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

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

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

The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

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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