unlight

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The absence of light; darkness. literary,poetic
    — Those of the Unlight is probably Marduk's most traditional black metal recording, and one of my personal favorites.
动词 v.
  1. To extinguish, turn off, or dim the light from rare,transitive
    — His father, in another room, unlights the lamp and leaves the world alone.
  2. To alight; dismount dialectal,intransitive
    — I would rather take the water unmixed," said I. "Just as you like," said the old soldier; "but please to unlight, and come into my barracks, at all events."
形容词 adj.
  1. Not light (“having little weight”). rare
    — And thought to bere him doun; With a launce unlight, He smote him in the lyoun; And Tristrem that was wight […]

词形变化

unlights present,singular,third-person unlighting participle,present unlighted participle,past unlighted past unlit participle,past unlit past unlights plural unlights present,singular,third-person unlighting participle,present unlighted participle,past unlighted past

词源

词源 1
From un- + light or, in the case of the verb, perhaps from Middle English *unlighten (suggested by past participle unlight, unlyght, unliȝt (“unlit”)), equivalent to un- + light.
词源 2
From Middle English unlighten (“to lighten the burden of; alleviate; dismount from horseback”), equivalent to un- + light (“to alight”).
词源 3
From Middle English unlight, unlyght, unliȝt (“not light (in weight)”), equivalent to un- + light.
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