Word Finder - lighting

definition

To start (a fire).

example

We lit the fire to get some heat.

synonyms

• set

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To set fire to; to set burning.

example

She lit her last match.

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• conflagrate
• ignite
• kindle

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To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark.

example

I used my torch to light the way home through the woods in the night.

synonyms

• illuminate
• light up

definition

To become ignited; to take fire.

example

This soggy match will not light.

synonyms

• catch fire
• conflagrate
• ignite

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To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.

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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.

example

Light the extra ball by amassing 500 million points in the wizard mode.

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To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter

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To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.

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To find by chance.

example

I lit upon a rare book in a second-hand bookseller's.

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To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice

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To alight; to land or come down.

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She fell out of the window but luckily lit on her feet.

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The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.

synonyms

• illumination
• light
• light source

definition

The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.

definition

The process of annealing metals.

The lighting was harsh.

Darian sensed him and whirled, his eyes lighting up before he looked down.

The fire flared brighter, lighting up his body.

The conference room was silent, the air purified, the lighting perfect.

Her ears still rung from the explosions lighting up the sky.

The flames now died down and were lost in the black smoke, now suddenly flared up again brightly, lighting up with strange distinctness the faces of the people crowding at the crossroads.

He was already lighting up when he asked.

She jerked the amulet off his neck, and the lighting flickered.

Where most houses would have a deck, there was a large studio, with professional lighting and lots of glass.

Several of the rooms on either side were open, revealing couples in various stages of undress, a room with junkies shooting up and potheads lighting up, and a room filled with what looked like people sleeping.

As to lighting, the oil lamp has been largely displaced by gas and electricity.

She gazed at the soft ceiling lighting before tilting her head to see whose quiet voices she heard.

A single bulb dangled from the ceiling, lighting up a wide area but not the entire space.

The gas is excellent, is used for lighting the town, supplies light and fuel for the people, and a number of industries are using the gas for manufacturing.

The stranger glowed strangely in the otherwise dim lighting.

Concrete floors were cool beneath her bare feet, and the perimeter was lit by dim lighting.

Jonny opened it to reveal a comfortable looking room with a plush couch set, rugs to cover the concrete floors, and television lighting the room.

Their descendants are known as the senior and junior branches of the family, and since 1841 each has ruled his 'own portion as a separate state, though the lands belonging to each are so intimately entangled, that even in Dewas, the capital town, the two sides of the main street are under different administrations and have different arrangements for water supply and lighting.

When they are worked from a power station the great advantage is gained that the same plant which drives them can be used for many other purposes, such as working machine tools and supplying current for lighting.

The story in picturesque fashion makes Patrick challenge the royal authority by lighting the Paschal fire on the hill of Slane on the night of Easter Eve.

The municipality owns and operates the water-works (the water-supply being drawn from the Penobscot by the Holly system) and an electric-lighting plant; there is also a large electric plant for generation of electricity for power and for commercial lighting, and in Bangor and the vicinity there were in 1908 about 60 m.

The corporation has acquired the gas-works, the cable tramways (leased to a company), the electric lighting of the streets, and the water-supply from the Pentlands (reinforced by additional sources in the Moorfoot Hills and Talla Water).

The gas and electric lighting is in the hands of private firms. The administration of the park, the city improvements and the water and sewerage departments have been handed over to boards and trusts.

Next to the poor rate came that for highways, and other special rates have been authorized from time to time, as for police, education, public lighting, cemeteries, libraries, sanitary purposes, &c. To distinguish the rate the name of the precepting authority is frequently added or the purpose for which it is levied specified, as county rate, watch rate, &c. The valuation list of a parish is the basis on which the poor rate is levied.

Electricity is obtained for lighting and other purposes by utilizing the abundant water-power in the district.

As regards street lighting, the extended use of burners with incandescent mantles has been of good effect.

The vestries and district boards became the authorities for local drainage, paving, lighting, repairing and maintaining streets, and for the removal of nuisances, &c.

