lite
noting a commercial product that is low in calories or low in any substance considered undesirable, as compared with a product of the same type: used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products: lite beer.
noting a version that is comparatively less extreme, profound, advanced, etc., than the typical version (often used postpositively):The film glossed over the dangers of the experiment with a science-lite explanation. The lite version of the app is available for mobile download.
Origin of lite
1Other words from lite
- liteness, noun
Words Nearby lite
Other definitions for -lite (2 of 2)
a combining form used in the names of minerals or fossils: aerolite; chrysolite.
Origin of -lite
2- Also -lyte2.
- Compare -lith.
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How to use lite in a sentence
Podcasts are “generally an ad-lite environment” while brands’ messaging “has a higher share of voice in this ecosystem compared to others,” Ross said.
‘Qualify the context’: Publishers see success with podcasts created to deepen coronavirus crisis coverage | Sara Guaglione | February 26, 2021 | DigidayDespite this initial use of influencers, Clubhouse is likely to remain brand-lite for a while yet.
‘Because it’s so new and fresh’: It took a minute, but brands are in the Clubhouse app | Seb Joseph | February 22, 2021 | DigidayIt’s not a matter of appeasing independents or Republicans, or becoming “Republican lite” as some call it.
According to Cloudinary data, web developers that work to optimize the lite mode experience benefit from longer engagement and see up to a 10% uptick in session engagement.
Optimizing the browser long tail across platforms, devices, and countries | Sanjay Sarathy | October 19, 2020 | Search Engine WatchIn April 2020, 18% of global Android users enabled the “save-data,” or lite mode, function, which enables faster browsing by decreasing the amount of mobile data used.
Optimizing the browser long tail across platforms, devices, and countries | Sanjay Sarathy | October 19, 2020 | Search Engine Watch
Too many Democrats, in the face of national headwinds, ran as Republican-lite, Malloy said.
Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy to Democrats: Grow a Pair | David Freedlander | November 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMaybe all this Sturm und Drang will give birth to a new lime-lite generation of cocktails.
Limepocalypse! Inside the Great Lime Shortage of 2014 | Kara Cutruzzula | April 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn his previous roles, the 26-year-old actor was like Vince Vaughn-lite—a charismatic, eminently likeable motor mouth.
‘Whiplash’ Is Sundance’s Hottest Film, A Music-Themed Drama Starring Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons | Marlow Stern | January 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTVoegeli charges that Geoffrey Kabaservice and I propose only that Republicans dwindle into Democrats-lite.
And some sort of fraud-lite will be committed by everybody, against everybody--including themselves.
How Much Fraud Was There Among Mortgage Originators? | Megan McArdle | February 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThan bad he hym syn erthe was so lyte; F. Than bad he hym see the erthe that is so lite (wrongly).
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerMeantime, Coligny and La Rochefoucauld were advancing to meet him with the lite of their army and with all the artillery they had.
History of the Rise of the Huguenots | Henry BairdShe was a great contrast to the rest of them, who were in ultra fashionable and befeathered robes, of a style unknown to our lite.
A Journal from Japan | Marie Carmichael StopesWe old chaps, my dear, air apt to forget that it is sum time since we was infants, and et lite food.
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward | Charles Farrar Browne (AKA Artemus Ward)First of all the American Negro is the lite, the aristocracy of Liberia.
The Soul of John Brown | Stephen Graham
British Dictionary definitions for lite (1 of 2)
/ (laɪt) /
(of food and drink) containing few calories or little alcohol or fat
denoting a more restrained or less extreme version of a person or thing: reggae lite
Origin of lite
1British Dictionary definitions for -lite (2 of 2)
(in names of minerals) stone: chrysolite Compare -lith
Origin of -lite
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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