lightning vs lightening
Definitions
noun
- 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
- abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
Examples
But the demands of success hit them like a bolt of lightning.
There was thunder too and lightning and in places rain.
They shoot up from the tops of thunderstorms about the same moment lightning discharges within the storm cloud.
Definitions
noun
- changing to a lighter color
- descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped
Examples
A reaction induced on the laboratory bench may, like yeast in inert dough, leaven the whole of mankind, lightening and lifting it to heights undreamed of by its ancestors.
We live in Georgia where it gets unreasonably hot in the summers....need less to say my story involves, lightening, a burned out transformer, an air conditioner crame and 98 degree heat.
And a most enlightening experience it is.
