lightning rod

English

Noun

lightning rod (plural lightning rods)

1. A metallic conductor that is attached to a high point of a building and leads to the ground and protects the building from damage by lightning
2. (figuratively) A person or thing that is a target for negative reactions and distracts criticism from another target.

Synonyms

• lightning conductor (British)

Translations

metallic conductor that protects from lightning

• Armenian: շանթարգել (hy) (šant'argel)
• Czech: hromosvod (cs) m, bleskosvod (cs) m
• Dutch: bliksemafleider (nl) m, donderroede (nl) f
• Esperanto: fulmo vergo (eo)
• Finnish: ukkosenjohdatin (fi)
• French: paratonnerre (fr) m
• German: Blitzableiter (de) m
• Greek: αλεξικέραυνο (el) (aleksikéravno) n
• Italian: parafulmine (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lynavleder (no) m

  Nynorsk: lynavleiar (nn) m

• Polish: piorunochron (pl) m
• Portuguese: para-raios (pt) m
• Russian: громоотво́д (ru) (gromootvód) m
• Serbian: gromobran, munjobran, gromosvod
• Slovene: strelovod (sl) m
• Spanish: pararrayos (es) m
• Swedish: åskledare (sv) c

metaphorically: person or thing that distracts criticism from another target

• Czech: hromosvod (cs) m
• Finnish: ukkosenjohdatin (fi)

• Russian: стрелочник (ru) (streločnik) m, козёл отпущения (ru) (kozjól otpuščenija)

External links

• Lightning rod on Wikipedia.Wikipedia