Dictionary entry

Lightning rod

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

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Definition

lightning / 'laÇtnÇŋ / n [U] လွ်ပ္စီးလက္ျခင္း။ လွ်ပ္စီး။ be struck by lightning မိုးႀကိဳးပစ္ခံရသည္။ ❍ forked / sheet lightning. adj လွ်ပ္တစ္ျပက္။ ႐ုတ္တရက္။ move at / with lightning speed ❍ Police made a lightning raid on the house. ❏ lightning conductor ( Brit ) ( US lightning rod ) n မိုးႀကိဳးလႊဲ။ ❏ lightning never strikes (in the same place) twice [ IDM ] ( saying ) မျဖစ္စဖူး အျဖစ္ထူးမ်ားသည္ ႏွစ္ႀကိမ္ျဖစ္႐ိုး မရိွ။ ❏ lightning strike n လွ်ပ္တစ္ျပက္ သပိတ္ေမွာက္ျခင္း။ They called a lightning strike to protest about the dismissal of a workmate. ❏ like (greased) lightning [ IDM ] အလြန္ လ်င္ျမန္စြာ။

Examples

  1. She lay awake
  2. listening to the thunder and lightning.
  3. [a flash of lightning] : A flash of lightning lit up the sky.
  4. [be struck by lightning] : Bob was struck by lightning while playing golf.