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LIGHTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Provided with artificial light
Example:
a well-lighted stairwell
Synonyms:
illuminated; lighted; lit; well-lighted
Classified under:
Similar:
light (characterized by or emitting light)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Set afire or burning
Example:
a lit firecracker
Synonyms:
lighted; lit
Classified under:
Similar:
ablaze; afire; aflame; aflare; alight; on fire (lighted up by or as by fire or flame)
enkindled; ignited; kindled (set afire)
Antonym:
unlighted (not set afire or burning)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb light
Context examples:
His broad, brown face was lighted up by a continual smile, and he looked slowly from side to side with eyes which twinkled and shone with delight.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The lamp was lighted and so also was my father’s pipe.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But I consented to listen, and seating myself by the fire which my odious companion had lighted, he thus began his tale.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Doctors diagnose nasal cancer with imaging tests, lighted tube-like instruments that look inside the nose, and biopsies.
(Nasal Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)
In a laparoscopic-assisted colectomy, several small incisions are made and a thin, lighted tube attached to a video camera is inserted through one opening to guide the surgery.
(Colectomy, NCI Dictionary)
(EN-dah-skope) A thin, lighted tube used to look at tissues inside the body.
(Endoscope, NCI Dictionary)
A lighted component that is part of a function indicator.
(Function Indicator Light Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
It was dim- lighted; but his eyes had never had to adjust themselves to any other light.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The evening came, the drawing-rooms were lighted up, the company assembled.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
And when the lamps are lighted, it's like looking at a picture to see the fire, and you all around the table with your mother.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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