lighter
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
- comparative form of light
- I prefer a lighter shade of pink.
lighter (plural lighters)
- One who, or that which, lights.
- a lighter of lamps
- A small, reusable handheld device for creating fire, especially for lighting cigarettes.
- Cigarette in mouth, he clutched his pockets in search of a lighter.
- French: briquet
- German: Feuerzeug, Zigarettenfeuerzeug, Zigarettenanzünder
- Italian: accendino
- Portuguese: acendedor, isqueiro
- Russian: зажига́лка
- Spanish: encendedor, briquet (Colombia), fosforera (Cuba), lighter (Panama), mechero (Spain), yesquero (Venezuela)
lighter (plural lighters)
- A flat-bottomed boat for carrying heavy loads across short distances (especially for canals or for loading or unloading larger boats).
- German: Leichter
- Russian: ли́хтер
lighter (lighters, present participle lightering; past and past participle lightered)
- To transfer cargo or fuel from a ship, lightening it to make its draft less or to make it easier to refloat.
- comparative form of light
- What happened? You look 10 lbs. lighter!
- I wish I'd thrown a lighter punch; he's out cold.
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