Firewire vs. Thunderbolt

Firewirenoun

A high-speed digital link standard covered by the IEEE 1394-1995 standard.

Firewirenoun

A system of wires or tubes designed to detect fire and trigger automatic fire-extinguishers in an aircraft engine compartment for example.

Thunderboltnoun

A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder.

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(figuratively) An event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected.

Thunderboltnoun

Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.

Thunderboltnoun

(soccer) A very powerful shot.

Thunderboltnoun

(paleontology) A belemnite, or thunderstone.

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(heraldry) A charge in the form of two joined bundles with four rays of lightning emerging from them, resembling the thunderbolt of Jupiter.

Thunderboltnoun

A daring or irresistible hero.

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A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.

Thunderboltnoun

Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness.

Thunderboltnoun

Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.

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A belemnite, or thunderstone.

Thunderboltnoun

a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder

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a shocking surprise;

Thunderbolt

A thunderbolt or lightning bolt is a symbolic representation of lightning when accompanied by a loud thunderclap. In Indo-European mythology, the thunderbolt was identified with the 'Sky Father'; this association is also found in later Hellenic representations of Zeus and Vedic descriptions of the vajra wielded by the god Indra.