Lighter

Definition: Lighter

Lighter

Noun

1. A substance used to ignite or kindle a fire.

2. A device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires; "do you have a light?".

3. A boat with a flat bottom for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals).

Verb

1. Transport by lighter.

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

Date "lighter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Note: Lighter \Light"er\, noun. [D. ligter, from ligt light. See Lightnot heavy.]. (references)

Personal Care & Hotels

Economics

Shipping

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Synonyms: Lighter

Levity

Light as a feather, light as a thistle, light as air; lighter than air; rise like a balloon, float like a balloon.

Ship

Man of war; (combatant); transport, tender, storeship; merchant ship, merchantman; packet, liner; whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter; fishing boat, pilot boat; trawler, hulk; yacht; baggala; floating hotel, floating palace; ocean greyhound.

Crosswords: Lighter

No my eyes are lighter. The nose (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen)

On a lighter note, a Kwik-E-Mart clerk was brutally murdered last night (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Fix the cigarette lighter. (The Blues Brothers; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd ; John Landis)

Get me some lighter fluid, a waffle iron, and one of Dewey's stuffed animals, the furrier the better (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

I'm the new bartender over at the pub. Got my lighter, my rag, my empathy face (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Your burdens will be lighter (Crying in the Chapel; performing artist: Elvis Presley)

If I begin to feel lighter (Don'T Look Too Far; performing artist: Them)

Lighter Than Hare (1960)

The Lighter Side (1951)

Lighter Than Air (1950)

The Lighter That Failed (1927)

Lighter Than Air (1926)

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Books

• Devotions for Dieters: A 365-Day Guide to a Lighter You (reference)

• Keith Laumer: The Lighter Side (reference)

• Lighter Than Air: An Illustrated History of the Development of Hot-Air Balloons and Airships (reference)

• Southern Living our best recipes made lighter (reference)

• The Legend of the Lighter (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Lighter Cuisine (reference)

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Music

• Marie Barker Nelson: In a Lighter Touch (reference)

• The Lighter Side (reference)

• In a Lighter Touch (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• USB Charge/sync with cig Lighter Adapter for iPAQ 31/36/3700 Series (reference)

• Belkin Ipaq Sync Charger USB with Cigarette Lighter Adapter (reference)

• Micro Solutions Backpack Auto Adapter For Bantam Via Cigarette Lighter (reference)

• SUPERIOR COMMUNICATIONS 90528 OEM Ultra Saver Cigarette Lighter Adapter (reference)

• NUBY Car Lighter Adaptor-GBP (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Vehicle Lighter Adaptor (reference)

• ZIPPO 207MLB179 Lighter New York Yankees (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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This lesion has a dark brown, "pebbly" elevated surface against a lighter tan, macular background. The irregular, indistinct margin of the nevus helps to distinguish it from the small congenital-pattern nevus, which some dysplastic nevi closely resemble clinically. Its distinctive morphology, not its size (6 by 6 mm), identifies it as a dysplastic nevus. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Bacillus anthracis endospores are seen under phase contrast microscopy as lighter areas, i.e. "points of light", due to the fact that they are dehydrated, and therefore, more refractile. Credit: CDC.

Microgametocytes are smaller than macrogametocytes. They are oval and almost fill the erythrocyte. They tend to stain lighter than macrogametocytes and have a more diffuse nucleus. Credit: CDC.

Approaching winter's end. The sky is becoming lighter with spring twilight. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A "chata" lighter is used to transfer the catch from the fishing boat to the processing plant. Credit: Fisheries.

Seal-meat frame, lighter for transporting material from shore to ship, hut, and houses at St. Paul. Plate II, page 30. In: "Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska." By United States Treasury Department, Special Agents Division. 1898. Volume III. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Infrared imagery of the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf Stream. Lighter colors north of Florida Panhandle indicate extent of cold air swooping down from the north behind a cold front. Clouds in upper right corner show very cold tops (lighter) and indicate significant convection and possible thunderstorms. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Soybean oil gives a much lighter color vehicle for ink than a petroleum-based formula. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

View on the main deck looking aft from amidships, while she was under construction at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, on 4 June 1918. Her keel was laid on 20 November 1917 and she was launched on 29 June 1918. Note Freight Lighter # 53 in the center background. Credit: NAVY.

Taking on coal from a lighter, 1898. The original photograph was copyright 1898 by B.L. Singley, and published on a stereograph card by the Keystone View Company. Credit: NAVY.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

We are all lighter than water

Soften it as they would, their hearts were lighter.

