Light
//laɪt//
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The word "light" can be used as noun, adjective, adjective, verb, proper noun, adverb and adverb.
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Capable Of
age paper carry information go through windows guide people through dark areas hang from ceiling illuminate make humans feel comfortable mean opposite of heavy mean to land mean visible electromagnetic waves polarised reflects from glass shine in eyes touch things travel travel along glass fibers travel quickly travel through vaccume wave or particle
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Bengola light Friday night lights Light Alfs Light Net Light Web Metropolis light transport Range of Light Shine the Light Law Spirit of Light Spooklight St. Elmo's light aberration of light alighten alt-light antilight antilights arc light bad light batement light betalight better light better to light a candle than to curse the darkness better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness better to light one candle than to curse the darkness better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness bili light blue light bandit blue light disco blue-light special borrowed light bright lights bright lights and cold steel bring to light by one's lights can light cast light on catch the light chain-light city lights cold steel and bright lights colour light colour light signal come to light cosmic light horizon deadlight density of light electric light bug elf-light enlight enlighten fairy lights false light fanlight faster than light faster-than-light faster-than-light particle feather-light fill light first light floating light floodlight give a light go out like a light guiding light half-light hard light hide one's light under a bushel highlight hold a light hyperlight in light of in someone's light in the cold light of day in the light of indicator light jump the lights keep the lights on kick the tires and light the fires kilolight knock someone's lights out lady of light virtue large light cruiser leaded light leading light leadlight let there be light lidar light a fire under light academia light air light along light as a feather light at the end of the tunnel light ball light barrel light barrier light bill light blue light bob light box light bread light breeze light brown apple moth light bucket light bulb light buoy light carrier light cavalry light century light characteristic light clock light cone light corn syrup light cream light cruiser light curve light day light decade light down light due light echo light elf light engine light engineering light entertainment light eon light equation light field light fixture light gele light globe light grasp light green cell hormon light gun light horse light hour light hydrogen light icebreaker light in the loafers light in the sneakers light industry light infantry light intensity light into light jockey light line light machine gun light matter light meat light meter light microscope light mill light millennium light minute light money light month light novel light of nature light of one's eye light off light oil light on light on one's feet light on the hill light one's hair on fire light opera light orange light organ light out light painting light panel light paper light pen light pillar light pipe light plough light pollution light porter light probe light profile light rail light railway light ray light roller light sail light second light sector light show light side of the Force light someone's fire light source light spectrum light speed light station light stepper light switch light table light the touch-paper light therapy light time light trespass light up light up the tote light upon light vehicle light verb light water light waterline light wave light week light year light-bearing light-collecting power light-colored light-dependent resistor light-duty light-emitting diode light-finger light-fingered light-fingeredness light-footed light-gathering power light-haired light-handed light-headed light-headedly light-heeled light-horseman light-legged light-mile light-minded light-mindedly light-mindedness light-mouthed light-nanosecond light-o'-love light-off temperature light-polluted light-scattering photometry light-sensitive light-shot light-skinned light-skirts light-spirited light-struck light-tight light-up light-winged light-witted lightable lightbar lightboard lightboat lightbox lightbulb lighter lightface lightfaced lightfast lightfoot lightfront lightful lightful lightfulness lightguide lighthead lightheadedness lighthearted lighthouse lightie lightish lightkeeper lightless lightlike lightliness lightly lightman lightmans lightmap lightmapping lightmonger lightness lightpath lightplane lightpost lightproof lightray lightroom lights out lights, camera, action lights-out lightsaber lightscape lightscot lightshade lightshift lightship lightskin lightskirt lightskirts lightsome lightsomely lightsomeness lightspeed lightstation lightstick lightstrip lightvessel lightward lightwards lightweight lightwell lightwood lightwood lightwork lightworker livers and lights looplight lovelight lowlight luthern-light make a light make light work of many hands make light work marker light marsh light matchlight microlight midlight mislight more heat than light multilight nonlight nonlight noonlight northern lights offer the light one-way light time out like a light over light overlight overlight overlight peak of eternal light penlight pick-to-light pipe-light pocketlight porchlight portlight prelight punch someone's lights out put on the red light put someone's light out put someone's lights out quarter light quarterlight rainlight ray of light reading light relight ringlight running lights rushlight set light shed light on shed light upon shine a light on shine light on shoot the lights out skylight snowlight southern lights spacelight speed of light speedlight stand in one's own light stop the lights straylight strike a light striplight sub-light super-light sweetness and light tealight the light the light of day the lights are on but no one's home the lights are on but nobody's home throw light on thunderlight toplight torchlight travel light trick of the light trip the light fantastic tubelight ultralight underlight unlight uplight uplight very light very-light verylight warlight watchlight waxlight windowlight yellow light of death
