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.

Extremely fast or sudden; moving (as if) at the speed of lightning.

(impersonal, childish or nonstandard, intransitive) To produce lightning.

(archaic) plural of lightning

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lightning

Illegally distilled whiskey.

A relatively rare form of cloud-to-ground lightning which appears to break up into a string of short, bright sections, and lasts longer than the usual discharge channel.

plural of lightning rod

Intracloud lightning; lightning which occurs within a cloud, resulting in the discharge of electricity between regions of the cloud. (Often, but not always, this takes the form of sheet lightning.)

(meteorology) A system that displays a map of the position of recorded or real-time lightning discharges relative to the user or other objects.