noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cigarette lighter (= something that produces a flame for lighting cigarettes )
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Does anyone have a match or a cigarette lighter?
cigarette lighter
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cigarette
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She heard the hiss of a cigarette lighter , and opened her eyes.
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There were two auxiliary power sockets next to the cigarette lighter .
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It's a portable car phone that can be plugged into the socket of a cigarette lighter .
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There was a silver cigarette lighter in the desk drawer, he remembered, rarely used now that he'd almost given up.
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Traditionally, the rare earths have been used as catalysts in the chemical industry and in flints for cigarette lighters .
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Angry fists waved up, and some one threw something-a cigarette lighter ? - at me, striking my knee.
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Wristwatch, wallet, tie, cigarette lighter .
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Forensic evidence showed the fire had been started in two places, possibly by a cigarette lighter or match.
■ VERB
make
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Although the position of the hand is not affected, this does seem to make the handling lighter .
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Several newly found motifs have renewed our pilgrimage in recent days, though they have not made the task lighter .
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A general tendency towards making artillery lighter and more mobile can also be seen in the later decades of the century.
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The alterations to the piano included making the touch lighter and reducing the key-dip.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
on a lighter note/in a lighter vein
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A lighter is a rare commodity here.
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Fighters need lots of things but not big muscles - one look at any of the lighter boxing greats tells us that.
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I mean, an enamel lighter ?
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I snapped my lighter and the evening breeze promptly blew it out.
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If I had to do it again, I would travel lighter than I have.
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She heard the hiss of a cigarette lighter , and opened her eyes.
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The girl sits there muttering and shivering, with her last cigarette and an electric lighter .
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There were two auxiliary power sockets next to the cigarette lighter .