雷
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Definitions
- 1. thunder
- 2. (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷[dì léi] land mine
- 3. (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound
Words Containing 雷
to rumble with thunder
mirroring others
radar (loanword)
dare not go one step beyond the prescribed limit
not overstepping the prescribed limits
all thunder but no rain (idiom)
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian scientist
to lay mines
minelayer (ship)
Bretton woods conference in 1944 of allied powers, regulating world exchange rates and setting up IMF and world bank
optical radar (lidar)
Klebsiella
Gustave Dore (1832-1883), French artist and sculptor
Gustav Stresemann (Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic)
António Guterres (1949-), secretary-general of the United Nations (2017-), prime minister of Portugal (1995-2002)
John Leighton Stuart (1876-1962), second-generation American missionary in China, first president of Yenching University and later United States ambassador to China
to be in a thundering rage (idiom)
Hamlet (name)
Harare, capital of Zimbabwe
Halley's Comet
Tuareg (nomadic people of the Sahara)
Tourette syndrome
land mine (CL:顆|颗[kē])
Canterbury
The Canterbury Tales, collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer 喬叟|乔叟[qiáo sǒu]
Tampere (Swedish Tammerfors), Finland's second city
Elvis Presley (1935-1977), US pop singer and film star
to be furious
lit. like thunder piercing the ear
Anchorage (city in Alaska)
(bird species of China) rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta)
Brest, westernmost town in France
Shimon Peres (1923-2016), Israel politician, prime minister in 1977, 1984-1986 and 1995-1996, president 2007-2014, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1994
Florentino Pérez (1947-), Spanish businessman and president of Real Madrid football club
Freyr (god in Norse mythology)
Frederick (name)
Fredericton, capital of New Brunswick, Canada
Zhang Tailei (1898-1927), founding member of Chinese communist party
Frazer (name)
Dresden, Germany
Dreyer (name)
Dreyfus (name)
Dreyfus affair 1894-1906, notorious political scandal in France case involving antisemitism and miscarriage of justice
muffled thunder
grenade
(coll.) to wonder secretly
Tolui (1193-1232), fourth son of Genghis Khan
minesweeper (computer game)
minesweeper
minesweeper
thunderous applause (idiom)
(military) to clear mines; mine clearance
to detect mines
mine detector (employee)
Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina
purex
Pressburg (Slovakia)
Preston, city in England
to stamp with fury; to fly into a rage
thunderclap
Charles Grey (1764-1845), prime minister of the United Kingdom 1830-34
(bird species of China) willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus)
nuclear land mine
Grey
Earl Grey tea
Gray's Anatomy (medical reference book)
Greymouth, town in New Zealand
naval mine
deep growling thunder
selfless model citizen, just like Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋[léi fēng]
floating mine
thunderclap
(of a P2P lending platform) to collapse
Trevor (name)
Teresa
transponder
Klebsiella pnenmoniae
Monterey
Sucre, constitutional capital of Bolivia
beret (loanword)
thunderbolt
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British conservative politician and novelist, prime minister 1868-1880
lightning arrester
lightning rod
Adelaide, capital of South Australia
Ray Romano (1957-), US actor and comedian
real (Brazilian currency) (loanword)
(Internet slang) shocking
Rex (name)
Tyrannosaurus rex
Lexus
Reykjavik, capital of Iceland
Lei Gong or Duke of Thunder, the God of Thunder in Chinese mythology
the God of Thunder strikes bean curd
the God of Thunder strikes bean curd, a bully picks the weakest person
minefield (lit. and fig.)
pass like thunder and move like the wind (idiom); swift and decisive reaction
Riesling (grape type)
lit. much thunder but little rain; fig. a lot of talk but little action
(slang) cop
also written 鐳射|镭射
Leishan county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南州|黔东南州[qián dōng nán zhōu], Guizhou
Leishan county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南州|黔东南州[qián dōng nán zhōu], Guizhou
Leifeng Pagoda, by West Lake until it was destroyed (also from Madam White Snake)
Leizhou, county-level city in Zhanjiang 湛江[zhàn jiāng], Guangdong
Leizhou Peninsula
Leizhou, county-level city in Zhanjiang 湛江[zhàn jiāng], Guangdong
Clark T. Randt Jr. (1945-), US ambassador to Beijing 2001-2009
Rennes
Lake Urmia, northwest Iran, a major salt lake
not shaken by thunder (idiom); the arrangements are unalterable
lightning strike
Regina (name)
thunderstorm
Lehman or Leymann (name)
Lehman Brothers, investment bank
Luilang, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Luilang, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Taiwan equivalent of 里根[lǐ gēn]
Leibo county in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture 涼山彞族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[liáng shān yí zú zì zhì zhōu], south Sichuan
Leibo county in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture 涼山彞族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[liáng shān yí zú zì zhì zhōu], south Sichuan
god of thunder (Chinese Leigong 雷公[léi gōng], Norse Thor 索爾|索尔[suǒ ěr], Greek Zeus 宙斯[zhòu sī] etc)
Quake (video game series)
Raytheon Company, US defense contractor
detonator
thunder
lit. loud thunder, but only tiny drops of rain (idiom)
Raymond (name)
reggae (loanword)
Renault (French car company)
Renoir (name)
sound of thunder
radar antenna
Lei Feng (1940-1962), made into a model of altruism and dedication to the Party by propaganda from 1963 onwards
Ciudad Real
thundershower
thunderstorm
thunder and lightning
brontometer
sound of thunder
reggae (loanword)
capercaillie (Lagopus, several species)
thunder rolls
apatosaurus
thunderbolt
(George) Wehrfritz (Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek)
to be thundering
baited trap
sudden clap of thunder
torpedo
torpedo boat
lit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells
thunderous snoring