lit

[lit]

If something's lit, it's illuminated with light from a lamp or other source. Your romantic dinner table might be lit only with flickering candles.

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, a form of the imp. & p. p. of Light.

Noun
the humanistic study of a body of literature; "he took a course in Russian lit"

Adjective S.
provided with artificial light; "illuminated advertising"; "looked up at the lighted windows"; "a brightly lit room"; "a well-lighted stairwell"

Adjective
set afire or burning; "the lighted candles"; "a lighted cigarette"; "a lit firecracker"



of Light


a form of the imp. & p. p. of Light.


Lit

Lit , a form of the imp. & p. p. of Light.

, a form of the imp. & p. p. of Light.

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Usage Examples

And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used.

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

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