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Light-Year
- noun - the distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1 year; 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion kilometers
Lightbulbs
- noun - electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity
Lighten Up
- verb - become lighter; "The room lightened up"
- become more cheerful; "after a glass of wine, he lightened up a bit"
- make lighter or brighter; "The paint will brighten the room"
- make more cheerful; "the conversation lightened me up a bit"
Lightening
- verb - alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive; "relieve the pressure and the stress"; "lighten the burden of caring for her elderly parents"
- become lighter; "The room lightened up"
- become more cheerful; "after a glass of wine, he lightened up a bit"
- changing to a lighter color
- descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped
- make lighter or brighter; "The paint will brighten the room"
- make more cheerful; "the conversation lightened me up a bit"
- reduce the weight on; make lighter; "she lightened the load on the tired donkey"
Lighterage
- noun - the fee charged for carrying goods in lighters
- the transportation of goods on a lighter
Lightering
- verb - transport in a flatbottom boat
Lighterman
- noun - someone who operates a barge
Lightermen
- noun - someone who operates a barge
Lighthouse
- noun - a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships
Lightnings
- noun - abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
- the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more