Definition of Lighter

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Lighter

One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.

A large boat or barge, mainly used in unloading or loading vessels which can not reach the wharves at the place of shipment or delivery.

To convey by a lighter, as to or from the shore; as, to lighter the cargo of a ship.

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Lighter Quotations

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
Voltaire

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
Phillips Brooks

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.
Joni Mitchell

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
Petrarch

I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.
Bobby Darin

Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.
Ralph Merkle

Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that.
Josh Holloway

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.
Richard Le Gallienne

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
Ralph Merkle

Lighter Translations

lighter in Dutch is aansteker, vuurmaker
lighter in Italian is accendino
lighter in Portuguese is mais claro
lighter in Spanish is mechero, encendador, encendedor

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