单词 | lighter |
释义 | lighter (once / 492 pages) 1n 2nv WORD FAMILY lighter: lighterage, lightered, lightering, lighters+/enlighten: enlightened, enlightening, enlightenment, enlightens/enlightened: enlightenedest, enlightenedly, unenlightened/enlightening: enlighteningly, unenlightening/enlightenment: enlightenments, unenlightenment/light: light-colored, lighted, lighten, lighter, lightest, lighting, lightless, lightly, lightness, lights, lightsome/lighted: unlighted/lighten: enlighten, lightened, lightening, lightens/lightening: lightenings/lighting: lightings/lightless: lightlessness/lightness: lightnesses/lightsome: lightsomely, lightsomeness, lightsomer, lightsomest USAGE EXAMPLESThree wards were evacuated for several hours after Hayden used a lighter to burn paper in a cabinet. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) One lighter side to the job, though, is the silly calls the three say they’ve answered over the years. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) Luckily, all those terrible holidays weren’t in vain, at least some saw the lighter side: The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1n a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire Syn|Hypo|Hyper igniter, ignitor firelighter (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire kindling, punk, spunk, tinder, touchwoodmaterial for starting a fire punksubstance that smolders when ignited; used to light fuses (especially fireworks) fuel a substance that can be consumed to produce energy 2n a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper igniter, ignitor, light cigar lighter, cigarette lighter, pocket lighter a lighter for cigars or cigarettes fuse, fusee, fuze, fuzee, primer, primingany igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant friction match, lucifer, matchlighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction matcha burning piece of wood or cardboard detonating fusea fuse containing an explosive fusee, fuzeea friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind kitchen matcha wooden friction match that will light on any granular surface; useful to light wood or gas stoves safety fusea slow-burning fuse consisting of a tube or cord filled or saturated with combustible matter; used to ignite detonators from a distance book matches, safety matcha paper match that strikes only on a specially prepared surface slow matchmatch or fuse made to burn slowly and evenly time-fusea fuse made to burn for a given time (especially to explode a bomb) device an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose 1n a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) Syn|Hypo|Hyper barge, flatboat, hoy dredger a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging houseboata barge that is designed and equipped for use as a dwelling pontoon(nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat) that serves as a dock or to support a bridge scowa barge carrying bulk materials in an open hold Norfolk wherry, wherrysailing barge used especially in East Anglia boat a small vessel for travel on water 2v transport in a flatbottom boat Hyper transport move something or somebody around; usually over long distances |
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