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brights | blights |

As a noun brights

is plural of brightCategory:English plurals.

As a verb blights is

third-person singular of blight.

brights

English

Noun

(head)
  • English plurals
  • (US, plurale tantum) The high-beam intensity of motor vehicle headlamps.
    • Your brights are on.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year = 1963
    • , month = July , magazine = (Popular Mechanics) , title = Keeping Your Headlights on the Beam , first = Morton J. , last = Schultz , issn = 0032-4558 , page = 161 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=C-MDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA161&dq=brights , passage = Drop your brights as soon as approaching lights appear. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup, date = 2004-07-18
    • , author = Rocky Roads , newsgroup = misc.transport.trucking , title = Re: big rig out of control (Photo) , id = cdearo$ufn@library2.airnews.net , url = https://groups.google.com/group/misc.transport.trucking/msg/cb1c24c776fa497c , passage = You can turn your brights on and that helps quite a bit, but you can not leave them on. So you end up driving beyond your headlights more than half the time. }}
  • * {{quote-book, date = 2006-03-31
    • , title = Hunting the American Werewolf: Beast Men in Wisconsin and Beyond , first = Linda S. , last = Godfrey , location = Madison , publisher = Trails Books , isbn = 9781931599665 , ol = 8804200M , page = 139 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=D0oLhatcGxAC&pg=PA139&dq=brights , passage = The moment I flashed my brights this animal started to run across the road. }}

    blights

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (blight)

    • blight

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia blight)
  • any of many plant diseases causing damage to, or the death of, leaves, fruit or other parts
  • the bacterium, virus or fungus that causes such a condition
  • (by extension) anything that impedes growth or development or spoils any other aspect of life

    • Derived terms

    * alder blight * American blight * aphis-blight * apple blight * bean blight * beet blight * blight bird * blight canker * blight in the eye * blight-beetle * blighted * blighty * blister blight * cane blight * celery blight * chestnut blight * coffee blight * collar blight * early blight * fire blight, fireblight * frictional blight * functional blight * fusarium ear blight, fusarium head blight * green blight * halo blight * head blight * kernel blight * late blight * leaf blight * moth blight * needle blight * northern corn-leaf blight, northern leaf blight * oak blight * peach blight * pear blight * pine blight * planning blight * potato blight * rim blight * sandy blight * seedling blight * southern blight * Sphaeropsis blight * spinach blight * spur blight * stamen blight * stem blight * stripe blight * thread blight * tomato blight * twig blight * urban blight * walnut blight

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
  • * Woodward
    • [This vapour] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man.
  • To suffer blight.
    • This vine never blights .
  • to spoil or ruin (something)
    • Those obscene tattoos are going to blight your job prospects.
  • * Byron
    • seared in heart and lone and blighted

    Derived terms

    * blighter * blighting * blightingly

    References