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# lighter

«lighter» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small device that makes a flame, used to light candles…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a lighter, lighters); adjective, comparative (light, lighter, lightest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small device that makes a flame, used to light candles, cigarettes, stoves or fires. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighter/#m1)

2) Less heavy: «A feather is lighter than a stone». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighter/#m2)

3) Paler or less dark in colour: «light blue is lighter than navy». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighter/#m3)

4) Brighter, with more light: «It's lighter in the mornings now». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighter/#m4)

5) Less serious or less strong: «a lighter meal». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighter/#m5)

6) Lighter can also mean less worried and happier in your heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighter/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and science: comparing mass — «Which is lighter?»; on a balance the lighter side goes up. In art: mix white to make a colour lighter. In safety: lighters and matches are not toys — give any you find to an adult. Phrases: «lighter than», «a cigarette lighter», «lighter in colour».

### examples

- A feather is lighter than a brick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighter/#x1)
- The side of the scale that goes up is lighter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighter/#x2)
- Add white paint to make the blue lighter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighter/#x3)
- It gets lighter earlier in spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighter/#x4)
- Never play with a lighter; give it to an adult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighter/#x5)
- Dad used a lighter to light the barbecue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighter/#x6)
- My school bag is lighter today because I have no books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighter/#x7)
- We had a lighter lunch because it was hot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighter/#x8)
- And when she had offered this prayer, her heart felt lighter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighter/#x9)

### note

Two different words with the same spelling: «lighter» from «light» (not heavy / not dark) and «a lighter» (a flame tool, from the verb «light»). In maths, «lighter» compares mass: if A is 3 kg and B is 5 kg, A is 2 kg lighter. Opposites: heavier, darker.

### In the corpora

- [Keeping it a secret usually makes the feeling heavier; telling makes it lighter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/58-landing-on-an-18-film-by-accident/15/)
- [Adding white to a colour makes a lighter tint, and adding black makes a darker shade.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/42-olympiad-picture-puzzles/6/)
- [A shark's skeleton is made of cartilage, which is lighter and bendier than bone, so shark fossils are mostly teeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/6/)
- [A tiny pipistrelle, lighter than a coin, can eat around 3,000 small insects in one night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/13/)
- [Sauropod bones had air pockets inside, as birds' bones do, which made the skeleton lighter and helped breathing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lighter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lighter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.