light
verb/laɪt/
/laɪt/
Lighted is also used for the past tense and past participle, especially in front of nouns.Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they light | /laɪt/ /laɪt/ |
| he / she / it lights | /laɪts/ /laɪts/ |
| past simple lit | /lɪt/ /lɪt/ |
| past participle lit | /lɪt/ /lɪt/ |
| -ing form lighting | /ˈlaɪtɪŋ/ /ˈlaɪtɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] light something to make something start to burn
- She lit a candle.
- Come in, I'll light a fire and you can get warmed up.
- to light a cigarette/cigar/pipe
- The gas lamps were lit.
- I put a lighted match to the letter and watched it burn.
- The fire is thought to have started when someone dropped a lit cigarette.
Extra Examples- She leaned across to light my cigarette.
- Steve took out a cigarette and lit it.
- She lit the copper lamp on her desk.
- The candles were lit.
- Light the fuse, then stand well back.
- Bonfires were lit on nearby hills.
- The procession approached carrying lighted torches.
- She brought a lighted taper for the candles.
- He lit the Olympic flame in Atlanta.
- Beacons were lit on the clifftops as a warning.
- Children should not be allowed to light fireworks.
- You need to keep the pilot light lit.
- They filled and lit kerosene lanterns.
- It was her job to light the stove in the morning.
- The Hindu tradition is that the eldest son must light his father's funeral pyre.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + light- attempt to
- try to
- pause to
- …
- [intransitive] (used especially in negative sentences) to start to burn
- The fire wouldn't light.
Extra Examples- The matches were damp and he couldn't get them to light.
- It took three attempts to get the gas to light.
- Her cigarette wouldn't light.
- If the pilot won't light, call an engineer.
- Don't return to a firework that doesn't light.
- The kindling lights easily.
- [transitive, usually passive] to give light to something or to a place
- be lit (by something) At night the hall was lit by candles.
- a dimly lit street
- a brightly lit room
- light something They use lanterns to light the room.
- the lighted windows of the house
Extra Examples- The stage was lit by bright spotlights.
- The entire scene was lit only by candles.
- The painting shows a kitchen dimly lit by a tallow lamp.
- The cellar was lit by a bulb dangling from a cord.
- a table lit by a single lamp
- a corridor lit by flaming torches
- a softly lit bedroom
- a beautifully lit scene
- a room harshly lit with a single bare bulb
- a series of starkly lit black and white photographs
- The film is so darkly lit it's hard to see what's going on.
- Make sure you always park your car in busy, well-lit streets.
- The room was dark now, lit only by a single candle.
- The dining room is lit by a floor-length window.
- The house was dark except for one lighted window upstairs.
- They installed gas apparatus to light the factory.
- (figurative) A gleam of humour momentarily lit his face.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- well
- badly
- barely
- …
- by
- with
- [transitive] light something (literary) to guide somebody with a light
- Our way was lit by a full moon.
start to burn
give light
Word Originverb ,Old English lēoht, līht (noun and adjective), līhtan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch licht and German Licht, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek leukos ‘white’ and Latin lux ‘light’.
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