gaslightn.

Brit.

/ˈɡaslʌɪt/, U.S.

/ˈɡæsˌlaɪt/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: gas n.¹, light n.¹

Etymology: < gas n.¹ + light n.¹ Compare gas lighting n.¹

Now chiefly historical.

1. A lamp in which an incandescent mantle is heated by a jet of burning gas.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > types of

crusiea1774

agitable lamp1788

gaslight1806

moaler1843

table lampc1849

bracket-burner1867

blast-lampa1884

Betty lamp1893

acetylene1899

quartz lamp1907

Etna lamp1912

palouser1918

1806 Morning Chron. 28 July (advt.) A general introduction of economical gas light [later issues lights].

1815 F. Accum Pract. Treat. Gas-light (ed. 2) 145 The Church of St. John the Evangelist..has been illuminated with gas-lights for upwards of two years.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. i. 1 Gaslights flared in the shops with a haggard and unblest air.

1886 Petersons Mag. Jan. 61/2 Colonel Beresford came slowly into the circle of radiance formed by the solitary gaslight.

1922 E. Tobenkin Road viii. 103 When the child was asleep and her housework done, she would turn off the gaslight and sit by the window.

2010 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 21 Dec. Peter Donahue..built the first foundry in San Francisco. He also lit the city streets with gaslights.

2. Light produced by such a lamp or lamps.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > [noun] > gaslight

gaslight1808

the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > [noun] > gaslight or lamp

gaslight1808

gas lamp1814

gas1817

pronghorn1922

1808 Morning Post 7 Jan. Experiments with pure gas light.

1857 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 334 I had not been able to read then, by the gas-light, which dazzles my eyes.

1889 H. James in Atlantic Monthly May 629/2 ‘I have spent my life in cafés!’ she exclaimed. ‘They are warm in winter, and they are full of gaslight.’

1920 R. A. Freeman Savant's Vendetta i. 12 Pencils of cold blue daylight began to stream in through the chinks of the shutters and contend with the warm gaslight within.

2004 R. Chernow Titan (ed. 2) 260 The soft, shimmering glow of gaslight began illuminating many American cities in the 1880s.

Compounds

C1.

a. General use as a modifier, as in gaslight company, gaslight industry, etc.

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1808 Morning Chron. 29 June Inventor and Patentee of the Gas Light Art.

1826 W. Scott Malachi Malagrowther ii. 63 It would be supposing the blessed sun himself jealous of a gas-light manufactory.

1866 T. H. Leavitt Facts about Peat (ed. 2) 116 The experiments of Merle, a director of a gaslight company in France.

1905 Pop. Mech. July 751/2 The illustration shows how the gaslight flash signs are managed abroad.

1960 Changing Times Apr. 46/1 There's a renaissance going on in the gaslight industry.

1992 Amer. Hist. Illustr. Feb. 35/1 A gaslight company employee who claimed penmanship skill offered to re-ink the titling, text, and signatures on the parchment.

b. Originally and chiefly U.S. As a modifier, designating the era in which gaslight was in common use; spec. reminiscent, characteristic, or evocative of the (late) 19th cent. Frequently in gaslight era. Cf. Gaslight District n. at Compounds 2.

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1897 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 13 Feb. 5/1 The muddy-street and gas-light era has passed; it is a day of asphalt and electricity.

1930 Kingston (N.Y.) Daily Freeman 2 Jan. 13/2 Some people have electric-lighted houses but mentally they are groping about in the gaslight era.

1949 T. Taggart (title) Gaslight gaieties: a complete Gay Nineties variety show.

1952 Pop. Mech. July 39/2 Miniature antique gas buggies... Yes, everyone..gets a thrill out of constructing these ‘souvenirs of the gaslight years’.

1970 Star-News (Pasadena, Calif.) 17 Apr. 9/1 William Jennings Bryan, the silver-tongue orator of the Platte, told the forgotten man of the Gaslight Age that Wall Street couldn't crucify him on a cross of gold.

1985 Salina (Kansas) Jrnl. 29 Dec. (Entertainment section) 6/4 The shopping district of Pasadena's early merchants is being steadily renovated into something of a gaslight quarter of shops, restaurants and galleries called Old Town.

