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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

... law revealed on this day was the lighting of the candlestick. After all the princes of the tribes had brought their gifts to the sanctuary, and God had bidden Moses to let them offer each his offering, one a day, throughout twelve days, Aaron, profoundly agitated, thought: "Woe is me! It seems as if, ...

— THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME III BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS - FROM THE EXODUS TO THE DEATH OF MOSES • BY LOUIS GINZBERG

... asked a' he wanted then as well as later," said Little Bel, honestly avowing the whole to her mother. "As soon as he put his hands on me the very heart in me said he was my man for a' my life. An' there's no shame in it that I can see. If a man may love that way in the lighting of an eye, why may not a girl do the same? There's not one kind o' heart i' the breast of a man an' another kind i' the breast of a woman, as ever I heard." In which Little Bel, in her innocence, was wiser than people wiser ...

— Between Whiles • Helen Hunt Jackson

... With the candles lighting up the interior of the room, the prisoners surveyed their surroundings. The room contained half a dozen hard chairs and as many bunks. There was a single table. That ...

— The Boy Allies with Uncle Sams Cruisers • Ensign Robert L. Drake

... was issuing orders, Tabitha flaxed blithely about the little kitchen, lighting the fire, hunting up cooking utensils, and beginning the process of making chocolate pie, leaving Gloriana to wrestle with the ...

— Tabitha's Vacation • Ruth Alberta Brown

... carry away in the memory some striking characteristic of French cathedrals, and no one can forget the exquisite tint of the building-stone here, a ruddy hue as of gold lighting up the dark, richly-sculptured mass without, nor the charming cluster of airy columns joining the Lady Chapel to the choir within, daintiest bit of architectural fancy. Whilst we were revelling in the contrast afforded by the intense glow of the stained glass and the pure white marble—the ...

— The Roof of France • Matilda Betham-Edwards

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