From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
lighting
n 1: having abundant light or illumination; "they played as long
as it was light"; "as long as the lighting was good"
[syn: light] [ant: dark]
2: apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the
stage or a film
3: the craft of providing artificial light; "an interior
decorator must understand lighting"
4: the act of setting on fire or catching fire [syn:
ignition, firing, kindling, inflammation]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Light \Light\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lighted (l[imac]t"[e^]d) or
Lit (l[i^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Lighting.] [AS. l[=y]htan,
l[imac]htan, to shine. [root]122. See Light, n.]
1. To set fire to; to cause to burn; to set burning; to
ignite; to kindle; as, to light a candle or lamp; to light
the gas; -- sometimes with up.
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If a thousand candles be all lighted from one.
--Hakewill.
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And the largest lamp is lit. --Macaulay.
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Absence might cure it, or a second mistress
Light up another flame, and put out this. --Addison.
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2. To give light to; to illuminate; to fill with light; to
spread over with light; -- often with up.
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Ah, hopeless, lasting flames! like those that burn
To light the dead. --Pope.
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One hundred years ago, to have lit this theater as
brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I
suppose, fifty pounds. --F. Harrison.
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The sun has set, and Vesper, to supply
His absent beams, has lighted up the sky. --Dryden.
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3. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by
means of a light.
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His bishops lead him forth, and light him on.
--Landor.
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To light a fire, to kindle the material of a fire.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Light \Light\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lighted (l[imac]t"[e^]d) or
Lit (l[i^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Lighting.] [AS. l[imac]htan
to alight orig., to relieve (a horse) of the rider's burden,
to make less heavy, fr. l[imac]ht light. See Light not
heavy, and cf. Alight, Lighten to make light.]
1. To dismount; to descend, as from a horse or carriage; to
alight; -- with from, off, on, upon, at, in.
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When she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
--Gen. xxiv.
64.
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Slowly rode across a withered heath,
And lighted at a ruined inn. --Tennyson.
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2. To feel light; to be made happy. [Obs.]
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It made all their hearts to light. --Chaucer.
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3. To descend from flight, and rest, perch, or settle, as a
bird or insect.
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[The bee] lights on that, and this, and tasteth all.
--Sir. J.
Davies.
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On the tree tops a crested peacock lit. --Tennyson.
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4. To come down suddenly and forcibly; to fall; -- with on or
upon.
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On me, me only, as the source and spring
Of all corruption, all the blame lights due.
--Milton.
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5. To come by chance; to happen; -- with on or upon; formerly
with into.
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The several degrees of vision, which the assistance
of glasses (casually at first lit on) has taught us
to conceive. --Locke.
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They shall light into atheistical company. --South.
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And here we lit on Aunt Elizabeth,
And Lilia with the rest. --Tennyson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Lighting \Light"ing\, n. (Metal.)
A name sometimes applied to the process of annealing metals.
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