"lightning strike" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: lightning strikes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} lightning strike (plural lightning strikes)
  1. A lightning bolt, stroke of lightning, one of the events during an electrical storm when lightning strikes (an object on) the ground or an aircraft in flight. Translations (event during an electrical storm): صَاعِقَة (ṣāʕiqa) [feminine] (Arabic), blikseminslag [masculine] (Dutch), κεραυνός (keravnós) (Greek), χτύπημα κεραυνού (chtýpima keravnoú) (Greek), いなずま (Japanese), lynnedslag [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), lynnedslag [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), līeġetsliht [masculine] (Old English), lovitură de trăsnet [feminine] (Romanian), blixtnedslag [neuter] (Swedish), ฟ้าผ่า (fáa-pàa) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-lightning_strike-en-noun-uuKzX8vc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 73 27 Disambiguation of 'event during an electrical storm': 92 8
  2. (British) A (sometimes unofficial) strike by workers with little or no warning. Tags: British
    Sense id: en-lightning_strike-en-noun-1whWmZIu Categories (other): British English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms (sense 1): lightning never strikes twice in the same place Related terms (sense 2): wildcat strike
Disambiguation of 'sense 1': 0 0 Disambiguation of 'sense 2': 0 0

Inflected forms

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