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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: having abundant light or illumination; "they played as long as it was light"; "as long as the lighting was good" [syn: light, lighting] [ant: dark, darkness]
2: apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film
3: the craft of providing artificial light; "an interior decorator must understand lighting"
4: the act of setting something on fire [syn: ignition, firing, lighting, kindling, inflammation]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: before 12th century 1. a. illumination b. ignition 2. an artificial supply of light or the apparatus providing it

Britannica Concise

Use of an artificial source of light for illumination. It is a key element of architecture and interior design. Residential lighting uses mainly either incandescent lamps or fluorescent lamps and often depends heavily on movable fixtures plugged into outlets; built-in lighting is typically found in kitchens, bathrooms, and corridors and in the form of hanging pendants in dining rooms and sometimes recessed fixtures in living rooms. Lighting in nonresidential buildings is predominantly fluorescent. High-pressure sodium-vapor lamps (see electric discharge lamp) have higher efficiency and are used in industrial applications. Halogen lamps have residential, industrial, and photographic applications. Depending on their fixtures, lamps (bulbs) produce a variety of lighting conditions. Incandescent lamps placed in translucent glass globes create diffuse effects; in recessed ceiling-mounted fixtures with reflectors, they can light walls or floors evenly. Fluorescent fixtures are typically recessed and rectangular, with prismatic lenses, but other types incl. indirect cove lights (see coving) and luminous ceilings, in which lamps are placed above suspended translucent panels. Mercury-vapor and high-pressure sodium-vapor lamps are placed in simple reflectors in industrial spaces, in pole-mounted streetlight fixtures, and in indirect up-lighting fixtures for commercial applications.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 equipment in a room or street etc. for producing light. 2 the arrangement or effect of lights.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Light Light, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lighted (-[e^]d) or Lit (l[i^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Lighting.] [AS. l[=y]htan, l[=i]htan, to shine. [root]122. See Light, n.] 1. To set fire to; to cause to burn; to set burning; to ignite; to kindle; as, to light a candle or lamp; to light the gas; -- sometimes with up. If a thousand candles be all lighted from one. --Hakewill. And the largest lamp is lit. --Macaulay. Absence might cure it, or a second mistress Light up another flame, and put out this. --Addison. 2. To give light to; to illuminate; to fill with light; to spread over with light; -- often with up. Ah, hopeless, lasting flames ! like those that burn To light the dead. --Pope. One hundred years ago, to have lit this theater as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds. --F. Harrison. The sun has set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, has lighted up the sky. --Dryden. 3. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light. His bishops lead him forth, and light him on. --Landor. To light a fire, to kindle the material of a fire.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Light Light, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lighted (-[e^]d) or Lit (l[i^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Lighting.] [AS. l[=i]htan to alight, orig., to relieve (a horse) of the rider's burden, to make less heavy, fr. l[=i]ht light. See Light not heavy, and cf. Alight, Lighten to make light.] 1. To dismount; to descend, as from a horse or carriage; to alight; -- with from, off, on, upon, at, in. When she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. --Gen. xxiv. 64. Slowly rode across a withered heath, And lighted at a ruined inn. --Tennyson. 2. To feel light; to be made happy. [Obs.] It made all their hearts to light. --Chaucer. 3. To descend from flight, and rest, perch, or settle, as a bird or insect. [The bee] lights on that, and this, and tasteth all. --Sir. J. Davies. On the tree tops a crested peacock lit. --Tennyson. 4. To come down suddenly and forcibly; to fall; -- with on or upon. On me, me only, as the source and spring Of all corruption, all the blame lights due. --Milton. 5. To come by chance; to happen; -- with on or upon; formerly with into. The several degrees of vision, which the assistance of glasses (casually at first lit on) has taught us to conceive. --Locke. They shall light into atheistical company. --South. And here we lit on Aunt Elizabeth, And Lilia with the rest. --Tennyson.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lighting Light"ing, n. (Metal.) A name sometimes applied to the process of annealing metals.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. The lighting in a place is the way that it is lit, for example by electric lights, by candles, or by windows, or the quality of the light in it. ...the bright fluorescent lighting of the laboratory... The whole room is bathed in soft lighting. ...street lighting. 2. The lighting in a film or play is the use of different electric lights to give a particular effect. Peter Mumford's lighting and David Freeman's direction make a crucial contribution to the success of the staging.

Moby Thesaurus

arc lighting, black and white, brightening, chiaroscuro, contrast, decorative lighting, direct lighting, electric lighting, enkindling, enlightening, enlightenment, festoon lighting, firing, flammation, floodlighting, fluorescent lighting, gaslighting, glow lighting, highlights, ignition, illuminating, illumination, illumining, incandescent lighting, incendiary, indirect lighting, inflaming, inflammation, inflammative, inflammatory, irradiation, kindling, light and shade, lightening, lighting up, overhead lighting, radiation, spot lighting, stage lighting, strip lighting, tonality