Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural The lungs, especially the lungs of an animal slaughtered for food.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural The lungs of an animal or bird; -- sometimes coarsely applied to the lungs of a human being.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
light . - noun A
butcher 's term for thelungs of an animal (being lighter than adjacent parts). - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
light .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The words loom in lights from the centerfield scoreboard before each game.
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Turning off the lights is a good start. joe from Lowell says:
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Turning off the lights is a good gesture to raise awareness, nothing more.
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Crossing or entering 29 at any of the lights is a whole other deal.
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The silhouettes melt into the sky; the shadows are lights where certain tones, the blue, the purple, the green and the orange, predominate, and it is the proportional quantity of the spots that differentiates in our eyes the shadows from what we call the lights, just as it actually happens in optic science.
The French Impressionists (1860-1900) Camille Mauclair 1908
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Solar lights from the small town to the south flickered in the night, reminding me that I lived within walking distance.
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Solar lights from the small town to the south flickered in the night, reminding me that I lived within walking distance.
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For a fleeting moment the track ahead, pitch black apart from the comet-tailed guide lights is condensed and relegated to the bottom right of my vision.
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I wanted to share my story, as well as, my product in lights that it would help you save money on your home phone, allow you to see family and friends who are not local to you, and help me continue to be successful in growing my home business so that I can continue enjoying my kids and hubby.
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‘Behind each of those lights is a story,’ she remembered her Dad saying many, many nights when tucking her in to bed.
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treeseed commented on the word lights
In astrology, the sun and the moon
February 24, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word lights
"By scrimping and saving, making Christmas presents for everyone herself and being very sweet and cajoling to the butcher, Kathleen managed to buy Leo raw lights every other day, and still saved enough to give him a red rubber ball for Christmas."
Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones, pp 79-80 of the 2001 hardcover edition
July 29, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word lights
See discussion on what the living fuck is THAT.
October 8, 2010