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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

... Mrs. Drabdump was lighting the kitchen fire. She did it very scientifically, as knowing the contrariety of coal and the anxiety of flaming sticks to end in smoke unless rigidly kept up to the mark. Science was a success as usual; and Mrs. Drabdump rose from her knees content, like a Parsee ...

— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill

... philosophically, carried his pipe with him—a huge meerschaum, clouded like a sunset on the Baltic. He filled it deliberately with tobacco, pressed it down with his finger and thumb, and leaning back in his easy chair after lighting it, began to blow such a cloud as the portly Burgomaster of Stockholm might have envied on a grand council night in the old Raadhus of ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

... hand and glided hurriedly through the passage until she reached a door, which she opened. By the light of a dying fire he could see it was her bedroom. Lighting a candle on the mantel, she looked eagerly in his face as he threw aside his muffler and opened his coat. It disclosed a spare, youthful figure, and a thin, weak face that a budding mustache only seemed to make still more immature. For an instant brother and sister ...

— Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... behind. Patches of jungle flashed by; other cities. And always the endless rows of blue-white lights. There was neither night nor day in the sealed-in world; only the artificial suns that never set. Continuous subjection to the ultra-violet and visible rays of the vast lighting system was necessary to the growth and reproduction of the plant life that was so essential ...

— The Copper-Clad World • Harl Vincent

... his tallow candles, when Murray, guessing from certain innuendoes and shrugs (for before us English they are not much afraid of shrugging the shoulders or inventing an occasional "Bah!") that he would have been to the full as pleased if he had been lighting his candles upon the return of Napoleon, asked him, "Mais pourquoi faites vous cela? I suppose you may do as you like?" "Comment donc!" replied the astonished Frenchman; "do as I like! If I did not light my candles with all diligence, I should be called upon to-morrow by the police to pay a forfeit ...

— Before and after Waterloo - Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802;1814;1814) • Edward Stanley

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