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alight 音標拼音: [əl'ɑɪt] a. 點燃的,燒著的,照亮的
v. 飛落,降落,下來;偶然發現,碰見 點燃的,燒著的,照亮的飛落,降落,下來;偶然發現,碰見 alight adj 1: lighted up by or as by fire or flame; " forests set ablaze ( or afire) by lightning"; " even the car' s tires were aflame"; " a night aflare with fireworks"; " candles alight on the tables"; " houses on fire" [ synonym: { ablaze( p)}, { afire( p)}, { aflame( p)}, { aflare( p)}, { alight( p)}, { on fire( p)}] v 1: to come to rest, settle; " Misfortune lighted upon him" [ synonym: { alight}, { light}, { perch}] 2: come down; " the birds alighted" [ synonym: { alight}, { climb down}] Alight \ A* light"\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Alighted} sometimes { Alit}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Alighting}.] [ OE. alihten, fr. AS. [= a] l[ imac] htan; pref. [= a]- ( cf. Goth. us-, G. er-, orig. meaning out) l[ imac] htan, to alight, orig. to render light, to remove a burden from, fr. l[ imac] ht, leoht, light. See { Light}, v. i.] 1. To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To come or chance ( upon). [ R.] [ 1913 Webster]
Alight \ A* light"\, a. [ Pref. a- light.] Lighted; lighted up; in a flame. " The lamps were alight." -- Dickens. [ 1913 Webster] 115 Moby Thesaurus words for " alight": ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, ardent, bathed with light, bespangled, blazing, bright, brightened, burning, candent, candescent, candlelit, climb down, comburent, come down, come in, come to land, conflagrant, crash- land, debark, debus, deplane, descend, detrain, disembark, disemplane, dismount, ditch, dock, downwind, drop, drop anchor, effulgent, enlightened, fall, fiery, firelit, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flickering, fulgent, fuming, gaslit, get down, get off, glowing, go ashore, guttering, ignescent, ignited, illuminated, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, irradiate, irradiated, kindled, lamplit, land, lanternlit, level off, light, lighted, lightened, lit, lit up, live, living, luminous, make a landfall, make land, make port, moonlit, moor, on fire, overshoot, pancake, perch, put in, put into port, reach land, reeking, refulgent, roost, scintillant, scintillating, set down, settle, settle down, sit down, smoking, smoldering, spangled, sparking, star- spangled, star- studded, starlit, studded, sunlit, talk down, tie up, tinseled, touch down, tumble, unboat, unextinguished, unhorse, unquenched, upwind
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