lighting

Meaning of lighting

verb
  1. To start (a fire).
    We lit the fire to get some heat.
  2. To set fire to; to set burning.
    She lit her last match.
  3. To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark.
    I used my torch to light the way home through the woods in the night.
  4. To become ignited; to take fire.
    This soggy match will not light.
  5. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
  6. To make (a bonus) available to be collected by hitting a target, and thus light up the feature light corresponding to that bonus to indicate its availability.
    Light the extra ball by amassing 500 million points in the wizard mode.
verb
  1. To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter
  2. To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
verb
  1. To find by chance.
    I lit upon a rare book in a second-hand bookseller's.
  2. To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice
  3. To alight; to land or come down.
    She fell out of the window but luckily lit on her feet.
noun
  1. The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.
  2. The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.
  3. The process of annealing metals.

Information about lighting

  • The plural form of lighting is: lightings.
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Hyphenation of lighting

light-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • lighting is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

lighting synonyms

Meaning light:

light

Meaning ignition:

ignition, firing, kindling, inflammation

Meaning :

set, conflagrate, ignite, kindle, illuminate, alight, land, find, illumination

lighting antonyms

Meaning :

extinguish, quench

Translation of lighting

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