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verb
noun
- fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain
- Powder of other material.
- Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
- (US standards of identity) The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.
noun
- Fine powder; flour.
- (Scotland) Zest, energy; pluck; sagacity; quickness of apprehension; gumption; spirit; mettle.
- The powder or finest part of ground malt.
- (mining) Smitham.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England) Ore small enough to pass through the wire bottom of a sieve.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England) A layer of clay or shale between two beds of coal.
verb
noun
- baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
- brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.
- An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
- (figuratively) A frothy foam.
- A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
- A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
- The resulting infection, candidiasis.
- a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
- any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
adj
- (baking) Of flour: fine, and consisting mostly of the inner part of the endosperm of the grain from which it is milled.
- (botany) Of a branch, leaf, etc.: outspread; also, spreading at right angles to the axis.
- (by extension, figuratively) To which someone has, or seems to have, a claim or an exclusive claim; also, inventive or particularly suited for.
- Explicit and obvious.
- (medicine, veterinary medicine) Of an infection: in the phase when the organism causing it can be detected by clinical tests.
- Conspicuous; open; unconcealed.
- (medicine) Open, unobstructed; specifically, especially of the ductus arteriosus or foramen ovale in the heart, having not closed as would have happened in normal development.
- (law) Protected by a legal patent.
- (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage
- clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
noun
- A declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period.
- (by extension) A product in respect of which a patent (sense 1.2.2) has been obtained.
- An official document granting an appointment, privilege, or right, or some property or title; letters patent.
- (US, historical) A specific grant of ownership of a piece of real property; a land patent.
- (gambling) The combination of seven bets on three selections, offering a return even if only one bet comes in.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of patent leather (“a varnished, high-gloss leather typically used for accessories and shoes”).
- A characteristic or quality that one possesses; in particular (hyperbolic) as if exclusively; a monopoly.
- A licence or (formal) permission to do something.
- (originally) A grant of a monopoly over the manufacture, sale, and use of goods.
- an official document granting a right or privilege
- a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
verb
- (US, historical) To obtain (over a piece of real property) a specific grant of ownership.
- To (successfully) register (a new invention) with a government agency to obtain the sole privilege of its manufacture, sale, and use for a specified period.
- (transitive, figuratively) To be closely associated or identified with (something); to monopolize.
- obtain a patent for
- grant rights to; grant a patent for
- make open to sight or notice
noun
- flour or meal or grain used in baking bread
- food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
- Bread or breadlike baked goods of any sort.
- Any of the ingredients for making bread, especially as commodities in trade and especially the principal ones, namely, flour and meal or the grain with which to mill it (such as wheat, oats, rye, or any other cereal grain).
noun
- a dough of flour and water and shortening
- any of various baked foods made of dough or batter
- (uncountable, culinary industry) Desserts of all kinds, whether or not these incorporate the baked item made from flour and fat, or that section of a kitchen that prepares these.
- (uncountable) The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.
- (uncountable) The food group formed by the various kinds of pastries.
- (countable) A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.
- (uncountable) The act or art of making pastry.
noun
- (cooking) A mixture of grains softened in water which is added to bread dough.
- A kind of perforated hose used to distribute drips of water to a number of plants.
- One who, or that which, soaks.
- (Canada, slang) The experience of stepping in a deep puddle and having one's foot become completely engulfed in water.
- (slang) A person suffering from alcoholism.
- A kind of knitted woollen diaper.
- a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
- a heavy rain
noun
- A baker’s kneading trough.
- That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
- A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.ᵂ
- (textiles) A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
- (chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.
- (military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
- An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
- Bracken (Pteridium spp.).
- (now historical) A type of torture instrument.
- A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
- (agriculture) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth after ploughing; a drag.
- (figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
- A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
- (engineering) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
- A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
- A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing it.
- A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.ᵂ
- Any fern in the genus Pteris.
- The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
- any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
- a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
- large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
- anything that slows or hinders a process
- an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
verb
adj
- (of grains) Containing a whitish liquid, juicy.
- (color science, informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.
- (of a drink) Containing (an especially large amount of) milk.
- Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk.
- (colloquial) Immature, childish.
- (colloquial) Cowardly.
- resembling milk in color; not clear
verb
noun
- a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
- A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
- (US military slang, countable) Clipping of doughboy (“an infantryman”).
- (slang) Money.
- informal terms for money
noun
- bread made with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour
- Bread made from white flour.
