THUNDER EGG

Meaning of THUNDER EGG in English

Geol.

a globular concretion of opal, agate, or chalcedony weathered out of tuff or basalt. Cf. geode .

[ 1940-45 ]

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THUNDER EGG — noun Date: 1941 chalcedony in rounded concretionary nodules
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
THUNDER EGG — noun : chalcedony in rounded concretionary nodules
Webster's New International English Dictionary
THUNDER EGG — Date: 1941 : chalcedony in rounded concretionary nodules [ thunder egg: 1 nodule, 2 cutaway ]
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
THUNDER EGG — Function: noun Date: 1941 : chalcedony in rounded concretionary nodules thunder egg: 1 nodule, 2 cutaway
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
THUNDER EGG — [thunder egg] n (1941): chalcedony in rounded concretionary nodules
Merriam-Webster English vocab
THUNDER — I. ˈthəndə(r) noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English thoner, thonder, thunder, from Old English thunor; akin to Old Saxon …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
EGG — I. ˈeg, ˈāg transitive verb ( -ed/-ing/-s ) Etymology: Middle English eggen, from Old Norse eggja, from egg edge of …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
THUNDER — — thunderer , n. — thunderless , adj. /thun"deuhr/ , n. 1. a loud, explosive, resounding noise produced by the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
EGG — egg 1 — eggless , adj. — eggy , adj. /eg/ , n. 1. the roundish reproductive body produced by …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
THUNDER — I. ˈthən-dər noun Etymology: Middle English thoner, thunder, from Old English thunor; akin to Old High German thonar thunder, Latin …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
EGG — I. ˈeg, ˈāg transitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse eggja; akin to Old English ecg edge — more …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
THUNDER — noun to utter violent denunciation. 2. thunder ·noun any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon. 3. thunder ·noun the …
Webster English vocab
THUNDER — [thun.der] n [ME thoner, thunder, fr. OE thunor; akin to OHG thonar thunder, L tonare to thunder] (bef. 12c) 1: …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
EGG — [egg] vt [ME, fr. ON eggja; akin to OE ecg edge--more at edge] (13c): to incite to action--usu. used with …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
THUNDER — sound caused by a lightning discharge. The discharge heats and expands the air around it and forms a compression wave …
Britannica English vocabulary
EGG
Britannica English vocabulary
THUNDER — thunder BrE AmE ˈθʌnd ə AmE \ - ə r ▷ thunder|ed d ▷ thundering/ly ˈθʌnd‿ ə r ɪŋ /li …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
EGG — egg BrE AmE eɡ ▷ egged eɡd ▷ egging ˈeɡ ɪŋ ▷ eggs eɡz ▶ ˌ egg and ˈ spoon …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
THUNDER — / ˈθʌndə(r); NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun [ U ] 1. the loud noise that you hear after …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
EGG — / eg; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ C ] a small oval object with a thin …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
THUNDER — I. thun ‧ der 1 /ˈθʌndə $ -ər/ BrE AmE noun [ Language: Old English ; Origin: thunor ] 1 …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
EGG — I. egg 1 S1 W2 /eɡ/ BrE AmE noun [ Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: Old Norse ] 1 . BIRD …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
THUNDER — n. & v. --n. 1 a loud rumbling or crashing noise heard after a lightning flash and due to the …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
EGG — n. 1 a the spheroidal reproductive body produced by females of animals such as birds, reptiles, fish, etc., enclosed in …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
THUNDER — n. & v. n. 1 a loud rumbling or crashing noise heard after a lightning flash and due to the …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
EGG — n. 1 a the spheroidal reproductive body produced by females of animals such as birds, reptiles, fish, etc., enclosed in …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
THUNDER — n. & v. --n. 1. a loud rumbling or crashing noise heard after a lightning flash and due to the …
Oxford English vocab
EGG — 1. n.1 a the spheroidal reproductive body produced by females of animals such as birds, reptiles, fish, etc., enclosed in …
Oxford English vocab
THUNDER — ( thunders, thundering, thundered) 1. Thunder is the loud noise that you hear from the sky after a flash of …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
EGG — ( eggs, egging, egged) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. An egg …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
THUNDER — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a face like thunder (= a very angry expression ) ▪ The boss had …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
