thunderbolt

«thunderbolt» in Mova's school dictionary: A flash of lightning together with a crash of thunder — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a thunderbolt, thunderbolts)

meaning for a pupil

1) A flash of lightning together with a crash of thunder. tree →

2) Something sudden and shocking: the news came like a thunderbolt. tree →

3) (myths) A bolt of lightning thrown as a weapon by a god, such as Zeus in Greek myths or Thor in Norse myths. tree →

sense in the lessons

Science: lightning is a giant spark of electricity; thunder is the sound it makes. Safety: in a storm stay indoors and away from tall trees. Myths: Zeus hurls thunderbolts. Stories: «like a thunderbolt» shows a big surprise.

examples

• A thunderbolt struck the old oak. tree →
• Zeus threw thunderbolts from Mount Olympus. tree →
• The news hit us like a thunderbolt. tree →
• Thor's hammer made thunder and lightning. tree →
• The thunderbolt lit up the whole sky. tree →
• Toad's arrest came like a thunderbolt to his friends. tree →
• The Caliph's commandment fell upon me like a thunderbolt. tree →

note

Compound: thunder + bolt. Real lightning is not a solid object; «bolt» is just a picture. Myth: lightning never strikes the same place twice — false; tall buildings are struck many times.

In the corpora

• Toad: «Me complain of that beautiful, that heavenly vision ... that swan, that sunbeam, that thunderbolt! ...

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «thunderbolt» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.