1995 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Amer. 17 Sept. (Stars Mag.) 3/3 Imagining yourself a gaslight-era gold baron walking by the turn-of-the-century mansions in Pacific Heights.

2004 M. Pye Taking Lives 205 He talked stage talk out of some Victorian gaslight story, because that was the English he knew.

c. Photography. As a modifier, designating a printing paper sufficiently insensitive that it can be used in weak artificial light, without the need for a darkroom, or designating the technique of printing photographs using such paper, as in gaslight paper, gaslight printing, etc.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > [noun] > printing > types of

sun painting1839

sun-printing1853

surface process1865

contact printing1876

silver-printing1878

pigment printing1879

bromide printing1885

printing out1889

screen process1890

gaslight printing1899

projection printing1923

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > processing and printing equipment > [noun] > paper

printing paper1593

photographic paper1840

gelatin paper1851

surface paper1851

print paper1858

Saxe paper1864

tissue1873

carbon paper1878

bromide paper1885

print-out paper1893

mezzotype1894

printing out paper1895

silver paper1898

gaslight paper1899

multigrade1940

contact sheet1959

1899 Yorks. Herald 18 Nov. 4/3 Dekko and Gravura gas light papers.

1906 R. C. Bayley Compl. Photographer 245 Incandescent gas is much more powerful than is needed for bromide work, but is an excellent light for gaslight printing.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 26 Oct. 13/2 The sulphide toning process used so much now to give warm brown tones to bromide prints is equally applicable to gaslight prints.

2004 Independent on Sunday 24 Oct. (Review Suppl.) 9/1 My father bought me a little Bakelite camera and a yellow-and-black Kodak contact-printer and a box of ‘gaslight paper’.

C2.

Gaslight District n. (also with lower-case initials) U.S. (a name for) the restored historic quarter of a town, city, etc.; spec. one characteristic or reminiscent of the (late) 19th cent.; (also occasionally) an area of a town or city built to resemble such a district.

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1962 Algona (Iowa) Advance 9 Aug. 5/1 We visited one such spot in St. Louis recently—a place called the ‘Living Room’ in the Gaslight district.

1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 19 Nov. viii. 10 The term ‘old-fashioned’, once a pejorative, now connotes substance and quality, and American cities are installing gaslight districts and trolleys.

1995 Sociol. Q. 36 642 Instances of historic district revitalization projects that revive environments of nineteenth-century ‘Main Street’ or waterfront life include..Seattle's Gaslight District.

2008 R. W. Domm Lake Michigan Backroads 77 Petoskey is noted for its downtown Gaslight District, a collection of shops, boutiques, and eateries that occupy well-kept historic buildings.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

gaslightv.

Brit.

/ˈɡaslʌɪt/, U.S.

/ˈɡæsˌlaɪt/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: English Gaslight.

Etymology: < the title of George Cukor's 1944 film Gaslight (a remake of Thorold Dickinson's 1940 version, in turn based on a play by Patrick Hamilton, first performed in 1938), in which a man psychologically manipulates his wife into believing that she is going insane. Compare gaslighting n.²The title refers to the husband's adjustment of their home's gaslights to flicker and dim at unexpected times. Compare gaslight n.

transitive. To manipulate (a person) by psychological means into questioning his or her own sanity. J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1994) I. 868/1 records an oral use from 1956.

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1961 A. S. C. Wallace Culture & Personality 183 It is also popularly believed to be possible to ‘gaslight’ a perfectly healthy person into psychosis by interpreting his own behavior to him as symptomatic of serious mental illness.

1965 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (The Grudge Match) (transcript of TV programme) 12 Nov. Duke. Maybe..we can get through to the Chief. Frankie. How do you mean? Duke. I mean psychological warfare... The old war on nerves. We'll gaslight him.

1977 Kennebec Jrnl. (Augusta, Maine) 22 Jan. 12/1 Starsky & Hutch begins as a straight story..then turns into a revenge tale, then who's gaslighting whom.

