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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause to burn |
| Synonyms: | enkindle, ignite, kindle, light, put a match to, set ablaze, set aflame, set alight, set fire to, set on fire, start a fire, touch off |
| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | start on fire |
| Synonyms: | burn, enkindle, fire, flame, ignite, inflame, kindle, set fire to, set on fire, spark, strike a match |
| Antonyms: | drench, extinguish, put out, quench |
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| Main Entry: | heat |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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ablaze, adiaphoretic, afire, alight, anhidrotic, ardent, baking, blazing, blood-hot, blood-warm, buldering, burning-hot, burnt, calefacient, calorific, candent, canicular, close, coctile, combustible, deflagrable, diaphoretic, diathermal, diathermanous, ebullient, estiferous, estival, euthermic, fervent, fervid, fiery, genial, glowing, heated, heating, hidrotic, hot, hot as fire, hot as pepper, hot enough to roast an ox, igneous, ignescent, in a blaze, in a fever, in a glow, in a heat, in a perspiration, in a sweat, in flames, incalescent, incandescent, inflamed, inflammable, isotheral, isothermal, isothermic, kindling, like a furnace, like an oven, lukewarm, mild, molten, on fire, oppressive, piping-hot, plutonic, pyretic, red-hot, reeking, scumfished, semiustulate, smoking, smoking-hot, smoldering, sodden, stifling, stuffy, sudoriferous, sudorific, suffocating, sultry, sunny, sweltered, sweltering, sweltry, swullocking, tepid, thalpotic, thermal, thermic, torrid, tropical, unextinguished, unfrozen, unquenched, ustulated, volcanic, warm, warm as toast, warm as wool, white-hot
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| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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ablaze, actinic, anacamptic, beaming, beamy, blazing, bright, bright as day, bright as noonday, bright as silver, bright as the sun at noonday, burnished, circumfulgent, clear, cloudless, effulgent, epipolic, flimmering, fluorescent, fulgent, fulgid, fulgurant, fulgurous, gairish, garish, glassy, glossy, guttering, heliographic, in a blaze, incandescent, inenubilable, interlucent, irradiated, lambent, light, light as day, light as noonday, light as the sun at noonday, lightsome, lucent, lucid, luciferous, lucific, luculent, luminiferous, luminous, lustrous, meridian, meteoric, nitid, noonday, noontide, orient, phosphorescent, photic, photoelastic, photogenic, photographic, plenilunar, radiant, refractive, refulgent, resplendent, rutilant, scintillant, self, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendent, splendid, stroboscopic, sunny, transplendent, unclouded, unobscured, vivid
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| Concept: | Heat. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; heat |
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-nouns
heat, caloric; temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity; incalescence, incandescence; glow, flush; fever, hectic., phlogiston; fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze; bonfire; firework, pyrotechny; wildfire; sheet of fire, lambent flame; devouring element; adiathermancy; recalescence., summer, dog days; canicular days; baking heat, white heat, tropical heat, African heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, blood heat; sirocco, simoom; broiling sun; insolation; warming., sun (luminary)., [Science of heat] pyrology; thermology, thermotics; thermometer.
-verbs
be hot; glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, broil, blaze, flame; smolder; parch, fume, pant., heat (make hot); recalesce; thaw, give.
-adjectives
hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal, thermic; calorific; fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow., sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular; close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive; reeking; baking., red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning hot, piping hot; like a furnace, like an oven; hot as fire, hot as pepper; hot enough to roast an ox., fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling; in flames, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool., volcanic, plutonic, igneous; isothermal, isothermic, isotheral.
-phrases
not a breath of air; "whirlwinds of tempestuous fire" [Paradise Lost].
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| Antonyms: | cold |
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| Concept: | Light. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; light in general |
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light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil; sunbeam, moonbeam; aurora., day; sunshine; light of day, light of heaven; sun (luminary) light; daylight, broad daylight, noontide light; noontide, noonday., glow; glimmering; glint; play of light, flood of light; phosphorescence, lambent flame., flush, halo, glory, nimbus, aureola., spark, scintilla; facula; sparkling; emication, scintillation, flash, blaze, coruscation, fulguration; flame (fire); lightning, levin, ignis fatuus, (luminary) [more]., luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion, reflection; gloss, tinsel, spangle, brightness, brilliancy, splendor; effulgence, refulgence; fulgor, fulgidity; dazzlement, resplendence, transplendency; luminousness; luminosity; lucidity; renitency, nitency; radiance, radiation; irradiation, illumination., actinic rays, actinism; Roentgen-ray, X-ray; photography, heliography; photometer., [Science of light] optics; photology, photometry; dioptrics, catoptrics., [Distribution of light] chiaroscuro, clairobscur, clear obscure, breadth, light and shade, black and white, tonality., reflection, refraction, dispersion; refractivity.
-verbs
shine, glow, glitter; glister, glisten; twinkle, gleam; flare, flare up; glare, beam, shimmer, glimmer, flicker, sparkle, scintillate, coruscate, flash, blaze; be bright; reflect light, daze, dazzle, bedazzle, radiate, shoot out beams; fulgurate., clear up, brighten., lighten, enlighten; levin; light, light up; irradiate, shine upon; give out a light, hang out a light; cast light upon, cast light in, throw light upon, throw light in, shed light upon, shed luster upon; illume, illumine, illuminate; relume, strike a light; kindle (set fire to).
-adjectives
shining; luminous, luminiferous; lucid, lucent, luculent, lucific, luciferous; light, lightsome; bright, vivid, splendent, nitid, lustrous, shiny, beamy, scintillant, radiant, lambent; sheen, sheeny; glossy, burnished, glassy, sunny, orient, meridian; noonday, tide; cloudless, clear; unclouded, unobscured., gairish, garish; resplendent, transplendent; refulgent, effulgent; fulgid, fulgent; relucent, splendid, blazing, in a blaze, ablaze, rutilant, meteoric, phosphorescent; aglow. bright as silver; light as day, bright as day, light as noonday, bright as noonday, bright as the sun at noonday., actinic; photogenic, photographic; heliographic; heliophagous.
-phrases
"a day for gods to stoop and men to soar" [Tennyson]; "dark with excessive bright" [Milton].
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| Antonyms: | darkness |
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