Found 3 items, similar to thunder.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: thunder
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: thunder
thunder
v 1: move fast, noisily, and heavily;
“The bus thundered down the
road”
2: utter words loudly and forcefully; "`Get out of here,' he
roared" [syn:
roar]
3: be the case that thunder is being heard;
“Whenever it
thunders, my dog crawls under the bed” [syn:
boom]
4: to make or produce a loud noise;
“The river thundered
below”;
“The engine roared as the driver pushed the car to
full throttle”
thunder
n 1: a deep prolonged loud noise [syn:
boom,
roar,
roaring]
2: a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along
the path of a bolt of lightning
3: street names for heroin [syn:
big H,
hell dust,
nose drops
,
smack]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Thunder
Thunder
\Thun"der\, n. [OE. [thorn]under, [thorn]onder,
[thorn]oner, AS. [thorn]unor; akin to [thorn]unian to
stretch, to thunder, D. donder thunder, G. donner, OHG.
donar, Icel. [thorn][=o]rr Thor, L. tonare to thunder,
tonitrus thunder, Gr. to`nos a stretching, straining, Skr.
tan to stretch. [root]52. See
Thin, and cf.
Astonish,
Detonate,
Intone,
Thursday,
Tone.]
1. The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report
of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
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2. The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt. [Obs.]
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The revenging gods
'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend.
--Shak.
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3. Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon.
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4. An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation.
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The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike
into the heart of princes. --Prescott.
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Thunder pumper. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The croaker (
Haploidontus grunniens).
(b) The American bittern or stake-driver.
Thunder rod, a lightning rod. [R.]
Thunder snake. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The chicken, or milk, snake.
(b) A small reddish ground snake (
Carphophis am[oe]na
syn.
Celuta am[oe]na) native to the Eastern United
States; -- called also
worm snake.
Thunder tube, a fulgurite. See
Fulgurite.
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Thunder
\Thun"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Thundered; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Thundering.] [AS. [thorn]unrian. See
Thunder, n.]
1. To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a
discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used
impersonally; as, it thundered continuously.
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Canst thou thunder with a voice like him? --Job xl.
9.
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2. Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some
continuance.
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His dreadful voice no more
Would thunder in my ears. --Milton.
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3. To utter violent denunciation.
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Thunder
\Thun"der\, v. t.
To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to
publish, as a threat or denunciation.
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Oracles severe
Were daily thundered in our general's ear. --Dryden.
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An archdeacon, as being a prelate, may thunder out an
ecclesiastical censure. --Ayliffe.
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