- (idiomatic, often) A storebought, mass-produced, inexpensive type of such bread that is very soft and is usually in the Pullman loaf shape.
- (chiefly US, slang, often derogatory, ethnic slur) A middle-class white person (person of European descent), or a person who 'acts white'.
adj
noun
- A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.
- (Scotland, Northwestern US, British Columbia) Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
- (dialectal) Dough.
- (British) A mixture of coal and rock.
- A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums or (in the Bahamas) guavas.
- (US, slang) The buttocks.
- (baseball, slang) An error.
- (slang) The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.
- Alternative form of daf (“type of drum”).
- Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite.
- Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.
- Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit; a worthless thing; a defective thing.
- a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron
adj
verb
adj
- (cooking) Not heavy or soggy; spongy; well raised.
- Slight, not forceful or intense; small in amount or intensity.
- Gentle; having little force or momentum.
- Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
- Free from burden or impediment; unencumbered.
- Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
- With low viscosity.
- (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
- Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma.
- Having little or relatively little actual weight; not heavy; not cumbrous or unwieldy.
- (military) Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
- (rail transport, of a locomotive or consist of locomotives) Without any piece of equipment attached or attached only to a caboose.
- Cheerful.
- Easy to endure or perform.
- Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure.
- (nautical, of a ship) Riding high because of no cargo; by extension, pertaining to a ship which is light.
- Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
- Lightly built; typically designed for speed or small loads.
- Fast; nimble.
- Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
- Of short or insufficient weight; weighing less than the legal, standard, or proper amount; clipped or diminished.
- Having little weight as compared with bulk; of little density or specific gravity.
- Easily interrupted by stimulation.
- Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
- of comparatively little physical weight or density
- psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles
- marked by temperance in indulgence
- of little intensity or power or force
- easily assimilated in the alimentary canal; not rich or heavily seasoned
- not great in degree or quantity or number
- moving easily and quickly; nimble
- (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
- intended primarily as entertainment; not serious or profound
- (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent
- designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- weak and likely to lose consciousness
- (physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average
- (of sleep) easily disturbed
- silly or trivial
- having relatively few calories
- characterized by or emitting light
- demanding little effort; not burdensome
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
- having little importance
- (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency
- of the military or industry; using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment
- very thin and insubstantial
adv
noun
- (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; opposed to shade.
- A traffic light, or (by extension) an intersection controlled by traffic lights.
- A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
- (crosswording) The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
- (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
- (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
- See lights (“lungs”).
- (by extension) Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye or in nearby ranges (infrared or ultraviolet radiation).
- A lightbulb or similar light-emitting device, regardless of whether it is lit.
- (slang) A cigarette lighter.
- A flame or something used to create fire.
- (military, historical) A member of the light cavalry.
- The brightness of the eye or eyes.
- A window in architecture, carriage design, or motor car design: either the opening itself or the window pane of glass that fills it, if any.
- (figurative) Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
- (by extension, less commonly) Electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength.
- A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
- (countable) A source of illumination.
- (physics, uncountable) Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye (about 400–750 nanometers): visible light.
- Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
- (Australia, uncountable) A low-alcohol lager.
- The power of perception by vision: eyesight (sightedness; vision).
- A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
- a particular perspective or aspect of a situation
- the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light
- the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures
- a person regarded very fondly
- a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
- a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination
- an illuminated area
- mental understanding as an enlightening experience
- having abundant light or illumination
- a visual warning signal
- (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
- merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance
- any device serving as a source of illumination
- public awareness
verb
- (transitive) To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark.
- (by extension) To leave; to depart.
- (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter
- To find by chance.
- (transitive) To start (a fire).
- To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
- To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice
- (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning.
- To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
- (transitive, pinball) To make (a bonus) available to be collected by hitting a target, and thus light up the feature light corresponding to that bonus to indicate its availability.
- (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
- begin to smoke
- introduce light into
- alight from (a horse)
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- start or maintain a fire in
- cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
- to come to rest, settle
noun
adj
verb
adj
- That has been cooked by baking.
- (slang) Inebriated: drunk, high, or stoned.
- (slang, derogatory, figuratively) Of a person: crazy, insane.
- Hungover.
- Lastingly brain-damaged from drug use (either truly or allegedly).
- dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
- (bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven)
verb
noun
- Fine powder; flour.
