Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The state of being lighted; illumination.
  • noun The method or equipment used to provide artificial illumination.
  • noun The illumination so provided.
  • noun The act or process of igniting.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of making or becoming light or less heavy. See light, transitive verb
  • noun The act of making light or becoming light. See light, transitive verb
  • noun The act of igniting or illuminating: as, the lighting of a fire; street-lighting.
  • noun In metal-working, same as annealing.
  • noun The act of alighting, as from flight.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Metal.) A name sometimes applied to the process of annealing metals.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided
  • noun the act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.
  • noun The process of annealing metals.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of setting something on fire
  • noun apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film
  • noun the craft of providing artificial light
  • noun having abundant light or illumination

Etymologies

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Examples

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  • He smiled suddenly, the expression lighting up his whole face.

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  • And— He smiled suddenly, the expression lighting up his rather somber face.

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  • In the example, the author moves an open book from a plain white background to a wood floor, and though the lighting is a little conspicuous, the results are still impressive.

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  • Apart from the fact that the lighting is a lot less even and there is more shadow in this shot, what is evident here is that the baby's body has been excavated more completely, or "Green Helmet" has pulled it from the dust.

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  • The latest effort to get Blackpool back on the map is what they call a lighting spectacular -

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  • Its in the lower level or basement of the strip downtown (which does make the new name make sense) and the lighting is on the dim side, just a great place to unwind.

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