英语词汇“lighter”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

lighter1

/ˈlʌɪtə

noun

A device that produces a small flame, especially one used to light cigarettes: he lit a cigarette with his gold lighter...

Open flames, cigarettes, matches, lighters, pilot lights, or electric sparks can cause the chemicals in the paint strippers to suddenly catch fire.
Then gently warm the metal sleeve with a small flame from a cigarette lighter and pull the ring off using a pair of pliers.
It is believed a flame from a cigarette lighter ignited oxygen at the man's bedside.

Rhymes

lighter2

/ˈlʌɪtə

noun

A flat-bottomed barge or other unpowered boat used to transfer goods to and from ships in harbour.In watercraft delivery, cases of MREs are loaded onto lighters, flat-bottomed boats, or barges and transported from port to port....

Such lighters, usually flat-bottomed barges, were used in lightening or loading and unloading vessels that could not be wharfed, or where harbour facilities were underdeveloped or too small.
On the Gallipoli peninsula, seaborne landings were made in 1915, despite the fact that no specially designed craft were available, troops transferring from seagoing vessels to lighters to be ferried ashore.

Derivatives

lighterman

/ˈlʌɪtəm(ə)n

/ noun (plural lightermen) ...

Before the docks were built lightermen ferried goods from ships in midstream to the river quays.
The story of the Thames is a very rich one and the watermen and lightermen have played a large part in it.
The lightermen live on as the masters of the waste disposal vessels and dredgers you see on the Thames today.

Origin

Late Middle English: from light² (in the sense 'unload'), or from Middle Low German luchter.

单词	lighter
释义	lighter1 /ˈlʌɪtə / noun A device that produces a small flame, especially one used to light cigarettes: he lit a cigarette with his gold lighter... Open flames, cigarettes, matches, lighters, pilot lights, or electric sparks can cause the chemicals in the paint strippers to suddenly catch fire. Then gently warm the metal sleeve with a small flame from a cigarette lighter and pull the ring off using a pair of pliers. It is believed a flame from a cigarette lighter ignited oxygen at the man's bedside. Rhymes all-nighter, biter, blighter, fighter, igniter, inciter, indicter, inviter, mitre (US miter), overnighter, reciter, righter, sighter, smiter, writer lighter2 /ˈlʌɪtə / noun A flat-bottomed barge or other unpowered boat used to transfer goods to and from ships in harbour.In watercraft delivery, cases of MREs are loaded onto lighters, flat-bottomed boats, or barges and transported from port to port.... Such lighters, usually flat-bottomed barges, were used in lightening or loading and unloading vessels that could not be wharfed, or where harbour facilities were underdeveloped or too small. On the Gallipoli peninsula, seaborne landings were made in 1915, despite the fact that no specially designed craft were available, troops transferring from seagoing vessels to lighters to be ferried ashore. Derivatives lighterman /ˈlʌɪtəm(ə)n / noun (plural lightermen) ... Before the docks were built lightermen ferried goods from ships in midstream to the river quays. The story of the Thames is a very rich one and the watermen and lightermen have played a large part in it. The lightermen live on as the masters of the waste disposal vessels and dredgers you see on the Thames today. Origin Late Middle English: from light² (in the sense 'unload'), or from Middle Low German luchter.
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