lighting

Meanings

Plural: lightings

Noun

• having abundant light or illumination
  • "as long as the lighting was good"
• apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film
• the craft of providing artificial light
  • "an interior decorator must understand lighting"
• the act of setting something on fire
• The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.
• The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.
• The process of annealing metals.

Verb

• make lighter or brighter
• begin to smoke
• to come to rest, settle
• cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
• fall to somebody by assignment or lot
• alight from (a horse)
• present participle and gerund of light

Synonyms

alight, dismount, fall, fire up, firing, get down, get off, ignite, ignition, illume, illuminate, illumination, illumine, inflammation, kindling, light, light source, light up, perch, unhorse

Antonyms

dark, extinguish