What is light?

More definitions of "light":

• (adj): Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.
  Example: "A light pound"
  Synonyms: scant, short

• (adj): (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency.
  Example: "Light sandy soil"
  Synonyms: friable, sandy

• (noun): A person regarded very fondly.
  Example: "The light of my life"

• (adj): Of little intensity or power or force.
  Example: "The light touch of her fingers"; "a light breeze"

• (noun): A condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination.
  Example: "Follow God's light"
  Synonyms: illumination

• (adj): Marked by temperance in indulgence.
  Example: "A light eater"; "a light smoker"; "ate a light supper"
  Synonyms: abstemious

• (adj): Having a spongy or flaky texture; well-leavened.
  Example: "Light pastries"

• (adj): Having relatively few calories.
  Example: "Light (or lite) beer"
  Synonyms: lite, low-cal

• (adj): Moving easily and quickly; nimble.
  Example: "The dancer was light and graceful"; "walked with a light tripping step"
  Synonyms: lightsome, tripping

• (adj): Used of vowels or syllables; pronounced with little or no stress.
  Example: "A syllable that ends in a short vowel is a light syllable"
  Synonyms: unaccented, weak

• (noun): A particular perspective or aspect of a situation.
  Example: "Although he saw it in a different light, he still did not understand"

• (noun): Mental understanding as an enlightening experience.
  Example: "He finally saw the light"; "can you shed light on this problem?"

• (adv): With few burdens.
  Example: "Experienced travellers travel light"
  Synonyms: lightly

• (verb): Make lighter or brighter.
  Synonyms: illume, illumine, light up, illuminate

• (adj): Having little importance.
  Example: "Losing his job was no light matter"

• (noun): A divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul.
  Synonyms: Inner Light, Light Within, Christ Within

• (verb): Begin to smoke.
  Synonyms: light up, fire up

• (noun): A device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires.
  Example: "Do you have a light?"
  Synonyms: lighter, igniter, ignitor

• (adj): Demanding little effort; not burdensome.
  Example: "Light housework"; "light exercise"

• (adj): Intended primarily as entertainment; not serious or profound.
  Example: "Light verse"; "a light comedy"

• (noun): Any device serving as a source of illumination.
  Synonyms: light source

• (adj): (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims.
  Example: "A light lilting voice like a silver bell"
  Synonyms: clean, clear, unclouded

• (noun): The quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light.
  Synonyms: luminosity, brightness, brightness level, luminance, luminousness

• (adj): Weak and likely to lose consciousness.
  Example: "Felt light in the head"; "light-headed with wine"; "light-headed from lack of sleep"
  Synonyms: faint, swooning, light-headed, lightheaded

• (adj): Of comparatively little physical weight or density.
  Example: "A light load"; "magnesium is a light metal--having a specific gravity of 1.74 at 20 degrees C"

• (adj): Designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight.
  Example: "Light aircraft"; "a light truck"

• (noun): An illuminated area.
  Example: "He stepped into the light"

• (verb): Get off (a horse).
  Synonyms: unhorse, dismount, get off, get down

• (adj): Very thin and insubstantial.
  Example: "Light summer dresses"
  Synonyms: flimsy

• (noun): A visual warning signal.
  Example: "They saw the light of the beacon"; "there was a light at every corner"

• (noun): Public awareness.
  Example: "It brought the scandal to light"

• (verb): Cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat.
  Example: "Light a cigarette"
  Synonyms: ignite

• (adj): (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent.
  Example: "Light blue"; "light colors such as pastels"; "a light-colored powder"
  Synonyms: light-colored

• (noun): The visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures.
  Example: "He could paint the lightest light and the darkest dark"
  Synonyms: lightness

• (noun): Brightness and animation of countenance.
  Synonyms: sparkle, spark

• (adj): Easily assimilated in the alimentary canal; not rich or heavily seasoned.
  Example: "A light diet"

• (adj): Psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles.
  Example: "A light heart"

• (adj): (physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average.
  Example: "Light water is ordinary water"

• (adj): Characterized by or emitting light.
  Example: "A room that is light when the shutters are open"; "the inside of the house was airy and light"

• (verb): To come to rest, settle.
  Synonyms: alight, perch

• (noun): Having abundant light or illumination.
  Example: "They played as long as it was light"
  Synonyms: lighting

• (adj): Silly or trivial.
  Example: "Light banter"; "light idle chatter"
  Synonyms: idle

• (noun): (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation.
  Example: "The light was filtered through a soft glass window"
  Synonyms: visible light, visible radiation

• (verb): Fall to somebody by assignment or lot.
  Synonyms: fall

• (adj): Not great in degree or quantity or number.
  Example: "A light sentence"; "a light accent"; "casualties were light"; "light snow was falling"; "light misty rain"; "light smoke from the chimney"

• (adj): (of sleep) easily disturbed.
  Example: "In a light doze"; "a light sleeper"
  Synonyms: wakeful

• (adj): Of the military or industry; using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment.
  Example: "Light infantry"; "light cavalry"; "light industry"; "light weapons"

Famous quotes containing the word light:

“The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.”
—Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921)

“When it is dark in the east, it is light in the west; when things are dark in the south there is still light in the north.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)