Light

  • 91light —    1. promiscuous    Of no moral weight but light ladies, wenches, or women were not successful dieters or those emulating Florence Nightingale but prostitutes:     I wouldn t have thought that many of the light ladies of Calcutta had the… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 92light — 1. verb /laɪt/ a) To start (a fire). She lit her last match. b) To set fire to. I lit upon a rare book in a second hand booksellers. Syn: ignite …

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  • 93light — [OE] English has two distinct words light. The one meaning ‘illumination’ comes ultimately from Indo European *leuk , *louk , *luk , which also produced Greek leukós ‘white’ (source of English leukaemia [20]) and Latin lūx ‘light’ (from which… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 94light up — phrasal verb Word forms light up : present tense I/you/we/they light up he/she/it lights up present participle lighting up past tense lit up past participle lit up 1) [intransitive/transitive] informal to light a cigarette 2) [transitive] same as …

    English dictionary

  • 95light — [OE] English has two distinct words light. The one meaning ‘illumination’ comes ultimately from Indo European *leuk , *louk , *luk , which also produced Greek leukós ‘white’ (source of English leukaemia [20]) and Latin lūx ‘light’ (from which… …

    Word origins

  • 96light — (Voz inglesa.) ► adjetivo 1 Que tiene disminuidas las sustancias que lo caracterizan por considerarlas perjudiciales para la salud: ■ es preferible que fumes cigarrillos lights ya que no dejas el tabaco. IRREG. plural lights 2 COCINA Se aplica al …

    Enciclopedia Universal

  • 97light up — Synonyms and related words: annoy, arouse, awake, awaken, bank, beacon, blow the coals, blow up, brace up, brighten, brighten up, buck up, burn, call forth, call up, cheer up, chirk up, conflagrate, enkindle, enlighten, enrage, excite, fan, fan… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 98light — A powerful symbol mentioned at the beginning (Gen. 1:3) and the end (Rev. 22:5) of the Bible for goodness and truth. Hence the Law is described as ‘a light for my path’ (Ps. 119:105); ‘the day of the Lord’ was expected to be light (Amos 5:18),… …

    Dictionary of the Bible

  • 99Light It Up — Filmdaten Deutscher Titel Light It Up Produktionsland USA …

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  • 100light — Although in physics light is well understood as electromagnetic energy of a very specific wavelength (between 390 and 740 nanometers: a nanometer is 10–9 metre), the fact that this is just the energy that illuminates the world for us is evidently …

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