English-German translations for lightning

• Blitz der
  Leider war schlechtes Wetter - schwarze Wolken, Regen, Blitze und Sturm -, und das Flugzeug begann zu schlingern. Unfortunately, the weather was dreadful - black clouds, rain, lightning, storms - and the plane began to toss about.
• Entladung die

Definition of lightning

• A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.which heats the air and typically causes thunder--
• A discharge of this kind
• Anything that moves very fast
• The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers
• Extremely fast or sudden; moving at the speed of lightning
• To produce lightning

Examples

• Although we did not see the lightning, we did hear the thunder
• The lightning was hot enough to melt the sand
• That tree was hit by lightning

Related words

• lightning-fast
• lightning rod
• lightning bug
• lightning conductor
• lightning detector
• lightning never strikes twice in the same place
• lightning arrester
• lightning fast
• lightning strike