Difference between thunder and set
Definitions
verb
- move fast, noisily, and heavily
- utter words loudly and forcefully
- be the case that thunder is being heard
- to make or produce a loud noise
noun
- a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning
- street names for heroin
- a deep prolonged loud noise
Examples
This ought to have been fine - if Phaethon had not been like a rock-star's child with a new red Ferrari, scorching off the track, shrivelling crops, turning forest to desert, doubtless melting ice-caps if the Greeks had known about ice-caps, and only stopping when Zeus called a halt with a well-aimed world-saving thunderbolt.
The Chorus also recalls how Bacchus' mother, a mortal woman, was killed after she was tragically struck by Zeus' thunderbolt.
The forecasts have been asking us to watch out for thunderclouds and thundershowers for a long while now.
Definitions
noun
- evil Egyptian god with the head of a beast that has high square ears and a long snout; brother and murderer of Osiris
Examples
WorldCom promises not to impose a minimum call charge and no set up or monthly rental fee.
Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees.
My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
