Lighting vs Enlighten - What's the difference?
lighting | enlighten |
The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.
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, title= The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.
* 2012 , Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense (page 142)
The process of annealing metals.
(Webster 1913)
To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth.
To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding.
As a noun lighting
is the equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.As a verb enlighten is
to supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth.lighting
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(wikipedia lighting) (en noun)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
- We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings , so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?