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Broader Terms (Hypernyms)
actinic radiation actinic ray aspect begin brainstorm brainwave burn combust come down commence condition descend device devolve electromagnetic radiation ethical motive ethics expression face facial expression fall friend general knowledge go down ignite illumination insight land lead off lighten lighten up look morality morals pass perspective physical property position public knowledge return scene set down source of illumination start status verve view visual property visual signal vitality
Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)
Bengal light Bude light Christmas light Coston light Drummond light Finsen light Hessdalen light Marfa light Min Min light Very light Wood's light X-light Yehudi lights accidental light afterlight amber light anchor light ancient lights available light backlight bad light bedlight big light black light blue light boob light booklight brake light calcium light candlelight catchlight cherry light circular polarized light circularly polarized light cocklight coherent light cold light courtesy light crosslight dark light dashlight dawnlight daylight dome light downlight drop light dry light dummy light dusklight earthlight electric light evenlight extragalactic background light firelight flamelight flashlight floodlight fog light footlight forelight gaslight ghost light glowlight green light grow light guidelight hard light hazard light headlight houselight icelight idiot light immeasurable light interlight isophase light jacklight key light klieg light lamplight lanternlight limelight magnesium light mood light moonlight natural light navigation light neon light nightlight occulting light owl light oxycalcium light oxyhydrogen light park light parking light pendant light pilot light plane polarized light pocket light polar lights polarized light practical light quarry light quick light range light rear light red light riding light ring light roof light rough service light running light safelight sea-light searchlight sidelight skylight slow light spotlight stack light starlight stop-and-go light stoplight streetlight strobe light sunlight swag light synchrotron light taillight tally light top light track light transom trouble light twilight ultraviolet light warning light white light yardlight yellow light zircon light zodiacal light
Type Of (IsA)
actinic radiation condition description of color different colors electromagnetic radiation energy form of radiation friend headdress for holy illumination insight particle particle and wave photons portion of electromagnetic radiation position public knowledge refracted by water scene source of illumination visual property visual signal wave where no darkness why see beauty
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Related Terms
alight answer anti anti darkness arkansas beams brightness brightness wavelengths brilliance bulb bulb emission bulbs case chance clue colour concepts cross light crossword dark darkness day day time double acrostic electromagnetic radiation emission energy fire firework flame from sun glow greene county heavy houses ideas illuminate illumination in lampshade infrared jettison kindle lamp lamp product lamp shining lamps lampshade low luminosity makes nanometer notice pale photons product qur radiation ray rays seeing seeing darkness series serve set fire shade shining source square start stone stop sun sun emission sun makes sun ray sun rays sunshine sura switch time torch torch glow traffic light triple acrostic trivial ultraviolet unchaste united states unload wanton wave wavelength wavelengths weight white
Similar Terms
ablaze accrue airy airy autofluorescent autofluorescent bioluminescent bioluminescent bright bright buoyant candent candescent candescent casual deficient digestible digestible easy fall fat-free fatless floaty floaty floodlighted floodlighted floodlit fluorescent fluorescent fooling fooling frivolous frivolous gentle gentle ill illuminated incandescent incandescent inflamed insignificant insignificant insufficient insufficient lamplit lamplit light duty light-armed light-duty light-footed lighted lighter than air lighter-than-air lighting up lighting-up lightly armed lightly-armed lightweight lightweight lit livid livid loose loose low density low-density luminescent luminescent nonfat pale pale palish palish pastel pastel phosphorescent phosphorescent powdery powdery pure reddened reddened shallow sick soft sunlit sunny sunstruck sunstruck temperate thin thin unchaste undemanding undemanding unimportant unstressed well lighted well-lighted white white
Synonym Network
abstemious alight bright calorie free chance upon comprehension delicate electric light enlightenment fall ignite illuminate inconsequential inner light insight knowledge light headed light up lighter lightly lightsome lightweight lite luminosity pale promiscuous sparkle traffic light unaccented unclouded unhorse visible light wakeful
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