What is the difference between lighting and gaffer?
lighting | gaffer |
The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, 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)
(film) A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production.
A glassblower.
* 2003 , Jennifer Bosveld, Glass Works (page 18)
(colloquial) An old man.
(British) A foreman.
An "Old Gaffer" is a sailor.
In Maritime regions "the Little Gaffer" is the baby in the house.
As nouns the difference between lighting and gaffer
is that lighting is the equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided while gaffer is (film) a chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production or gaffer can be (colloquial) an old man.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?
gaffer
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) + (-er). The natural lighting on early film sets was adjusted by opening and closing flaps in the tent cloths, called gaff cloths or gaff flaps.Noun
(en noun)- The apprentice carries a gather of glass on the blowpipe to the gaffer' s bench