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a large, open, flat-bottomed barge, used in unloading and loading ships offshore or in transporting goods for short distances in shallow waters.
to convey in or as if in a lighter.
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How to use lighter in a sentence
If you are a side sleeper, you might want to consider getting a lighter blanket, slightly under 10% of your body weight, because the weight of the blanket cannot be evenly spread.
Best weighted blanket: Sleep like a baby with our comfy bedding picks | PopSci Commerce Team | February 12, 2021 | Popular-ScienceYou can also easily purchase additional lighter fuel when you need to refill.
Best hand warmers: Block the chill during your favorite winter activities | PopSci Commerce Team | February 10, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe lighter the materials used, the less fatigue you will feel.
Best heated vest: Beat the cold weather with the right winter gear | PopSci Commerce Team | February 9, 2021 | Popular-ScienceMighty Building’s use of 3D printing, advanced manufacturing techniques, modern robotics and “new lighter and stronger materials” gives it an edge, he added.
Mighty Buildings nabs $40M Series B to 3D print your next house | Mary Ann Azevedo | February 9, 2021 | TechCrunchThey’re classified in part by the complexity of their carbon chains—the fewer carbon molecules linked together, the lighter the product.
Keystone XL was supposed to be a green pipeline. What does that even mean? | Juliet Grable | February 5, 2021 | Popular-Science
New refinements in aluminum made structures both stronger and lighter.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly? | Clive Irving | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTNow on a lighter note, with Selma, you did get Oprah to throw a mean haymaker.
Ava DuVernay on ‘Selma,’ the Racist Sony Emails, and Making Golden Globes History | Marlow Stern | December 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMeanwhile younger, lighter colors evoke citrus and tree fruits, candy sugars and vanilla toffee.
Why Natural Color Is So Crucial To Understanding A Whisky’s Flavors | | December 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTChris Christie may be feeling a little bit lighter today, though it's unlikely he would ever admit it.
Democrats Clear Christie In Bridgegate Investigation | Olivia Nuzzi | December 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut they are being built with new, lighter materials and powered with far more efficient engines.
Flying Coach Is the New Hell: How Airlines Engineer You Out of Room | Clive Irving | November 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe seeds of some species are of a dark brown while others are of a lighter shade.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.Going back, found that the lighter loads of wounded already taken off have by no means cleared the beach.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonThe organ touch could now be made as light as that of a pianoforte, much lighter than ever before.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerShe quite forgot her companion in these lighter reminiscences of a period that seemed far more than ten years agone.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonIt was upon a lighter note, not to end in anticlimax, that Mr. Jenyns concluded his able pamphlet.
The Eve of the Revolution | Carl Becker
British Dictionary definitions for lighter (1 of 2)
/ (ˈlaɪtə) /
a small portable device for providing a naked flame or red-hot filament to light cigarettes, etc
a person or thing that ignites something
British Dictionary definitions for lighter (2 of 2)
/ (ˈlaɪtə) /
a flat-bottomed barge used for transporting cargo, esp in loading or unloading a ship
Origin of lighter
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