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lightning
 
Noun lightning has 2 senses
  1. lightning - abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
    --1 is a kind of     atmospheric electricity
    --1 has particulars:
     forked lightning, chain lightning; thunderbolt, bolt, bolt of lightning
  2. lightning - the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more
    --2 is a kind of     flash
    --2 has particulars: heat lightning; sheet lighting
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