英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Thunder
(n.)
An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation.
Thunder
(n.)
To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a
discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as,
it thundered continuously.
Thunder
(n.)
Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some
continuance.
Thunder
(n.)
To utter violent denunciation.
Thunder
(v. t.)
To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to
publish, as a threat or denunciation.
Thunderbird
(n.)
An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala
gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow,
and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated
thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural
thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher.
Thunderbolt
(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.
Thunderbolt
(n.)
Something resembling lightning in suddenness and
effectiveness.
Thunderbolt
(n.)
Vehement threatening or censure; especially,
ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
Thunderbolt
(n.)
A belemnite, or thunderstone.
Thunderburst
(n.)
A burst of thunder.
Thunderclap
(n.)
A sharp burst of thunder; a sudden report of a
discharge of atmospheric electricity.
Thundercloud
(n.)
A cloud charged with electricity, and producing
lightning and thunder.
Thundered
(imp. & p. p.)
of Thunder
Thunderer
(n.)
One who thunders; -- used especially as a translation of
L. tonans, an epithet applied by the Romans to several of their gods,
esp. to Jupiter.
Thunderfish
(n.)
A large European loach (Misgurnus fossilis).
Thunderhead
(n.)
A rounded mass of cloud, with shining white edges; a
cumulus, -- often appearing before a thunderstorm.
Thundering
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Thunder
Thundering
(a.)
Emitting thunder.
Thundering
(a.)
Very great; -- often adverbially.