[
UK
/lˈaɪtɐ/
]
[ US /ˈɫaɪtɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫaɪtɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
- a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire
-
a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
do you have a light?
VERB
- transport in a flatbottom boat
How To Use lighter In A Sentence
- The lightship has had uplighters added to its fore and aft masts with lighting units added around its deck and jetty.
- Instead, we decided to hang up the heavier long underwear like regular clothing and simply bundle our lighter underwear with a rubber band.
- He agreed to give evidence in return for a lighter sentence.
- Ships had to discharge their cargoes at congested anchorages either into horse drawn lighters or onto packhorses for the journey to the industrial centre.
- A brief program with music and merriment begins the ceremony, then an honorary candlelighter lights his or her candle and starts passing it along through the crowd. Zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News
- Under that scale, brown is measured as dark grey, whereas shades of rust and buff are lighter grey.
- They would let whole milk stand for several hours until the lighter cream rose to the top.
- Pros, from what I've read, is that mirror pentaprisms are lighter, can be made smaller to save space, and are cheaper to manufacture than glass pentaprisms.
- There is only so long you can ignore that kind of behaviour, even knowing that the little blighter has a bowl filled to the brim with tasty kitty treats in the kitchen.
- The largest of Washington's pigeons and doves, it is all gray, with a lighter gray, banded tail.