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To start (a fire).

Example: We lit the fire to get some heat.

To set fire to; to set burning.

Example: She lit her last match.

To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark.

Example: I used my torch to light the way home through the woods in the night.

To become ignited; to take fire.

Example: This soggy match will not light.

Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure.

Example: The room is light when the Sun shines through the window.

Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma.

Example: She had light skin.

(of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.

Example: I like my coffee light.

To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter

To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.

Having little or relatively little actual weight; not cumbrous or unwieldy.

Example: a light load ; a lighter backpack after having removed the books ; light weapons

Having little weight as compared with bulk; of little density or specific gravity.

Example: feathers and cork are light ; oil is lighter than water

Of short or insufficient weight; weighing less than the legal, standard or proper amount; clipped or diminished.

Example: to issue light coin

Lacking that which burdens or makes heavy.

To find by chance.

Example: I lit upon a rare book in a second-hand bookseller's.

To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice

To alight; to land or come down.

Example: She fell out of the window but luckily lit on her feet.