1. The quality or amount of light; the effect and arrangement of lights
   "as long as the lighting was good";
   - light, illumination
    
2. Equipment for providing artificial light
   "The photographer brought professional lighting equipment to the shoot"
    
3. The craft of providing artificial light
   "an interior decorator must understand lighting"
    
4. The act of setting something on fire
   "The lighting of the Olympic torch is a symbolic tradition";
   - ignition, firing, kindling, inflammation

1. Introduce light into
   "The morning sun lit up the room";
   - illume [archaic], illumine, light up, illuminate
    
2. Begin to smoke
   "After the meal, some of the diners lit up";
   - light up, fire up
    
3. Cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
   "Light a cigarette";
   - ignite
    
4. Start or maintain a fire in
   "light the furnace";
   - fire, ignite
    
5. To come to rest, settle
   "The bird lit on the branch";
   - alight, perch
    
6. Be allotted to somebody by assignment or as part of their role
   "The difficult task lit upon the newest employee";
   - fall
    
7. (riding) alight from (a horse)
   "The rider lightd at the corner";
   - dismount, get off, get down, demount

Derived forms: lightings

Type of: apparatus, begin, burn, burning, combust, combustion, come down, commence, descend, devolve, fall, go down, illumination, interior decorating, interior decoration, land, lead off, lighten, lighten up, pass, return, set down, setup, start

Encyclopedia: Lighting