Слово англійською: light
Дієслово
Переклад light українською: , підпали́ти що (де́рево і т. д.), запали́ти що, освітли́ти (сві́тлом), ви́пливти на пове́рхню
Детальний опис
light
verb /laɪt/
Lighted is also used for the past tense and past participle, especially in front of nouns. start to burn
- [transitive] light something to make something start to burn
- She lit a candle.
- Come in, I'll light a fire and you can get warmed up.
- to light a cigarette/cigar/pipe
- The gas lamps were lit.
- I put a lighted match to the letter and watched it burn.
- The fire is thought to have started when someone dropped a lit cigarette.
- [intransitive] (used especially in negative sentences) to start to burn
give light
- [transitive, usually passive] to give light to something or to a place
- be lit (by something) At night the hall was lit by candles.
- a dimly lit street
- a brightly lit room
- light something They use lanterns to light the room.
- the lighted windows of the house
- [transitive] light something (literary) to guide somebody with a light
- Our way was lit by a full moon.
Word Originverb ,Old English lēoht, līht (noun and adjective), līhtan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch licht and German Licht, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek leukos ‘white’ and Latin lux ‘light’.
Phrasal Verbs- light on
- light up
- light upon