1987 National Lampoon Dec. 16 You gonna be gas-lighted by dese spooks.

2000 Spectator 1 Apr. 72/2 He ‘gaslighted’ Christina, humiliated and mentally tortured her, and shamelessly went after her money pretending to be investing it for her.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	gaslight
释义	gaslightn. Brit. /ˈɡaslʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈɡæsˌlaɪt/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: gas n.¹, light n.¹ Etymology: < gas n.¹ + light n.¹ Compare gas lighting n.¹ Now chiefly historical. 1. A lamp in which an incandescent mantle is heated by a jet of burning gas. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > types of crusiea1774 agitable lamp1788 gaslight1806 moaler1843 table lampc1849 bracket-burner1867 blast-lampa1884 Betty lamp1893 acetylene1899 quartz lamp1907 Etna lamp1912 palouser1918 1806 Morning Chron. 28 July (advt.) A general introduction of economical gas light [later issues lights]. 1815 F. Accum Pract. Treat. Gas-light (ed. 2) 145 The Church of St. John the Evangelist..has been illuminated with gas-lights for upwards of two years. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. i. 1 Gaslights flared in the shops with a haggard and unblest air. 1886 Petersons Mag. Jan. 61/2 Colonel Beresford came slowly into the circle of radiance formed by the solitary gaslight. 1922 E. Tobenkin Road viii. 103 When the child was asleep and her housework done, she would turn off the gaslight and sit by the window. 2010 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 21 Dec. Peter Donahue..built the first foundry in San Francisco. He also lit the city streets with gaslights. 2. Light produced by such a lamp or lamps. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > [noun] > gaslight gaslight1808 the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > [noun] > gaslight or lamp gaslight1808 gas lamp1814 gas1817 pronghorn1922 1808 Morning Post 7 Jan. Experiments with pure gas light. 1857 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 334 I had not been able to read then, by the gas-light, which dazzles my eyes. 1889 H. James in Atlantic Monthly May 629/2 ‘I have spent my life in cafés!’ she exclaimed. ‘They are warm in winter, and they are full of gaslight.’ 1920 R. A. Freeman Savant's Vendetta i. 12 Pencils of cold blue daylight began to stream in through the chinks of the shutters and contend with the warm gaslight within. 2004 R. Chernow Titan (ed. 2) 260 The soft, shimmering glow of gaslight began illuminating many American cities in the 1880s. Compounds C1. a. General use as a modifier, as in gaslight company, gaslight industry, etc. ΚΠ 1808 Morning Chron. 29 June Inventor and Patentee of the Gas Light Art. 1826 W. Scott Malachi Malagrowther ii. 63 It would be supposing the blessed sun himself jealous of a gas-light manufactory. 1866 T. H. Leavitt Facts about Peat (ed. 2) 116 The experiments of Merle, a director of a gaslight company in France. 1905 Pop. Mech. July 751/2 The illustration shows how the gaslight flash signs are managed abroad. 1960 Changing Times Apr. 46/1 There's a renaissance going on in the gaslight industry. 1992 Amer. Hist. Illustr. Feb. 35/1 A gaslight company employee who claimed penmanship skill offered to re-ink the titling, text, and signatures on the parchment. b. Originally and chiefly U.S. As a modifier, designating the era in which gaslight was in common use; spec. reminiscent, characteristic, or evocative of the (late) 19th cent. Frequently in gaslight era. Cf. Gaslight District n. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1897 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 13 Feb. 5/1 The muddy-street and gas-light era has passed; it is a day of asphalt and electricity. 1930 Kingston (N.Y.) Daily Freeman 2 Jan. 13/2 Some people have electric-lighted houses but mentally they are groping about in the gaslight era. 1949 T. Taggart (title) Gaslight gaieties: a complete Gay Nineties variety show. 1952 Pop. Mech. July 39/2 Miniature antique gas buggies... Yes, everyone..gets a thrill out of constructing these ‘souvenirs of the gaslight years’. 1970 Star-News (Pasadena, Calif.) 17 Apr. 9/1 William Jennings Bryan, the silver-tongue orator of the Platte, told the forgotten man of the Gaslight Age that Wall Street couldn't crucify him on a cross of gold. 1985 Salina (Kansas) Jrnl. 29 Dec. (Entertainment section) 6/4 The shopping district of Pasadena's early merchants is being steadily renovated into something of a gaslight quarter of shops, restaurants and galleries called Old Town. 1995 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Amer. 17 Sept. (Stars Mag.) 3/3 Imagining yourself a gaslight-era gold baron walking by the turn-of-the-century mansions in Pacific Heights. 