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lighting-up

lighting-up

7.2
The time when lights are turned on in a town or on vehicles after dark
  • noun
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  • In many countries, the lighting-up of vehicle headlights is mandatory at night.

Examples

  • The lighting-up of the streetlights made the neighborhood feel safer after dark.

  • The lighting-up of the festive decorations marked the beginning of the holiday season.

  • It's, it's a, it's a lighting up the emotional centre, lights up the memory.

  • Also, you know, there's this bulbs right up here, you know, the lighting up the whole studio where we're shooting.

Surface Forms

lighting-up singular
lighting-ups plural

Morphology

lighting-up = light + up (transparent) = light + up + ing

Formed by adding -ing to the phrasal verb 'light up' to denote the action or time of turning lights on; meaning is directly inferable from its parts.

Etymology

The word lighting-up is made from light and up, where light means 'to make bright' and up gives the idea of 'on' or 'started'. So lighting-up means the act or time of turning lights on, like when a town 'lights up' for a celebration, and it also names the time drivers must put on their headlights.