The jet is lighter, more precious, more costly

My heart is ten times lighter than my looks

Tom looked down the line of tents, only a little lighter gray than the ground

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Health

They could be lighter. (references)

The flow could be lighter or heavier. (references)

Alcohol robs people of deep sleep and REM sleep and keeps them in the lighter stages of sleep. (references)

Business

Many new tools on the market are made of lighter material, are easier to use and more comfortable. (references)

They are also lighter than many stones, marble, etc., therefore, resulting in more efficient and lower shipping costs. (references)

Market trends in office furniture point to the incorporation of new materials to produce lighter, more mobile finished products. (references)

Civil Liberties

Kyrgyz Republic

The plaintiff appealed to the Supreme Court, which overturned the lighter sentence and returned the case to a lower court. (references)

Discrimination

Brazil

In February a court sentenced two alleged gang members to 21 years in prison, while a third suspect received a lighter sentence. (references)

Economic History

Australia

Air is used extensively for lighter cargo, small high-value items, and for urgent needs. (references)

Human Rights

Lebanon

The Military Court denied every recommendation for the death sentence and handed down lighter sentences in each case. (references)

Mexico

The Fray Bartolome de las Casas Human Rights Center in Chiapas reports that the police beat the three men and covered one individual's head with a plastic bag before burning him with a lighter. (references)

Belize

Balcarcel's report to the Human Rights Commission and the Guatemalan Embassy claimed that he was stripped, handcuffed, burned with a lighter and habanero peppers on his genitals, beaten with a stick, and forced to drink his own urine. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Keep your diet light - the more you eat, the more heat you generate in digesting it. The looser and lighter your clothing, the better. (references)

Women

Qatar

However, offenders who are citizens usually received lighter punishments than do foreigners. (references)

Egypt

In practice the courts sentence perpetrators of honor killings to lighter punishments than those convicted in other cases of murder. (references)

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Expressions using "lighter": become lighter ♦ becoming lighter ♦ cigar lighter ♦ cigarette lighter ♦ lighter aboard ship ♦ lighter carrier ♦ lighter fuel ♦ Lighter screw ♦ pocket lighter ♦ table lighter ♦ tank lighter. Additional references.

Beginning with "lighter": lighter-brown, lighter-camera, lighter-clad, lighter-coated, lighter-coloured, lighter-hearted, lighter-socket, lighter-than-air, lighter-than-air aircraft, lighter-than-air craft, lighter-used, lighter-weight.

Ending with "lighter": candle-lighter, cigarette-lighter, fire-lighter, gas-lighter, he ran like a lamp-lighter, lamp-lighter, like a lamp-lighter, table-lighter, up-lighter.

Afrikaans

aansteker, aanbrandsteker. (various references)

Albanian

lundër e sheshtë, shkarkoj anijen, ndezës (igniter, incendiary, primer), mbart me maunë, maunë (barge, flatboat, scow), çakmak (cigarette lighter, spitfire). (various references)

Arabic 

‏من ينير المصابيح بالشوارع, ‏ولاعة (spark plug, tinder box), ‏زورق (boat, pinnace), ‏صهريج (cistern, container, reservoir, tank), ‏الصندل مركب سطح القاع. (various references)

Bulgarian 

фитил (candlewick, fuse, match, portfire), запалка (cigarette lighter, fuse, fuze, portfire, squib), лихтер, помощен кораб, по-евтин (cheaper). (various references)

Catalan

encenedor. (various references)

Chinese 

駁運 (transport by lighter), 駁船 (barge), 比较轻. (various references)

Czech

zapalovaè (cigarette lighter, fuse). (various references)

Danish

lunte (fuse(of explosives), safety fuze), laegter (barge), taender (igniter, teeth), fængtråd (fuse), cigaerettaender (cigarette lighter). (various references)

Dutch

aansteker (cigarette lighter, igniter), vuurmaker. (various references)

Esperanto

fajrilo. (various references)

Farsi 

فندک , کبریت (Light, Match), قایق باری , گیرانه (Tinder), باقایق باری کالاحمل کردن . (various references)

Finnish

lotja (barge), sytytin (fuse, primer), proomu (barge, ferry). (various references)

French

péniche, briquet (cigarette lighter), allège. (various references)

German

feuerzeug (cigarette lighter, flue), leichter (barge, canter, easier, scow), schute (poke bonnet). (various references)

Greek 

αναπτήρας (cigarette lighter). (various references)

Hebrew 

מדלק, מצית (firebug, incendiary), מצת (igniter, spark plug), דוברה (barge, raft). (various references)

