lighter

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈlaɪtə/    美 /ˈlaɪtɚ/|[ˈlaɪɾɚ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who lights things.
    — a lighter of lamps
  2. A flat-bottomed boat for carrying heavy loads across short distances (especially for canals or for loading or unloading larger boats).
    — It is, of course, possible to work only to or from lighters in this way, and such working is not very general in this country, although a certain amount of such overside work is carried on in enclosed docks.
  3. A device used to light things, especially a reusable handheld device for creating fire to light cigarettes.
    — Cigarette in mouth, he clutched his pockets in search of a lighter.
动词 v.
  1. To transfer (cargo or passengers) to or from a ship by means of a lighter or other small vessel.
    — 1900. Report of the Commission Appointed by the President to Investigate the Conduct of the War Department in the War with Spain. Vol. 7, pg. 3227. Troops and stores were lightered to the wharves inside the harbor by steamers Orizaba and Berkshire.
  2. To transfer cargo or fuel from (a ship), lightening it to make its draft less or to make it easier to refloat.
形容词 adj.
  1. comparative form of light: more light comparative,form-of
    — I prefer a lighter shade of pink.
  2. comparative form of light: more light comparative,form-of
    — What happened? You look 10 lbs. lighter!

词形变化

lighters plural lighters plural lighters present,singular,third-person lightering participle,present lightered participle,past lightered past

词汇关系

下位词
cigarette lighter firelighter lamplighter
衍生词
candlelighter cigar lighter fag lighter fag-lighter gaslighter jet lighter lighterage lighter fluid lighterful lighterman lighter screw lump the lighter pipe lighter sandlighter table lighter torch lighter

词源

词源 1
From light (“to ignite”) + -er. Cognate with Middle Dutch lichtere, lichter (“one who spreads light, illuminator”), Dutch lichter, luchter (“candle-holder, chandelier”). Compare also Middle English lightnere, liȝtnere (“one who enlightens or illuminates”).
词源 2
From Middle English lightere, lyghtere, equivalent to light (“to unload, lighten”) + -er. Compare West Frisian lichter (“lighter ship”), Dutch lichter (“lighter ship”), Middle Low German lichter, lüchter, lüchtære (“a small ship that lightens a load, lighter ship”).
词源 3
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz
Proto-West Germanic *leuht
Old English lēoht
Middle English light
English light
English -er
English lighter
From light (“pale”) + -er (“comparative”).
词源 4
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz
Proto-West Germanic *leuht
Old English lēoht
Middle English light
English light
English -er
English lighter
From light (“not heavy, weak”) + -er (“comparative”).
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