ALIGHT


Meaning of ALIGHT in English

I. adjective

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

set the world on fire/alight

And now we have Sliver which was the subject of much wrangling and hasn't exactly set the world on fire.

But if Rhodes hasn't set the world on fire with his batting, he certainly has with his fielding.

Either way, the speed and acceleration is not going to set the world on fire.

It was a lovely accomplishment, of course, but nothing to set the world on fire with.

None of the three papers was going to set the world on fire.

The sonorities glow, and the whole thing is user-friendly without setting the world on fire.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A single standard lamp was alight .

But it stayed alight and soon began to burn merrily.

Further timber was then heaped round the base, soaked in paraffin and then set alight .

He broke in, set a parachute alight and then went back to start a better one.

Mr Chittenden had already doused himself in a flammable liquid and set himself alight .

Often she fell asleep with the candle still alight .

She waited until he grew nearer and then walked up to him, her face alight .

Something else was alight in the undergrowth.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

set

The sun set alight the water drops that speckled their leaves and shadowed the ground beneath them.

world

They could have set the world alight .

The film itself didn't set the world alight , but critics and movie-makers were impressed with the young stars.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A returning female alights within a few feet of where she last left her baby.

As the tram was between stops, they were unable to alight .

Before I could alight from the carriage she was hastily walking away.

Then a great orange-and-black butterfly alighted on her knee.

We alighted from the aircraft steps on to the only paved surface on the island.

When Carver alighted outside the Hilton in Park Lane the limo drove past at speed.

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