Hungarian

öngyújtó (cigarette lighter). (various references)

Indonesian

entengan (easier). (various references)

Italian

accendino (cigarette lighter, flue). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

荷足り (barge), 荷船 (freighter), 達磨船 (barge), ライセンス生産 (license production, lighting, rider, riding, riding breeches, writer, writing, writing bureau, writing desk), 廻船 (cargo vessel), 回船 (cargo vessel). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ライター (rider, writer), にたり (barge), にぶね (freighter), かいせん (battle, cargo vessel, circuit, convolution, engagement, game, itch, line, mange, match, naval battle, outbreak of war, re-election, revolution, rotation, scabies, starting a war), だるません (barge). (various references)

Korean 

더 가벼운. (various references)

Manx

lughteyder (charger, lighterman, loader), losseyder, eddrymmey, baatey lughtee (cargo boat). (various references)

Pig Latin

ighterlay.(various references)

Portuguese

isqueiro (candle-lighter), barcaça (barge, keel, scow, wherry), acendedor (lights). (various references)

Romanian

lampagiu (lamp-lighter), fitil (fuse, lint, match, squib, Wick), brichetã (briquette). (various references)

Russian 

шаланда (scow), зажигалка....более светлый, зажигалка (cigarette lighter, cigarette-lighter), лихтер (punt), плашкоут. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

upaljač (cigarette lighter, fuse, igniter, portfire, safety fuse), barža (barge, scow). (various references)

Spanish

mechero (burner, cigarette lighter, jet), encendedor (cigarette lighter, igniter), gabarra (barge, tender). (various references)

Swedish

lastpråm, lätta (alleviate, alleviated, clear, clear away, disencumber, ease, ease off, ease up, facilitate, get, lift, lighten, unburden), läktare (flat, gallery, grandstand, grand-stand, platform, rood loft, stand), tändare (igniter, lighten, portfire), pråm (barge, flat, flatboat, Hoy, pram, scow, wherry). (various references)

Thai

ไฟแช็ก, คนหรือเครื่องจุดไฟ, ขนส่งด้วยเรือ. (various references)

Turkish

salapurya (barge, scow), mavna (ark, barge, Hoy, scow), çakmak (be aware of, be ploughed, be plowed, beetle, cotton on to, drive, drive in, flash, flunk, gaslighter, ground, hammer, land, pitch, ram, root, rumble, spin, stick, strike, tack, tack down, twig, understand). (various references)

Turkmen 

яeсleюmek (become easier), яeсlemek (become easier). (various references)

Ukrainian

той, що запалює, запальничка (cigarette lighter), запал (eagerness, fervor, fervour, fuse, fusee, fuze, ignition, mettle, passion, primer, squib, zeal, zest), ліхтер, перевозити ліхтером. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thuyền bốc dỡ hàng, sà lan (scow), người thắp đèn cái bật lửa. (various references)

Yucatec

u xikin k'aak'. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "lighter": lighterage, lighterages, lightered, lightering, lighters. (additional references)

Words ending with "lighter": blighter, candlelighter, delighter, highlighter, lamplighter, moonlighter, plighter, slighter. (additional references)

Words containing "lighter": blighters, candlelighters, delighters, highlighters, lamplighters, moonlighters, plighters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lighter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alighiero, eighter, flighter, highter, Lehrter, Lichtwer, Lightup, mighter, nighter, sighter. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: relight.

-1 letter: lither, regilt.

-2 letters: eight, girth, grith, ither, legit, liger, light, liter, lithe, litre, relit, right, their, thirl, tiger, tiler.

-3 letters: elhi, gelt, gilt, girl, girt, grit, heil, heir, herl, hilt, hire, lehr, lier, lire, lite, riel, rile, rite, thir, tier, tile, tire, tirl, trig.

-4 letters: erg, eth, gel, get, ghi, gie, git, her, het.

+1 letter: blighter, lighters, litharge, plighter, regolith, relights, slighter, thirlage.

+2 letters: blighters, delighter, earthling, firelight, flightier, ghastlier, ghostlier, haltering, lathering, lengthier, lethargic, lightener, lightered, litharges, overlight, plighters, preflight, regoliths, relighted, sightlier, thirlages.

+3 letters: blathering, blethering, blithering, delighters, earthlight, earthlings, firelights, holstering, leathering, lethargies, lighteners, lighterage, lightering, overflight, overlights, philtering, reclothing, relighting, rheologist, sheltering, slathering, slithering, superlight, telphering, theurgical, thimblerig, tigerishly.