light meaning
EN[laɪt] [-aɪt]UK US
WLight
- Light is electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The word usually refers to visible light, which is visible to the human eye and is responsible for the sense of sight.
- The main source of light on Earth is the Sun. Sunlight provides the energy that green plants use to create sugars mostly in the form of starches, which release energy into the living things that digest them.
- Primary properties of visible light are intensity, propagation direction, frequency or wavelength spectrum, and polarisation, while its speed in a vacuum, 299,792,458 meters per second, is one of the fundamental constants of nature.
EN Light
- NounPLlights
- (uncountable) The natural medium emanating from the Sun and other very hot sources (now recognised as electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of 400-750 nm), within which vision is possible.
- As you can see, this spacious dining-room gets a lot of light in the mornings.
- A source of illumination.
- Put that light out!
- Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
- Can you throw any light on this problem?
- (in the plural, now rare) Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
- A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
- Picasso was one of the leading lights of the cubist movement.
- (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; opposed to shade.
- A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
- I'm really seeing you in a different light today.
- Magoon's governorship in Cuba was viewed in a negative light by many Cuban historians for years thereafter.
- A flame or something used to create fire.
- Hey, buddy, you got a light?
- A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
- a Bengal light
- A window, or space for a window in architecture.
- This facade has eight south-facing lights.
- The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
- The average length of a light on a 15×15 grid is 7 or 8.
- (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
- Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
- The power of perception by vision.
- The brightness of the eye or eyes.
- A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one.
- To get to our house, turn right at the third light.
- (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
- (uncountable) The natural medium emanating from the Sun and other very hot sources (now recognised as electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of 400-750 nm), within which vision is possible.
- VerbSGlightsPRlightingPT, PPlitPT, PPlighted
- (transitive) To start (a fire).
- We lit the fire to get some heat.
- (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning; to kindle.
- She lit her last match.
- (transitive) To illuminate.
- I used my torch to light the way home through the woods in the night.
- (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
- This soggy match will not light.
- To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
- (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter.
- To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
- To find by chance.
- I lit upon a rare book in a second-hand bookseller's.
- (archaic) To alight; to land or come down.
- She fell out of the window but luckily lit on her feet.
- (transitive) To start (a fire).
- AdjectiveCOMlighterSUPlightest
- Having light.
- The room is light when the Sun shines through the window.
- Pale in colour.
- 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the Sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
- (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
- I like my coffee light.
- Of low weight; not heavy.
- My bag was much lighter once I had dropped off the books.
- Lightly-built; designed for speed or small loads.
- We took a light aircraft down to the city.
- Gentle; having little force or momentum.
- This artist clearly had a light, flowing touch.
- Easy to endure or perform.
- light duties around the house
- Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
- This light beer still gets you drunk if you have enough of it.
- Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
- I made some light comment, and we moved on.
- (rail transport, of a locomotive, usually with "run") travelling with no carriages, wagons attached.
- (obsolete) Unchaste, wanton.
- Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
- light troops; a troop of light horse
- Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
- (dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
- a light, vain person; a light mind
- Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
- Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
- Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished.
- light coin
- Easily interrupted by stimulation.
- light sleep, light anesthesia
- Having light.
- AdverbCOMlighterSUPlightest
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- This leads to a spectral shift as emission light is postfiltered by excitation of the fluorophore.
- He performed one of Ravel's piano concertos with a wonderfully light and playful touch.
- The new instruments will shed some light on the history of these rocks.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds
- Lights blazed down, but not too strongly, so that the dancers could drift along or jimjam in ecstatic rhythm, in a simulacrum of private worlds.
- Light filtered in through the blinds of the french windows. It made tremulous stripes along the scrubbed pine floor.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Lines were long at the polling stations here well before morning had unscrolled its first light.
- Once I was lost in darkness, but now I have seen the light.
- These particles have been studied using a number of techniques ranging from in-situ satellite detectors to analysis of lunar microcraters to ground-based observations of zodiacal light.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of light in English Dictionary
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