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Lighting vs Outdoor - What's the difference?

lighting | outdoor |

As a noun lighting

is the equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.

As an adjective outdoor is

situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air.

lighting

English

Noun

(wikipedia lighting) (en noun)
  • The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.
  • The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.
  • * 2012 , Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense (page 142)
  • 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?
  • The process of annealing metals.
  • (Webster 1913)

    outdoor

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].}}

    Synonyms

    * out-of-door

    Antonyms

    * indoor

    Derived terms

    * outdoor education * outdoor play

    See also

    (Wikipedia)