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lights
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lights  (lts)
pl.n.
The lungs, especially the lungs of an animal slaughtered for food.

[Middle English lightes, from light, light in weight (from the lightness of the lungs compared to other organs); see light2.]

lights1
pl n
a person's ideas, knowledge, or understanding he did it according to his lights

lights2
pl n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Veterinary Science) the lungs, esp of sheep, bullocks, and pigs, used for feeding pets and occasionally in human food
[plural noun use of light2, referring to the light weight of the lungs]

lights
  • day - One of the perpendicular divisions or "lights" of a mullioned window.
  • blackout - Originally a theatrical term for the extinguishing of all lights on the stage when scenery was shifted.
  • taps, last post - Taps, the bugle call for lights out, was originally a drum roll and got its name from the tapping of the drums; taps are also called last post.
  • twilight - The time of two lights, the fading sunset and the emerging light of the moon and stars; there are three sequential stages of twilight: civil twilight, nautical twilight, and astronomical twilight.
  • Translations
    lights
    pl (Anat) → Tierlunge f
    lights [laɪts] npl (old) (of animal) → polmone m


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