LIGHTER

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Traducere în limba română

lighter¹ substantiv

1. lampagiu; om însărcinat cu aprinderea.

2. aprinzător, mijloc / dispozitiv de aprindere; brichetă;

petrol lighter brichetă cu benzină.

3. iască; fitil; amnar; hârtie de aprins ţigara.

lighter² I. substantiv

(mar.) şlep, mahonă, şalandă; gabară; bac nepuntat.

lighter² II. verb A. tranzitiv

a transporta (mărfuri) pe şlepuri.

lighter² II. verb B. intranzitiv

a fi de transportat pe şlepuri.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“And make mine so much lighter,” she replied.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The rest of his mates, though lighter dogs, had relatively lost more weight than he.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

Just as a grounded boat can float again on shallow water if it is made lighter, a glacier can float over an area where it used to be grounded if it becomes lighter, which it does by melting or by the thinning effects of the glacier stretching out.

(West Antarctic Glacier loss appears unstoppable, NASA)

And on that part of it where she and I had looked for shells, two children—on that part of it where some lighter fragments of the old boat, blown down last night, had been scattered by the wind—among the ruins of the home he had wronged—I saw him lying with his head upon his arm, as I had often seen him lie at school.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

But, sometimes, when I took her up, and felt that she was lighter in my arms, a dead blank feeling came upon me, as if I were approaching to some frozen region yet unseen, that numbed my life.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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