- (Scotland) Zest, energy; pluck; sagacity; quickness of apprehension; gumption; spirit; mettle.
- The powder or finest part of ground malt.
- (mining) Smitham.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England) Ore small enough to pass through the wire bottom of a sieve.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England) A layer of clay or shale between two beds of coal.
noun
- flour or meal or grain used in baking bread
- food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
- Bread or breadlike baked goods of any sort.
- Any of the ingredients for making bread, especially as commodities in trade and especially the principal ones, namely, flour and meal or the grain with which to mill it (such as wheat, oats, rye, or any other cereal grain).
noun
- a dough of flour and water and shortening
- any of various baked foods made of dough or batter
- (uncountable, culinary industry) Desserts of all kinds, whether or not these incorporate the baked item made from flour and fat, or that section of a kitchen that prepares these.
- (uncountable) The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.
- (uncountable) The food group formed by the various kinds of pastries.
- (countable) A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.
- (uncountable) The act or art of making pastry.
noun
- (cooking) A mixture of grains softened in water which is added to bread dough.
- A kind of perforated hose used to distribute drips of water to a number of plants.
- One who, or that which, soaks.
- (Canada, slang) The experience of stepping in a deep puddle and having one's foot become completely engulfed in water.
- (slang) A person suffering from alcoholism.
- A kind of knitted woollen diaper.
- a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
- a heavy rain
noun
- A baker’s kneading trough.
- That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
- A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.ᵂ
- (textiles) A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
- (chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.
- (military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
- An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
- Bracken (Pteridium spp.).
- (now historical) A type of torture instrument.
- A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
- (agriculture) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth after ploughing; a drag.
- (figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
- A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
- (engineering) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
- A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
- A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing it.
- A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.ᵂ
- Any fern in the genus Pteris.
- The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
- any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
- a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
- large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
- anything that slows or hinders a process
- an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
verb
noun
- bread made with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour
- Bread made from white flour.
- (idiomatic, often) A storebought, mass-produced, inexpensive type of such bread that is very soft and is usually in the Pullman loaf shape.
- (chiefly US, slang, often derogatory, ethnic slur) A middle-class white person (person of European descent), or a person who 'acts white'.
adj
noun
- A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.
- (Scotland, Northwestern US, British Columbia) Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
- (dialectal) Dough.
- (British) A mixture of coal and rock.
- A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums or (in the Bahamas) guavas.
- (US, slang) The buttocks.
- (baseball, slang) An error.
- (slang) The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.
- Alternative form of daf (“type of drum”).
- Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite.
- Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.
- Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit; a worthless thing; a defective thing.
- a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron
adj
verb
noun
adj
verb
verb
noun
- a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
- A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
- (US military slang, countable) Clipping of doughboy (“an infantryman”).
- (slang) Money.
- informal terms for money
verb
noun
- fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain
- Powder of other material.
- Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
- (US standards of identity) The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.
verb
noun
- baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
- brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.
- An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
- (figuratively) A frothy foam.
- A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
- A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
- The resulting infection, candidiasis.
- a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
- any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
verb
noun
- a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
- A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
- (US military slang, countable) Clipping of doughboy (“an infantryman”).
- (slang) Money.
- informal terms for money
adj
- (baking) Of flour: fine, and consisting mostly of the inner part of the endosperm of the grain from which it is milled.
- (botany) Of a branch, leaf, etc.: outspread; also, spreading at right angles to the axis.
- (by extension, figuratively) To which someone has, or seems to have, a claim or an exclusive claim; also, inventive or particularly suited for.
- Explicit and obvious.
- (medicine, veterinary medicine) Of an infection: in the phase when the organism causing it can be detected by clinical tests.
- Conspicuous; open; unconcealed.
- (medicine) Open, unobstructed; specifically, especially of the ductus arteriosus or foramen ovale in the heart, having not closed as would have happened in normal development.
- (law) Protected by a legal patent.
- (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage
- clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
noun
- A declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period.
- (by extension) A product in respect of which a patent (sense 1.2.2) has been obtained.
- An official document granting an appointment, privilege, or right, or some property or title; letters patent.
- (US, historical) A specific grant of ownership of a piece of real property; a land patent.
- (gambling) The combination of seven bets on three selections, offering a return even if only one bet comes in.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of patent leather (“a varnished, high-gloss leather typically used for accessories and shoes”).
- A characteristic or quality that one possesses; in particular (hyperbolic) as if exclusively; a monopoly.
