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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
    
3. The craft of providing artificial light
   "an interior decorator must understand lighting"
    
4. The act of setting something on fire
   - ignition, firing, kindling, inflammation

1. Introduce light into
   - illume, illumine, light up, illuminate
    
2. Begin to smoke
   "After the meal, some of the diners lit up";
   - light up, fire up
    
3. To come to rest, settle
   - alight, perch
    
4. Cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
   "Light a cigarette";
   - ignite
    
5. Be allotted to somebody by assignment or as part of their role
   - fall
    
6. (riding) alight from (a horse)
   - unhorse, dismount, get off, get down, demount
    
7. Start or maintain a fire in
   - fire, ignite

Derived forms: lightings

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

Antonym: snuff out

Encyclopedia: Lighting