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How to pronounce “lightning”
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Pronunciation guide for lightning
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of lightning with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The History of Flash Photography
used to describe flash was the phenomenon of lightning.
- Definition summary
- 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.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce lightning
The History of Flash Photography
used to describe flash was the phenomenon of lightning.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “lightning”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- 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.
- A discharge of this kind.
- (figuratively) Anything that moves very fast.
- (archaic, slang) Gin.
- Obsolete form of lightening.[1]
- [Adjective]
- Extremely fast or sudden; moving (as if) at the speed of lightning.
- [Verb]
- (impersonal, childish or nonstandard, intransitive) To produce lightning.
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