Lightening vs. Lightning
Difference Between Lightening and Lightning
Lightening➦
a drop in the level of the uterus during the last weeks of pregnancy as the head of the fetus engages in the pelvis.
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Lightning➦
Lightning is a naturally occurring electrostatic discharge during which two electrically charged regions, both in the atmosphere or with one on the ground, temporarily equalize themselves, causing the instantaneous release of as much as one gigajoule of energy. This discharge may produce a wide range of electromagnetic radiation, from very hot plasma created by the rapid movement of electrons, to brilliant flashes of visible light in the form of black-body radiation.
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Lightening➦
To make light or lighter; illuminate or brighten.
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Lightning➦
An abrupt, discontinuous natural electric discharge in the atmosphere.
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Lightening➦
To make (a color) lighter.
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Lightning➦
The visible flash of light accompanying such a discharge.
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Lightening➦
(Archaic) To enlighten.
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Lightning➦
(Informal) A sudden, usually improbable stroke of fortune.
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Lightening➦
To become lighter; brighten.
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Lightning➦
To discharge a flash of lightning.
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Lightening➦
To be luminous; shine.
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Lightning➦
Moving or occurring with remarkable speed or suddenness.
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Lightening➦
To give off flashes of lightning.
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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.
Although we did not see the lightning, we did hear the thunder.
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Lightening➦
To make less heavy
I lightened my backpack by removing a large textbook.
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Lightning➦
A discharge of this kind.
The lightning was hot enough to melt the sand.
That tree was hit by lightning.
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Lightening➦
To lessen the severity or oppressiveness of
lighten the workload.
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Lightning➦
(figuratively) Anything that moves very fast.
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Lightening➦
To make less worried or more cheerful
lighten the mood.
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Lightning➦
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Lightening➦
To become less in weight.
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Lightning➦
Extremely fast or sudden; moving (as if) at the speed of lightning.
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Lightening➦
To become less oppressive, troublesome, or severe.
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Lightning➦
To produce lightning.
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Lightening➦
To become cheerful
The mood lightened when the party started.
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Lightning➦
A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder.
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Lightening➦
The act or result of making something light or lighter.
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Lightning➦
The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers.
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Lightening➦
(medicine) The sensation caused by the descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity before the onset of labour
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Lightning➦
Lightening.
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Lightening➦
(nautical) The removal of cargo (especially crude oil) from a vessel in order to reduce its draft
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Lightning➦
abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
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Lightening➦
The process of changing to a lighter color.
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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
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Lightening➦
descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped
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Lightening➦
changing to a lighter color
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