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Definition: Heat Lightning |
Heat LightningNoun1. Bright flashes of light near the horizon without thunder (especially on hot evenings); usually attributed to distant lightning that is reflected by clouds. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Geography | Lightning flash at a distance, which may be observed as a short illumination of the sky or of a cloud, close to the horizon. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Heat Lightning (1934) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
heat lightning | 34 |
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| Language | Translations for "heat lightning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | святкане без гръм. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | varmelyn, kornmod (summer lightning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | weerlicht (sheet lightning, summer lightning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | elosalama. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | éclair de chaleur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wetterleuchten (lighten, sheet lightning, summer lightning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αστραπή θερμότητας, αστραπή (flash, flash of lightning, lightning, lightning flash, summer lightning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hõvillámlás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | lampo di calore, lampeggiamento (blinking, summer lightning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eathay ightninglay relâmpago de calor, lufada de calor (summer lightning), baforada (bad breath, bravado, long for, puff of smoke, summer lightning, whiff). (various references) зарница (heat lighting, heat-lightning, sheet lightning, summer lighting, summer lightning). (various references) munja (levin, lightning, thunderbolt). (various references) relampagueo (summer lightning), relámpago de calor. (various references) belysningsblixt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-h-h-i-i-l-n-n-t-t" | |
-2 letters: nightingale. | |
-3 letters: gantleting, lightening, tightening. | |
-4 letters: alighting, entailing, entitling, inletting, lightning. | |
-5 letters: agenting, aliening, aligning, angeling, atheling, gantline, gelating, gentling, gleaning, glinting, gnathite, hightail, highting, inhaling, latening, legating, ligating, lighting, litigant, litigate, naething, negating, neighing, nettling, tainting, tangling, tingeing, tingling. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-h-h-i-i-l-n-n-t-t" | |
+5 letters: phytohemagglutinin. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 61 74 4C 69 67 68 74 6E 69 6E 67 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100001 01110100 00100000 01001100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e a t   L i g h t n i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0061 0074 004C 0069 0067 0068 0074 006E 0069 006E 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427167862467573748680758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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