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LIGHTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of setting something on fire
Synonyms:
firing; ignition; inflammation; kindling; lighting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("lighting" is a kind of...):
burning; combustion (the act of burning something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The craft of providing artificial light
Example:
an interior decorator must understand lighting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("lighting" is a kind of...):
interior decorating; interior decoration (the trade or act of decorating the interior of a building or room, especially with regard to color combination, paint, fabrics, carpeting, etc.)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("lighting" is a kind of...):
apparatus; setup (equipment designed to serve a specific function)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lighting"):
backlighting (lighting from behind)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Having abundant light or illumination
Example:
as long as the lighting was good
Synonyms:
light; lighting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("lighting" is a kind of...):
illumination (the degree of visibility of your environment)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb light
Context examples:
Bill threw on more wood, before lighting his pipe.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
At early dawn the country inn was all alive, for it was rare indeed that an hour of daylight would be wasted at a time when lighting was so scarce and dear.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Fortunately, light pollution can be controlled by shielding lights to limit shine to the immediate area, reducing lighting to the minimum amount needed — or by simply turning them off.
(Milky Way now hidden from a third of humanity, NOAA)
Photographs of faces under LPS lighting were also matched to greens, but to a lesser extent.
(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)
Under certain lighting conditions, Cassini's wide-view images showing icy material erupting from Enceladus reveal faint, finger-like features, dubbed "tendrils" by the imaging team.
(Icy Tendrils Reaching into Saturn Ring Traced to Their Source, NASA)
He has been in the habit of lighting his pipe at lamps and gas-jets.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My uncle never smoked, thinking that the habit might darken his teeth, but many of the Corinthians, and the Prince amongst the first of them, set the example of lighting up.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I placed his arm-chair by the chimney-corner: I wheeled the table near it: I let down the curtain, and had the candles brought in ready for lighting.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"Personally, I am unable to classify the creature with any certainty," said Summerlee, lighting his pipe from the fire.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Night came on, and a full moon rose high over the trees into the sky, lighting the land till it lay bathed in ghostly day.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
