Light Up

Definition: Light Up

Light Up

Verb

1. Start to burn with a bright flame; "The coal in the BBQ grill finally lit up.".

2. Make lighter or brighter; "This lamp lightens the room a bit".

3. Become clear; "The sky cleared after the storm.".

4. Ignite; "The sky lit up quickly above the raging volcano.".

5. Begin to smoke; "After the meal, some of the diners lit up".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Light Up

Cheerfulness

Verb: be cheerful; Adjective: have the mind at ease, smile, put a good face upon, keep up one's spirits; view the bright side of the picture, view things en couleur de rose; ridentem dicere virum, cheer up, brighten up, light up, bear up; chirp, take heart, cast away care, drive dull care away, perk up.

Excitation

Verb: excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame.

Crosswords: Light Up

The next woman takes me on's gonna light up like a pinball machine and pay off in silver dollars! (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben)

Wonderful! And while we're at it, we can light up a doobie and watch porn! (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

John, whenever something comes into our proximity that has to do with the unknown, your eyes light up like two tiny suns. (Babylon 5: Thirdspace; writing credit: J. Michael Straczynski)

You're gonna light up Broadway. (Spider-Man; writing credit: Stan Lee; Steve Ditko)

I mean, I hit the remote with it, light up with it, relieve a little tension (Idle Hands; writing credit: Terri Hughes; Ron Milbauer)

And he's quick with a joke or to light up your smoke ("Piano Man"; performing artist: Billy Joel)

How you light up every second of the day (Something About The Way You Look Tonight; performing artist: Elton John)

Now who will light up the darkness (Throwing It All Away; performing artist: Genesis)

'Cause when the cars and the signs and the street lights light up the town, (SOMEBODY'S BABY; performing artist: Jackson Browne)

Light up like a candle burnin when he calls me up (Still; performing artist: Macy Gray)

Light Up the Sky! (1960)

You Light Up My Life (1977)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Year of Romance: Twelve Months of Romantic Ideas to Light Up Your Love Life (reference)

• Light Fantastic: Light Up Your Life: 25 Illuminating Ideas (Designer Details) (reference)

• Light Up Your Mind with Self Concepts (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• In Dub: Light Up Your Chalice (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Fireworks of Star Formation Light Up a Galaxy. Credit: NASA.

There was some light up there last night, David--. Credit: Library of Congress.

Light up the sky. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fiery trees and silver flowers light up the night. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Then a sudden inspiration seemed to come upon her and light up her face with a strange sweet smile.

A modest taper lighted, or one might almost say, pretended to light up the parlour.

After early nightfall the yellow lamps would light up, here and there, the squalid quarter of the brothels.

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Health

Electron beams, or e-beams, are produced in a different way. The e-beam is a stream of high energy electrons, propelled out of an electron gun. This electron gun apparatus is a larger version of the device in the back of a TV tube that propels electrons into the TV screen at the front of the tube, making it light up. This electron beam generator can be simply switched on or off. No radioactivity is involved. (references)

Business

The researchers built a wind turbine on a rooftop, which together with a solar farm system, generated enough energy to light up the corridors of a five-storey building. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "light up": to light up. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏أشعل (burn, enkindle, fan the flame, fire, ignite, inflame, kindle, light, lit, rekindle, switch on, torch, turn on). (various references)

Bulgarian 

осенявам (dawn on), оживявам се (perk), запалвам лампите, запалвам (enthuse, fire, have a smoke, ignite, kick over, kindle, light, start, start up, turn on, warm). (various references)

Czech

rozsvítit se (flare, go on), osvìtlit (clarify, elucidate, illuminate, light). (various references)

Danish

tandes (to come on, to light up), opstart (blowing in, bootstrap, lighting up, start-up, to blow in, to light up), begynde at lyse (to come on, to light up). (various references)

Dutch

overschýnen (shine upon), beschýnen (shine upon), belichten (demonstrate, exhibit, expose, illuminate, light, shine upon). (various references)

Esperanto

prilumi (shine upon). (various references)

Finnish

valaista (elucidate, illuminate, illustrate, light, shine, throw light). (various references)

French

illuminer. (various references)

German

aufleuchten (brighten, flare, flash, gleam, to flash). (various references)

Greek 

ανάβω (go on 1, go on 2, ignite, kindle, light, lit, switch on, turn on). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"�"ליק (burn, ignite, kindle, light, set light to, switch on). (various references)

Hungarian

lámpát gyújt (to light up), rágyújt (to light a cigarette, to light up), motorbegyújtás, felderül (brighten up, to brighten, to light up). (various references)

Italian

illuminare (enlighten, illuminate, illumine, light, lighten). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