2004 M. Pye Taking Lives 205 He talked stage talk out of some Victorian gaslight story, because that was the English he knew. c. Photography. As a modifier, designating a printing paper sufficiently insensitive that it can be used in weak artificial light, without the need for a darkroom, or designating the technique of printing photographs using such paper, as in gaslight paper, gaslight printing, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > [noun] > printing > types of sun painting1839 sun-printing1853 surface process1865 contact printing1876 silver-printing1878 pigment printing1879 bromide printing1885 printing out1889 screen process1890 gaslight printing1899 projection printing1923 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > processing and printing equipment > [noun] > paper printing paper1593 photographic paper1840 gelatin paper1851 surface paper1851 print paper1858 Saxe paper1864 tissue1873 carbon paper1878 bromide paper1885 print-out paper1893 mezzotype1894 printing out paper1895 silver paper1898 gaslight paper1899 multigrade1940 contact sheet1959 1899 Yorks. Herald 18 Nov. 4/3 Dekko and Gravura gas light papers. 1906 R. C. Bayley Compl. Photographer 245 Incandescent gas is much more powerful than is needed for bromide work, but is an excellent light for gaslight printing. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 26 Oct. 13/2 The sulphide toning process used so much now to give warm brown tones to bromide prints is equally applicable to gaslight prints. 2004 Independent on Sunday 24 Oct. (Review Suppl.) 9/1 My father bought me a little Bakelite camera and a yellow-and-black Kodak contact-printer and a box of ‘gaslight paper’. C2. Gaslight District n. (also with lower-case initials) U.S. (a name for) the restored historic quarter of a town, city, etc.; spec. one characteristic or reminiscent of the (late) 19th cent.; (also occasionally) an area of a town or city built to resemble such a district. ΚΠ 1962 Algona (Iowa) Advance 9 Aug. 5/1 We visited one such spot in St. Louis recently—a place called the ‘Living Room’ in the Gaslight district. 1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 19 Nov. viii. 10 The term ‘old-fashioned’, once a pejorative, now connotes substance and quality, and American cities are installing gaslight districts and trolleys. 1995 Sociol. Q. 36 642 Instances of historic district revitalization projects that revive environments of nineteenth-century ‘Main Street’ or waterfront life include..Seattle's Gaslight District. 2008 R. W. Domm Lake Michigan Backroads 77 Petoskey is noted for its downtown Gaslight District, a collection of shops, boutiques, and eateries that occupy well-kept historic buildings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). gaslightv. Brit. /ˈɡaslʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈɡæsˌlaɪt/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: English Gaslight. Etymology: < the title of George Cukor's 1944 film Gaslight (a remake of Thorold Dickinson's 1940 version, in turn based on a play by Patrick Hamilton, first performed in 1938), in which a man psychologically manipulates his wife into believing that she is going insane. Compare gaslighting n.²The title refers to the husband's adjustment of their home's gaslights to flicker and dim at unexpected times. Compare gaslight n. transitive. To manipulate (a person) by psychological means into questioning his or her own sanity. J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1994) I. 868/1 records an oral use from 1956. ΚΠ 1961 A. S. C. Wallace Culture & Personality 183 It is also popularly believed to be possible to ‘gaslight’ a perfectly healthy person into psychosis by interpreting his own behavior to him as symptomatic of serious mental illness. 1965 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (The Grudge Match) (transcript of TV programme) 12 Nov. Duke. Maybe..we can get through to the Chief. Frankie. How do you mean? Duke. I mean psychological warfare... The old war on nerves. We'll gaslight him. 1977 Kennebec Jrnl. (Augusta, Maine) 22 Jan. 12/1 Starsky & Hutch begins as a straight story..then turns into a revenge tale, then who's gaslighting whom. 1987 National Lampoon Dec. 16 You gonna be gas-lighted by dese spooks. 2000 Spectator 1 Apr. 72/2 He ‘gaslighted’ Christina, humiliated and mentally tortured her, and shamelessly went after her money pretending to be investing it for her. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1806v.1961
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