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LIGHT UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make lighter or brighter
Example:
This lamp lightens the room a bit
Synonyms:
illume; illuminate; illumine; light; light up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "light up" is one way to...):
lighten; lighten up (become lighter)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "light up"):
floodlight (illuminate with floodlights)
spotlight (illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Begin to smoke
Example:
After the meal, some of the diners lit up
Synonyms:
fire up; light; light up
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "light up" is one way to...):
ignite; light (cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat)
"Light up" entails doing...:
smoke (inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Start to burn with a bright flame
Example:
The coal in the BBQ grill finally lit up
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Hypernyms (to "light up" is one way to...):
catch fire; combust; conflagrate; erupt; ignite; take fire (start to burn or burst into flames)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 4
Meaning:
Ignite
Example:
The sky lit up quickly above the raging volcano
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Hypernyms (to "light up" is one way to...):
ignite; light (cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 5
Meaning:
Become clear
Example:
The sky cleared after the storm
Synonyms:
brighten; clear; clear up; light up
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
It is ----ing
Context examples:
The paper-based sensor, which can be worn as a wristband, features happy and sad emoticon faces—drawn in an invisible UV-sensitive ink—that successively light up as you reach 25%, 50%, 75% and finally 100% of your daily recommended UV exposure.
(New wristband provides personalised and real-time tracking of UV exposure, University of Granada)
If the prediction is correct, then for the first time in history, parents will be able to point to a dark spot in the sky and say, ‘Watch, kids, there’s a star hiding in there, but soon it’s going to light up," Matt Walhout, dean for research and scholarship at Calvin College, said.
(Star Explosion Could Change Night Sky, VOA News)
I smell the fog that hung about the place; I see the hoar frost, ghostly, through it; I feel my rimy hair fall clammy on my cheek; I look along the dim perspective of the schoolroom, with a sputtering candle here and there to light up the foggy morning, and the breath of the boys wreathing and smoking in the raw cold as they blow upon their fingers, and tap their feet upon the floor.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
As an aside, if you were born between 1988 and 1992, many of the planets were in Capricorn during those years too, and this year will light up your natal Capricorn planets.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
If at the full moon of December 11 in Gemini, should you choose not to be on the road, you may have other areas that light up.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
If you have a natal planet or natal moon in Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio, Taurus, Virgo, or Capricorn within five degrees of 20 degrees, you will see that planet light up and send you a cornucopia of gifts.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
