Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word LIGHT

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Definitions of LIGHT

1. A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
2. A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
3. A flame or something used to create fire.
4. A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
5. Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
6. The power of perception by vision.
7. The brightness of the eye or eyes.
8. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
9. Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure.
10. Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma.
11. Having little or relatively little actual weight; not cumbrous or unwieldy.
12. Having little weight as compared with bulk; of little density or specific gravity.
13. Of short or insufficient weight; weighing less than the legal, standard or proper amount; clipped or diminished.
14. Lacking that which burdens or makes heavy.
15. Gentle; having little force or momentum.
16. Easy to endure or perform.
17. Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
18. Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
19. Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
20. Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
21. Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
22. Easily interrupted by stimulation.
23. Carrying little.
24. To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
25. To find by chance.
26. A window in architecture, carriage design, or motor car design: either the opening itself or the window pane of glass that fills it, if any.
27. Slight, not forceful or intense; small in amount or intensity.
28. (physics, uncountable) Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye (about 400–750 nanometers); visible light.
29. (countable) A source of illumination.
30. (figurative) Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
31. (in the plural, now, rare) Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
32. (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; opposed to shade.
33. (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
34. (transitive) To start (a fire).
35. (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning.
36. (transitive) To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark.
37. (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
38. (transitive, pinball) To make (a bonus) available to be collected by hitting a target, and thus light up the feature light corresponding to that bonus to indicate its availability.
39. (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
40. (cookery) Not heavy or soggy; spongy; well raised.
41. (obsolete) Unchaste, wanton.
42. (dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
43. Cheerful.
44. (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
45. See lights.
46. (AU, uncountable) A low-alcohol lager.
47. (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter
48. To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice
49. (archaic) To alight; to land or come down.
50. A surname.
51. (Islam) The 24th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
52. (military, historical) A member of the light cavalry.
53. (crosswording) The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
54. (by extension) To leave; to depart.
55. A place name:

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Examples of Using LIGHT in a Sentence

• Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more.
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel (10 May 1788 – 14 July 1827) was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, excluding any remnant of Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late 1830s until the end of the 19th century.
• Specifically, he was the first to explain that vision occurs when light bounces on an object and then enters an eye.
• Anthemius was said to have annoyed his neighbor Zeno in two ways: first, by engineering a miniature earthquake by sending steam through leather tubes he had fixed among the joists and flooring of Zeno's parlor while he was entertaining friends and, second, by simulating thunder and lightning and flashing intolerable light into Zeno's eyes from a slightly hollowed mirror.
• Its value depends on its intrinsic luminosity, its distance, and any extinction of the object's light caused by interstellar dust along the line of sight to the observer.
• An object's absolute magnitude is defined to be equal to the apparent magnitude that the object would have if it were viewed from a distance of exactly , without extinction (or dimming) of its light due to absorption by interstellar matter and cosmic dust.
• Absorption (electromagnetic radiation), absorption of light or other electromagnetic radiation by a material.
• The timbre of musical instruments can be considered in the light of Fourier theory to consist of multiple harmonic or inharmonic partials or overtones.
• With the gradual decline of mounted cavalry, armored cars were developed for carrying out duties formerly assigned to light cavalry.
• For light atoms (Z<12), this energy is most often transferred to a valence electron which is subsequently ejected from the atom.
• AAS is based on the absorption of light by free metallic ions that have been atomized from a sample.
• In optics, aberration is a property of optical systems, such as lenses, that causes light to be spread out over some region of space rather than focused to a point.
• An afterglow in meteorology consists of several atmospheric optical phenomena, with a general definition as a broad arch of whitish or pinkish sunlight in the twilight sky, consisting of the bright segment and the purple light.
• Originally, it was a brand of Beech Aircraft Corporation, an American manufacturer of general aviation, commercial, and military aircraft, ranging from light single-engined aircraft to twin-engined turboprop transports, business jets, and military trainers.
• The term blue generally describes colours perceived by humans observing light with a dominant wavelength that's between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres.
• Written and performed by Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler, it was one of the few popular songs of the Vietnam War years to cast the military in a positive light.
• It measures luminous power per unit solid angle emitted by a light source in a particular direction.
• Many remote areas that not connected to the country's road network, especially in the eastern part of the country outside of the major cities and towns, can only be reached by light aircraft, boat (via river) or on foot.
• A coma is a deep state of prolonged unconsciousness in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light, or sound, lacks a normal wake-sleep cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions.
• The challenges involved in caving vary according to the cave being visited; in addition to the total absence of light beyond the entrance, negotiating pitches, squeezes, Cave diving is a distinct, and more hazardous, sub-speciality undertaken by a small minority of technically proficient cavers.

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