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Lighting

noun

Having abundant light or illumination. Synonym: light. "As long as the lighting was good" Antonym: dark.

Apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film.

The craft of providing artificial light.

The act of setting something on fire. Synonyms: firing, ignition, inflammation, kindling.

Light

verb

(past & past part. lit or lighted; pres. part. lighting)

Make lighter or brighter. Synonyms: illume, illuminate, illumine, light up.

Begin to smoke. Synonyms: fire up, light up.

To come to rest, settle. Synonyms: alight, perch.

Cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat. Synonym: ignite. "Light a cigarette" Antonym: extinguish.

Fall to somebody by assignment or lot. Synonym: fall. "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims"

Alight from (a horse). Synonyms: dismount, get down, get off, unhorse.

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"Lighting" Quotes from Famous Books

... lighting up). Ah, Julia! I believe you. A splendid fine creature—every inch a woman. No ...

— The Philanderer • George Bernard Shaw

... are dismissing their audiences, and five minutes were required for Nevill to accomplish that operation; even then he had to avail himself of a stoppage of the traffic by a policeman. He bent his steps to the grill-room of the Grand, and enjoyed a chop and a small bottle of wine. Lighting a cigar, he sauntered slowly to Jermyn street, and as he reached his lodgings a man started ...

— In Friendship's Guise • Wm. Murray Graydon

... wood the horses' pace was slackened. The horsemen were probably lighting up the road with the intention of ...

— Michael Strogoff - or, The Courier of the Czar • Jules Verne

... boots at Epiphany Fair. If I only had known! But I'm quite sure I can learn to make them;" her eyes lighting with anticipation. "Oh, when will he be big enough ...

— A Little Girl in Old New York • Amanda Millie Douglas

... said he, refilling and lighting his pipe, "I must tell you something I learned to-day, a few moments before dinner, which appeared to me very strange. Listen attentively, and I am sure you will share ...

— Stories of Modern French Novels • Julian Hawthorne

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