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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • of coffee served with extra milk or cream
  • Gentle; having little force or momentum.
  • having light
  • Lightly-built; designed for speed or small loads.
  • Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
  • obsolete Unchaste, wanton.
  • Of low weight; not heavy.
  • pale in colour
  • Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.

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Adverb:

  • Carrying little.

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Noun:

  • A flame or something used to create fire.
  • A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
  • A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
  • A source of illumination.
  • A window, or space for a window in architecture
  • in plural|now|_|rare Facts. pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
  • curling A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
  • informal A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
  • Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
  • The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue
  • uncountable The natural medium emanating from the sun and other very hot sources (now recognised as electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of 400-750 nm), within which vision is possible.

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Verb:

  • archaic To alight.
  • nautical To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter
  • To find by chance.
  • transitive To illuminate.
  • transitive To start (a fire).

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