# lightning
## Anglais
### Étymologie

    (Date à préciser) Dérivé de lighten, avec le suffixe -ing.

### Nom commun

lightning \ˈlait.niŋ\ généralement indénombrable
* Foudre.
** The lightning was hot enough to melt the sand.
    La foudre était assez chaude pour faire fondre le sable.
** That tree was hit by lightning.
    Cet arbre a été frappé par la foudre.
** Auster and Aquilon with winged Steeds All ſweating, tilt about the watery heauens, With ſhiuering ſpeares enforcing thunderclaps, And from their ſhields ſtrike flames of lightening — (Chrispher Marloze, Tamburlaine the Great, partie part 1, Londres, 1592, 2e édition (OCLC 932920499))
** The rain at length ceased; and the lightnings, as they played along the black parapet of clouds, that lay piled in the east, shone with less dazzling fierceness, […] — (Daniel Pierce Thompson, The Green Mountain Boys, 1881, page 281)
* Éclair.
** Although we did not see the lightening, we did hear the thunder.
    Quoi que nous n’ayons pas vu l’éclair, nous avons entendu la foudre.
** Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are? — (King James Version, The Holy Bible, chapitre XXXVIII, Robert Barker, Londres, 1611 (OCLC 964384981))
** It was the thought of hot July and August days, when the clouds piled up like woolly mountains, and lightnings streaked the sky. — (E. L. Morris, The Child’s Eden, 1901, page 16.)
* (Sens figuré) Se dit de tout ce qui bouge très rapidement.
** Nobs, though, was lightning by comparison with the slow thinking beast and dodged his opponent's thrust with ease. Then he raced to the rear of the tremendous thing and seized it by the tail. — (Edgard Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot, chapitre V, 1918)

#### Synonymes

Éclair :
* flash of lightning
* lightning flash

#### Dérivés

* ball lightning
* greased lightning
* lightning bug
* lightning bolt
* lightning conductor
* lightning detector
* lightning fast
* lightning rod
* lightning round
* lightning strike
* sheet lightning
* upward lightning

#### Vocabulaire apparenté par le sens

* thunder

### Adjectif

lightning \ˈlait.niŋ\
* Furtivement.
* Qui bouge à la vitesse de l’éclair.
** The insurgents then began their lightning advance along the Euphrates in the Sunni heartland toward Baghdad. — (Nader Uskowi, Temperature Rising, page 69)

### Verbe

lightning \ˈlait.niŋ\ impersonnel, intransitif
* (Langage enfantin) Produire des éclairs.
** Or if it thundered and lightninged, Aunt Frances always dropped everything she might be doing and held Elizabeth Ann tightly in her arms until it was all over. — (Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understoof Betsy, 1916)
** The next day, though it is not only raining but thundering and lightninging as well, antiquing is seen by three-fourths of those present as a lesser evil than free play. — (Dan Greenburg, Chewsday: a sex novel, 1968)
** "Hey!" yelled Reggie, pulling her back. "Get in here! It's lightninging. I don't want a charcoal-broiled friend!" — (Tricia Springstubb, Eunice Gottlieb and the unwhitewashed truth bout life, 1987)
** I don’t know, Father, but believe me, it has been a horrible night — one that I’ll never forget. It thundered and lightninged, and I was very hungry. — (Carlo Collodi, Roberto Innocenti, The adventures of Pinocchio, 1988)

#### Notes

    Il s’agit d’un terme utilisé qui n’est pas d’un usage standard.
    Le verbe standard, rarement utilisé, pour « produire des éclairs » est lighten. Il ne s’utilise qu’a la forme impersonnelle.

### Prononciation

* \ˈlait.niŋ\