Again, with regard to rates, there were in all cases three different rates leviable in each parish-the poor rate, the general rate and the sewers rate-whilst in many parishes in addition there was a separate lighting rate.

From the sewers rate and lighting rate, land, as opposed to buildings, was entitled to certain exemptions.

Finsbury Square was the first public place in which gas lighting was actually adopted, and Grosvenor Square the last.

Mine fires may originate from ordinary causes, but in addition they may result from the explosion of fire-damp or from the accidental lighting of jets of fire-damp issuing from the coal.

There C are no important industries, except a few flour-mills, some glass works, iron foundries, a motor car factory, straw hat factories, and power-houses supplying electricity for lighting and for the numerous tramcars.

There is a good public library; much attention has been devoted to public improvements; and the water works and the electric lighting plants are owned and operated by the city.

The glare of these seemed to the allies to betoken the familiar device of lighting fires previous to a retreat, and thus confirmed them in the impression which Napoleon's calculated timidity had given.

Natural gas is extensively used for fuel and for lighting.

The municipality owns and operates the waterworks, a natural gas plant, and an electric lighting plant.

The city is provided with tramways, telephone service and electric lighting, but the water supply and drainage are inferior.

The lighting of underground workings in collieries is closely connected with the subject of ventilation.

This fact having been fully demonstrated, acetylene dissolved in this way was exempted from the Explosives Act, and consequently upon this exemption a large business has grown up in the preparation and use of dissolved acetylene for lighting motor omnibuses, motor cars, railway carriages, lighthouses, buoys, yachts, &c., for which it is particularly adapted.

In 1737 he had been appointed postmaster at Philadelphia, and about the same time he organized the first police force and fire company in the colonies; in 1749, after he had written Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania, he and twenty-three other citizens of Philadelphia formed themselves into an association for the purpose of establishing an academy, which was opened in 1751, was chartered in 1753, and eventually became the University of Pennsylvania; in 1727 he organized a debating club, the " Junto," in Philadelphia, and later he was one of the founders of the American Philosophical Society (1743; incorporated 1780); he took the lead in the organization of a militia force, and in the paving of the city streets, improved the method of street lighting, and assisted in the founding of a city hospital (1751); in brief, he gave the impulse to nearly every measure or project for the welfare and prosperity of Philadelphia undertaken in his day.

It was estimated that the project would furnish water for one million people, beside supplying power for lighting, manufacturing and transportation purposes.

Beginning in 1892 various townships and cities, numbering 18 in 1903, adopted municipal ownership and operation of lighting works.

Any " town " having a village or district within its limits that contains moo inhabitants or more may authorize that village or district to establish a separate organization for lighting its streets, building and maintaining sidewalks, and employing a watchman or policeman, the officers of such organization to include at least a prudential committee and a clerk.

From 1861-91 methylated spirits prepared in this way were allowed to be sold by retail in Great Britain in small quantities for domestic purposes such as cleaning, heating and lighting; but use in large quantities, or in manufacture, was only possible under special authority and under excise supervision.

For the purpose of measuring resistances up to a few thousand ohms, the most convenient appliance is a Wheatstone's Bridge (q.v), but when the resistance of the conductor to be measured is several hundred thousand ohms, or if it is the resistance of a so-called insulator, such as the insulating covering of the copper wires employed for distributing electric current in houses and buildings for electric lighting, then the ohmmeter is more convenient.

An altar, furnished with lamps, was placed before the statue; the inquirer, after lighting the lamps and offering incense, placed a coin in the right hand of the god; he then whispered his question into the ear of the statue, and, stopping his own ears, left the market place.

The inspection of tramways, their by-laws and "provisional orders" are all dealt with here, as are similar orders relating to gas and water schemes and to electric lighting.

The street railway and the lighting system of the city are run by power generated at a plant and 40 ft.

Natural gas derived from the Kansas fields became available for lighting and heating, and crude oil for fuel, in 1906.

Edison, the last-named inventor elaborating a type of meter which he employed in connexion with his system of electric lighting in its early days.