Word Finder - lighter

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Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure.

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The room is light when the Sun shines through the window.

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Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma.

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She had light skin.

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(of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.

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I like my coffee light.

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Having little or relatively little actual weight; not cumbrous or unwieldy.

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a light load ; a lighter backpack after having removed the books ; light weapons

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Having little weight as compared with bulk; of little density or specific gravity.

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feathers and cork are light ; oil is lighter than water

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Of short or insufficient weight; weighing less than the legal, standard or proper amount; clipped or diminished.

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to issue light coin

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Lacking that which burdens or makes heavy.

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Not heavy or soggy; spongy; well raised.

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a light bread ; sponge cake is a light cake

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Gentle; having little force or momentum.

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This artist clearly had a light, flowing touch.

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Easy to endure or perform.

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light duties around the house

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Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.

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This light beer still gets you drunk if you have enough of it.

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Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.

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I made some light comment, and we moved on.

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Unchaste, wanton.

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Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.

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Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.

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a light, vain person; a light mind

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Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.

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Ogden Nash was a writer of light verse.

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Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.

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Easily interrupted by stimulation.

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light sleep; light anesthesia

It is slightly lighter than air.

Although they were the same shape, they were lighter, like comparing plastic beads to glass ones.

It was getting lighter and lighter, but the mist still hid distant objects.

The crowds were lighter than yesterday, due to the heavy snowfall making not only climbing difficult, but viewing a wet and laborious task.

The closing of the traffic made the labour of the slaves more severe, and led to the employment on the plantations of many who before had been engaged in domestic work; but the slavery of Brazil had always been lighter than that of the United States.

Selection of soups and salads are avaliable at the cafe for those who want a lighter, healthier lunch.

A structure loomed darkly against the lighter horizon.

I'm sure there's some lighter fluid around here but your grill is gas so you don't need it.

He jammed in the cig­arette lighter from his sitting position on the floor.

Larger combinations, being semi-orchestral, especially where the double-bass and wind instruments are used, lend themselves to a somewhat lighter style; thus Beethoven's septet and Schubert's octet are both in the nature of a very large serenade.

The streak is blue, but lighter than the colour of the mineral in mass.

Their primary object being the development and peopling of the land, they have naturally been made as cheaply as possible; and as in such cases the cost of the land is inconsiderable, economy has been sought by the use of lighter and rougher permanent way, plant, rolling stock, &c. Such railways are not " light " in the technical sense of having been made under enactments intended to secure permanent lowness of cost as compared with standard lines.

The larger stones having been removed by hand, gyratory motion is given to the pan by a combination of shaking and twisting movements so as to keep its contents suspended in the stream of water, which carries away the bulk of the lighter material, leaving the heavy minerals, together with any gold which may have been present.

Gungl (1810-1889) gives name to a "school" of waltz and other dance music. Opera, especially in its lighter form, flourishes, and the actors of Vienna maintain with success a traditional reputation of no mean order.

They are made usually of crown glass or rock crystal ("pebbles"), the latter being somewhat lighter and cooler to wear.

At Hirado the ceramists affected a lighter and more delicatetone than that of the Chinese, and, in order to obtain it, subjected the choice pigment of the Middle Kingdom to refining processes of great severity.

The lighter part surrounding them was liquid before the chill; it is rich in tin.

The hexameter no longer, as in Lucilius, moves awkwardly as if in fetters, but, like the language of Terence, of Catullus in his lighter pieces, of Cicero in his letters to Atticus, adapts itself to the everyday intercourse of life.

Its general colour is blackish, lighter by mixture of brown or grey on the head and upper fore part of the body, with no light patch on the throat, and unlike other martens generally darker below than above.

In the placer or alluvial deposits, the precious metal is found usually in a water-worn condition imbedded in earthy matter, and the method of working all such deposits is based on the disintegration of the earthy matter by the action of a stream of water, which washes away the lighter portions and leaves the denser gold.

The stuff from the stamps is conveyed to the middle of the muller, and is distributed over the mercury, when the gold subsides, while the quartz and lighter materials are guided by the blades to the circumference and are discharged, usually into a second similar mill, and subsequently pass over blanket tables, i.e.

The honeycomb of rock, and capillary action, retard the lighter fresh-water from sinking to the sea; the soakage from rain has therefore to move horizontally, over the strata about sea-level, seeking outlets.

The determination in the case of solids lighter than water is effected by the introduction of a sinker, i.e.

The importance of the osmotic pressure of sea-water in biology will be easily understood from the fact that a frog placed in sea-water loses water by exosmosis and soon becomes 20% lighter than its original weight, while a true salt-water fish suddenly transferred to fresh water gains water by endosmosis, swells up and quickly succumbs.

