What is the meaning of lighting?

noun

• Having abundant light or illumination.
  • usage: "they played as long as it was light"; "as long as the lighting was good"
  • synonyms: light
• Apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film.
• The craft of providing artificial light.
  • usage: "an interior decorator must understand lighting"
• The act of setting something on fire.
  • synonyms: ignition, firing, kindling, inflammation

verb

• Make lighter or brighter.
  • usage: "This lamp lightens the room a bit"
  • synonyms: light, illume, illumine, light up, illuminate
• Begin to smoke.
  • usage: "After the meal, some of the diners lit up"
  • synonyms: light up, fire up, light
• To come to rest, settle.
  • usage: "Misfortune lighted upon him"
  • synonyms: alight, light, perch
• Cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat.
  • usage: "Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter"; "Light a cigarette"
  • synonyms: ignite, light
• Fall to somebody by assignment or lot.
  • usage: "The task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims"
  • synonyms: fall, light
• Alight from (a horse. ).
  • synonyms: unhorse, dismount, light, get off, get down