EGG — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bird lays its eggs ▪ The bird lays a single egg on the …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
THUNDER — [verb], [noun] [U] - (to make a noise like) the sudden loud noise which comes after a flash of lightning …
Cambridge English vocab
EGG — (FOOD) [noun] - the oval or rounded object with a hard shell which is produced by female birds, esp. chickens, …
Cambridge English vocab
THUNDER
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
THUNDER — See: BLOOD AND THUNDER, STEAL ONE'S THUNDER.
Slang English vocab
EGG — See: BAD EGG, GOOD EGG, KILL THE GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGG, LAY AN EGG, PUT ALL ONE'S EGGS …
Slang English vocab
THUNDER — I. noun ADJECTIVE ▪ loud ▪ The ~ was getting louder and louder. ▪ rolling , rumbling ▪ distant ▪ …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
EGG — noun 1 of birds/as food ADJECTIVE ▪ fresh ▪ bad , rotten ▪ free-range , organic ▪ chicken , duck …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
THUNDER — n. 25B6; noun thunder and lightning : THUNDERCLAP, roll/rumble of thunder, crack/crash of thunder; poetic/literary thunderbolt. the ceaseless thunder of …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
THUNDER — See: BLOOD AND THUNDER, STEAL ONE'S THUNDER.
Словарь английских идиом
EGG — See: BAD EGG, GOOD EGG, KILL THE GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGG, LAY AN EGG, PUT ALL ONE'S EGGS …
Словарь английских идиом
THUNDER — [Native American] Thunder is generally regarded as a natural manifestation of power. Thunderer is the personification of the Thunder spirit. …
Encyclopedia Mythica English vocab
THUNDER — is hardly ever heard in Palestine form the middle of April to the middle of September; hence it was selected …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
THUNDER — noun BAD : I heard a terribly loud noise, like a thunder. GOOD : I heard a terribly loud noise, …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
THUNDER — 1. сущ. 1) гром clap, peal, roll of thunder ≈ удар, раскат грома a deafening clap of thunder ≈ оглушительный …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
EGG — I сущ. 1) яйцо to boil eggs ≈ варить яйца to beat eggs ≈ взбивать яйца to candle eggs ≈ …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
THUNDER — thunder.ogg 1. ʹθʌndə n 1. 1> гром faint loud thunder - слабые сильные раскаты грома crash /clap/ of thunder - …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
EGG — egg.ogg _I 1. eg n 1. яйцо goose's hen's eggs - гусиные куриные яйца hard-boiled egg - яйцо вкрутую, крутое …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
EGG — I egg сущ.1) яйцо to boil eggs — варить яйца beat eggs — амер. взбивать яйца candle eggs — проверять …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
THUNDER — 1. ʹθʌndə n 1. 1> гром faint loud thunder - слабые сильные раскаты грома crash /clap/ of thunder - удар …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
EGG — _I 1. eg n 1. яйцо goose's hen's eggs - гусиные куриные яйца hard-boiled egg - яйцо вкрутую, крутое яйцо …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
THUNDER — 1. сущ. 1) гром clap, peal, roll of thunder — удар, раскат грома a deafening clap of thunder — оглушительный …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
EGG — I eɡ сущ. 1) яйцо to boil eggs — варить яйца beat eggs — амер. взбивать яйца candle eggs — …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
THUNDER — 1. сущ. 1) гром clap, peal, roll of thunder — удар, раскат грома a deafening clap of thunder — оглушительный раскат грома thunder booms, …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
EGG — I [ў±] egg.wav сущ. 1) яйцо to boil eggs — варить яйца beat eggs — амер. взбивать яйца candle eggs — проверять свежесть яиц на …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
EGG — 1) яйцо; икринка; pl яйца; икра 2) яйцеклетка • to cover eggs; to sit on eggs — сидеть на яйцах, высиживать яйца - activated …
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
EGG — 1) яйцо; икринка; pl яйца; икра 2) яйцеклетка • to cover eggs; to sit on eggs — сидеть на яйцах, …
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
THUNDER — 1. _n. 1> гром 2> грохот, шум 3> _pl. резкое осуждение, угрозы (обыкн. со стороны газет, официальных лиц и т. …
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
EGG — _I _n. 1> яйцо; - soft-boiled egg - lightly boiled egg - hard-boiled egg - ham and eggs 2> _воен. …
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
EGG — I n. 1. яйцо; - soft-boiled egg - lightly boiled egg - hard-boiled egg - ham and eggs 2. воен. …
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
EGG — _I eg _n. 1> яйцо; soft (-boiled) egg, lightly boiled egg яйцо всмятку; hard-boiled egg крутое яйцо; ham and eggs …
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера
THUNDER — 1) гром 2) отдаленная гроза - thunder bolt - thunder shower - thunder storm
Англо-Русский морской словарь
EGG
Новый Англо-Русский словарь современной разговорной лексики - Глазунов

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