It has therefore been proposed, for greater depths, to put four columns of tubbings of smaller diameters, 82 and 52 ft., in the shaft, and fill up the remainder of the boring with concrete, so that with thinner and lighter castings a greater depth may be reached.

The tail rope, which is of lighter section than the main one, is coiled on the second drum, passes over similar guide sheaves placed near the roof or side of the gallery round a pulley at the bottom of the plane, and is fixed to the end of the train or set of tubs.

The smaller duff is separated by vibrating or rotating screens into a great number of sizes, which are cleaned by washing in continuous current or pulsating jigging machines, where the lighter coal rises to the surface and is removed by a stream of water, while the heavier waste falls and is discharged at a lower level, or through a valve at the bottom of the machine.

There is also a lighter form of excommunication which "devotes" the goods of an offender, but only separates him from the congregation.

Although not vigorous enough to excel in the historical epic or in the serious work of the Roman satura, Varro yet possessed in considerable measure the lighter gifts which we admire in Catullus.

The colour is usually pale bronze-yellow, often rather lighter than that of pyrites; on freshly fractured surfaces of pure marcasite the colour is tin-white, but this rapidly tarnishes on exposure to air.

After protracted experimenting Sir Thomas Wardle was able in 1873 to show a series of tussurs well dyed in all the darker shades of colour, but the lighter and bright blues, pinks, scarlets, &c., he could not produce, Subsequently Tessie du Motay found that the fawn colour of natural tussur could be discharged by solution of permanganate of potash, but the oxidizing action was so rapid and violent that it destroyed the fibre itself.

The steel reinforcement is generally applied in the form of vertical rods built in the wall at intervals, with lighter horizontal rods which cross the vertical ones, and thus form a network of steel which is buried in the concrete.

A lighter vein is to be observed in various dramatic satires written at this time, such as Cotter, Helden and Wieland (1774), Hanswursts Hochzeit, Fastnachtsspiel vorn Pater Brey, Satyros, and in the Singspiele, Erwin and Elmire (1775) and Claudine von Villa Bella (1776); while in the Frankfurter Gelehrte Anzeiger (1772- 1773), Goethe drove home the principles of the new movement of Sturm and Drang in terse and pointed criticism.

They are of a lighter build than the ground-porcupines, with short, close, many-coloured spines, often mixed with hairs, and prehensile tails.

Farther away from the granite the slates are not so much altered, but generally show small rounded or ovoid spots, which may be darker or lighter in colour than the matrix.

Among variations from this type may be mentioned higher stature in some districts, and lighter complexion in Tehuantepec and elsewhere.

In 1902, in an "attempt at a chemical conception of the ether," he put forward the hypothesis that there are in existence two elements of smaller atomic weight than hydrogen, and that the lighter of these is a chemically inert, exceedingly mobile, all-penetrating and all-pervading gas, which constitutes the aether.

There is a much lighter snowfall in winter than in northern Ontario and Quebec, with somewhat lower temperatures.

The hair covering the body is long, coarse, and of a peculiarly brittle and pith-like character, breaking easily; it is generally of a greyish-brown colour, sometimes inclined to yellowish-red, and often variegated with lighter patches.

The oil has been chemically analysed and found to be a fish-oil, and to possess nearly all the qualities of that obtained from the liver of the cod, with a lighter specific gravity.

But, the length of the stem being settled, the lower scale may be made lighter, and, consequently, the globe less, the greater its distance is taken from the surface of the globe; and the contrary."

To this point soft bodies lighter than water (which would float if placed in the cup) could be attached, and thus completely immersed.

Charles's balance areometer is similar to Nicholson's hydrometer, except that the lower basin admits of inversion, thus enabling the instrument to be employed for solids lighter than water, the inverted basin serving the same purpose as the pointed screw in Atkins's modification of the instrument.

When loaded with either of the lightest two weights the instrument is specifically lighter than Sikes's hydrometer when unloaded, and it may thus be used for specific gravities as low as that of absolute alcohol.

The wood of large trees is compact in texture, in the best varieties of a deep reddish colour varying to brownish-yellow, but apt to be lighter in tint, and less hard in grain, when grown in rich soils or in low sheltered situations.

A third type, Prometheomys, from the Caucasus, is represented by a species of the size of a small water-rat, chestnut-brown in colour, with lighter feet, and the minute eyes covered with skin.

The lighter oil is conveyed to Batum on the Black Sea in pipes, and is there shipped for export; the heavier oils reach the same port and the ports of Novorossiysk and Poti, also on the Black Sea, in tank railway-cars.

Account must also be taken of the possibility that in early times lighter teams were in general use.

The jacconet is a plain cloth, lighter than a shirting and heavier than a mull.

In weight it is lighter than a shirting, and it is usually ornamented with a distinctive coloured heading.