler.
(16) Despite having been the prophet of his age, the best art critic this country has ever produced, the patron of the pre-Raphaelites and of Turner, his legacy has been reduced to one of a bearded reactionary who, in 1878, accused James Whistler of “flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face” when confronted with the American painter’s avant-garde nocturnes .
(17) Initially, Weston had been a leading exponent of pictorialism – a kind of arty, romanticised style of portraiture that took its cue from the Victorian painters like Whistler.
(18) The collection includes Pollock's Mural on Indian Red Ground, considered to be one of his most important works and estimated to be worth more than $250m, as well as important pieces by Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Whistler and Marcel Duchamp.
(19) Ukip's Nigel Farage and Cameron's Australian lobbyist and chief dog-whistler Lynton Crosby are driving the Tories ever further to the right.
(20) With the new sport of baseboarding, offered in Whistler for the first time this winter, riders lie on an aerodynamic board to descend soft snowy pistes with plenty of room to manoeuvre.