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Lighting

noun

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

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"

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

... puzzling where or how they were to go. One after another of them came up, looked down through the hole, and drew back. Curdie thought if he let Lina down, perhaps that would suggest something; possibly they did not see the opening on the other side. He did so, and Lina stood lighting up the entrance of the passage ...

— The Princess and the Curdie • George MacDonald

... little only after attaining a distant apartment and lighting a lamp. Here he remained a long time seated and buried in thought; various expressions of fear, anger, and even raillery flitted ...

— The Amulet • Hendrik Conscience

... plan," said Paul. "In a great city like New York there must be a great many things to do which I can't do here. I don't feel strong enough to work on a farm. Besides, I don't like it. O, it must be a fine thing to live in a great city. Then too," pursued Paul, his face lighting up with the hopeful confidence of youth, "I may become rich. If I do, Aunt Lucy, I will build a fine house, and you shall ...

— Paul Prescott's Charge • Horatio Alger

... to be rather shorter than Zachary Heigh wished. His candle stub, set on a crate, was burning very low and he had only a few more moments in which—that night at any rate—to decide where he would hide the lighting end of the fuse. Just before the candle went out, Zachary's fuse coil reached a group of molasses barrels, and here the young man decided that the fuse, when the time came, would be hidden and lit. He made a mark ...

— Mr. Wicker's Window • Carley Dawson

... neither my father nor myself were sufficiently skilled in mechanics to understand whence came the power to operate the ship, or to maintain the soft beautiful lights that answered the same purpose of our present methods of lighting the streets of our cities, our houses ...

— The Smoky God • Willis George Emerson

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