輝かす (to brighten, to light up), 点ける (to light up, to switch on, to turn on). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つける (to add, to affix, to append, to apply, to appraise, to attach, to bring alongside, to dip in, to establish, to fasten, to follow, to furnish, to give, to glue, to join, to keep, to keep a diary, to light up, to load, to make an entry, to moisten, to pickle, to place, to put, to put on, to set, to sew on, to shadow, to soak, to stick, to switch on, to turn on, to wear), かがやかす (to brighten, to light up). (various references)

Pig Latin

ightlay upay

Portuguese

ligar (band, bind, binding, bond, call, catenate, colligate, connect, connect up, couple, gear, incorporate, indenture, inosculate, interlink, interlock, interweave, join, joint, knit, ligature, link, mingle, plug, plug in, set, splice, switch, switch on, tie, tie up, turn on, unite, wed, yoke), arranque do forno (blowing in, lighting up, to blow in, to light up). (various references)

Romanian

lumina (appear, beacon, brighten, burn, clarify, comprehend, enlighten, explain, illuminate, lamp, light, lighten, shine, teach, understand), da foc la (fire, inflame, kindle, light, set fire to), aprinde (animate, beacon, blush, enkindle, excite, fan, fire, heat, ignite, inflame, kindle, light, redden, rot, shine, strike). (various references)

Russian 

разжечь (kindle, rekindle), осветить, засветиться, зажигать свет. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razvedriti se (brighten up, clear up), rasvetliti (illuminate, light upon), pripaliti (kindle, light), paljenje (ignition), ozariti (gild, kindle), ozarenje, osvetliti (illuminate, illumine, kindle, light, lighten, set light to, shine, spotlight), obasjati (illuminate, lighten). (various references)

Spanish

iluminarse (light), iluminar (enlighten, illuminate, illumine, light, lighten, shine on, spotlight), encender un cigarrillo, encender el cigarrillo, encender (burn, fire, ignite, illuminate, inflame, kindle, light, lighter, put on, set light to, switch on, turn on), alumbrarse (light), alumbrar (illuminate, light, lighten). (various references)

Swedish

lysa upp (brighten up, illumine, kindle, light, lighten), tända (catch fire, fire, ignite, kindle, light, spark, strike, turn on), eklärera (illuminate), belysa (elucidate, illuminate, illumine, illustrate, irradiate, light, lighten). (various references)

Turkish

yanmak (be hot, broil, burn, burn out, fire, fuse, fuze, glow, go on, inflame, kindle, light, scorch, smart, sting, swelter, take, tan, toast), yakmak (bite, burn, cauterize, fire, flash, ignite, incinerate, kindle, light, put on, scathe, scorch, sear, set on fire, turn on), sevindirmek (delight, do smb. a pleasure, elate, gladden, gratify, hearten, make happy, make one's day, rejoice), parlamak (beam, blaze, blink, coruscate, flare up, flash, fulminate, glare, gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, lighten, loose off at, shine, shine out, smile, sparkle, twinkle), neşelendirmek (amuse, animate, brace, brace up, brighten, buck up, cheer, cheer up, elate, enliven, exhilarate, hearten, inspirit, light, liven, liven up, quicken, revive, spirit, spirit up, vivify), aydınlatmak (brighten, charge, civilize, clear, clear up, clue, dissolve, elicit, elucidate, enlighten, enucleate, flash, flash on, illume, illuminate, illumine, irradiate, let daylight into smth., light, lighten, post, rake up, set light to, shine upon, solve, unravel), aydınlanmak (become clear, brighten, clarify, clear up, dawn, illuminate, light, lighten), ışımak (beam, blaze, flare, gleam, light, radiate, Ray, shine, sparkle), ışık saçmak (beam, burn, flare, irradiate, light, lighten, radiate, Ray, shine, sparkle). (various references)

Ukrainian

осяяти, запалювати (enkindle, fire, fuze, ignite, inflame, kindle, prime, spark). (various references)

exclarare, fulgura, fulgurans, fulgurantis, fulgurare, inlustra, inlustrabis, inlustrabo, inlustratione, inlustrem, inlustret, limina. (various references)

Misspellings

"Light Up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lightup. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: uplight.

-1 letter: plight.

-2 letters: guilt, light, tulip, uplit.

-3 letters: gilt, glut, gulp, hilt, iglu, litu, phut, pith, plug, pugh, puli, thug.

-4 letters: ghi, gip, git, gul, gut, hip, hit, hug, hup, hut, lip, lit, lug, phi, pht, pig, pit, piu, pug, pul, put, til, tip, tug, tui, tup, ugh.

-5 letters: hi, it, li, pi, ti, uh, up.

+1 letter: uplights.

+2 letters: uplighted, uprightly.

+3 letters: sprightful, sulphating, superlight, uplighting.

+5 letters: sprightfully, upholstering.