- A licence or (formal) permission to do something.
- (originally) A grant of a monopoly over the manufacture, sale, and use of goods.
- an official document granting a right or privilege
- a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
verb
- (US, historical) To obtain (over a piece of real property) a specific grant of ownership.
- To (successfully) register (a new invention) with a government agency to obtain the sole privilege of its manufacture, sale, and use for a specified period.
- (transitive, figuratively) To be closely associated or identified with (something); to monopolize.
- obtain a patent for
- grant rights to; grant a patent for
- make open to sight or notice
adj
- (of grains) Containing a whitish liquid, juicy.
- (color science, informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.
- (of a drink) Containing (an especially large amount of) milk.
- Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk.
- (colloquial) Immature, childish.
- (colloquial) Cowardly.
- resembling milk in color; not clear
adj
- (cooking) Not heavy or soggy; spongy; well raised.
- Slight, not forceful or intense; small in amount or intensity.
- Gentle; having little force or momentum.
- Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
- Free from burden or impediment; unencumbered.
- Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
- With low viscosity.
- (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
- Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma.
- Having little or relatively little actual weight; not heavy; not cumbrous or unwieldy.
- (military) Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
- (rail transport, of a locomotive or consist of locomotives) Without any piece of equipment attached or attached only to a caboose.
- Cheerful.
- Easy to endure or perform.
- Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure.
- (nautical, of a ship) Riding high because of no cargo; by extension, pertaining to a ship which is light.
- Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
- Lightly built; typically designed for speed or small loads.
- Fast; nimble.
- Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
- Of short or insufficient weight; weighing less than the legal, standard, or proper amount; clipped or diminished.
- Having little weight as compared with bulk; of little density or specific gravity.
- Easily interrupted by stimulation.
- Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
- of comparatively little physical weight or density
- psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles
- marked by temperance in indulgence
- of little intensity or power or force
- easily assimilated in the alimentary canal; not rich or heavily seasoned
- not great in degree or quantity or number
- moving easily and quickly; nimble
- (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
- intended primarily as entertainment; not serious or profound
- (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent
- designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- weak and likely to lose consciousness
- (physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average
- (of sleep) easily disturbed
- silly or trivial
- having relatively few calories
- characterized by or emitting light
- demanding little effort; not burdensome
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
- having little importance
- (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency
- of the military or industry; using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment
- very thin and insubstantial
adv
noun
- (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; opposed to shade.
- A traffic light, or (by extension) an intersection controlled by traffic lights.
- A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
- (crosswording) The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
- (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
- (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
- See lights (“lungs”).
- (by extension) Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye or in nearby ranges (infrared or ultraviolet radiation).
- A lightbulb or similar light-emitting device, regardless of whether it is lit.
- (slang) A cigarette lighter.
- A flame or something used to create fire.
- (military, historical) A member of the light cavalry.
- The brightness of the eye or eyes.
- A window in architecture, carriage design, or motor car design: either the opening itself or the window pane of glass that fills it, if any.
- (figurative) Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
- (by extension, less commonly) Electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength.
- A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
- (countable) A source of illumination.
- (physics, uncountable) Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye (about 400–750 nanometers): visible light.
- Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
- (Australia, uncountable) A low-alcohol lager.
- The power of perception by vision: eyesight (sightedness; vision).
- A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
- a particular perspective or aspect of a situation
- the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light
- the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures
- a person regarded very fondly
- a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
- a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination
- an illuminated area
- mental understanding as an enlightening experience
- having abundant light or illumination
- a visual warning signal
- (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
- merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance
- any device serving as a source of illumination
- public awareness
verb
- (transitive) To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark.
- (by extension) To leave; to depart.
- (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter
- To find by chance.
- (transitive) To start (a fire).
- To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
- To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice
- (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning.
- To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
- (transitive, pinball) To make (a bonus) available to be collected by hitting a target, and thus light up the feature light corresponding to that bonus to indicate its availability.
- (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
- begin to smoke
- introduce light into
- alight from (a horse)
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- start or maintain a fire in
- cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
- to come to rest, settle
adj
- That has been cooked by baking.
- (slang) Inebriated: drunk, high, or stoned.
- (slang, derogatory, figuratively) Of a person: crazy, insane.
- Hungover.
- Lastingly brain-damaged from drug use (either truly or allegedly).
- dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
- (bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven)