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"
- To come to rest, settle.
- usage: "Misfortune lighted upon him"
- Cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat.
- usage: "Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter"; "Light a cigarette"
- Fall to somebody by assignment or lot.
- usage: "The task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims"
- Alight from (a horse. ).
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