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lighter

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Noun

HYPHEN

light=er

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun lighter has 3 senses

lighter(n = noun.substance) igniter, ignitor - a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire;

has particulars: firelighter, kindling, punk, spunk, tinder, touchwood, punk

is a kind of fuel

Derived form verb light₄

lighter(n = noun.artifact) igniter, ignitor, light - a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires; "do you have a light?"

has particulars: cigar lighter, cigarette lighter, pocket lighter, fuse, fusee, fuze, fuzee, primer, priming, friction match, lucifer, match, match

is a kind of device

Derived form verb light₄

lighter(n = noun.artifact) barge, flatboat, hoy - a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals);

is a kind of boat

has particulars: dredger, houseboat, pontoon, scow, norfolk wherry, wherry

Derived form verb lighter₁

Verb lighter has 1 sense

lighter(v = verb.motion) - transport in a flatbottom boat;

is one way to

transport

Derived forms noun lighter₃, noun lighterage₂, noun lighterage₁

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP

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CIDE DICTIONARY

lighter, n.

One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps. [1913 Webster]

cigarette lighter A small portable device which produces a flame when a button is pushed, carried on the person to allow one to light cigarettes conveniently, and taking the place of a match. It may have a reservoir of liquid fuel conveyed by a wick, or may contain compressed butane as the fuel.

lighter, n. [D. ligter, fr. ligt light. See Light not heavy.].

A large boat or barge, mainly used in unloading or loading vessels which can not reach the wharves at the place of shipment or delivery. [1913 Webster]

Lighter screw (Mach.), a screw for adjusting the distance between the stones in a grinding mill by raising or lowering the bridgetree.

lighter, v. t.

To convey by a lighter, as to or from the shore; as, to lighter the cargo of a ship. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

lighter, n. a device for lighting cigarettes etc.

lighter, n. a boat, usu. flat-bottomed, for transferring goods from a ship to a wharf or another ship.

Etymology

ME f. MDu. lichter (as LIGHT(2) in the sense 'unload')

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ROGET THESAURUS

lighter

Ship

N ship, vessel, sail, craft, bottom, navy, marine, fleet, flotilla, shipping, man of war, transport, tender, storeship, merchant ship, merchantman, packet, liner, whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter, fishing boat, pilot boat, trawler, hulk, yacht, baggala, floating hotel, floating palace, ocean greyhound, ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig, brigantine, barkantine, schooner, topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner, chasse-maree, sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss, sailer, sailing vessel, windjammer, steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruiseship, ship of the line, mail steamer, paddle steamer, screw steamer, tug, line of steamers, destroyer, cruiser, frigate, landing ship, LST, aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier, submarine, submersible, atomic submarine, boat, pinnace, launch, life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, cock boat, ferry boat, canal boat, swamp boat, ark, bully, battery, bateau, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher, dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot, shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret, eight oar, four oar, pair oar, randan, outrigger, float, raft, pontoon, prame, iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht, catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft, coracle, gondola, carvel, caravel, felucca, caique, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe, galley, galleyfoist, bilander, dogger, hooker, howker, argosy, carack, galliass, galleon, polacca, polacre, tartane, junk, lorcha, praam, proa, prahu, saick, sampan, xebec, dhow, dahabeah, nuggah, kayak, keel boat, log canoe, pirogue, quadrireme, trireme, stern-wheeler, wanigan, wangan, wharf boat, balloon, airship, aeroplane, biplane, monoplane, triplane, hydroplane, aerodrome, air balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon, dirigible, zeppelin, aerostat, Montgolfier, kite, parachute, jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller plane, corporate plane, corporate jet, private plane, private aviation, airline, common carrier, fighter, bomber, fighter-bomber, escort plane, spy plane, supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft, afloat, aboard, on board, on ship board, hard a lee, hard a port, hard a starboard, hard a weather.

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