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Lights vs Alights - What's the difference?

lights | alights |

As verbs the difference between lights and alights

is that lights is third-person singular of light while alights is third-person singular of alight.

As a noun lights

is plural of lang=en.

lights

English

Noun

(head)
  • The lungs, now only of an animal (being lighter than adjacent parts).
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.3:
  • *:But forst him gape and gaspe, with dread aghast, / As if his lungs and lites were nigh asunder brast.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (light)

    • Anagrams

    * slight

    alights

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (alight)

    • alight

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) alighten, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make light or less heavy; lighten; alleviate.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) alighten, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (with from) To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.
    • Passengers are alighting from the carriage
  • (with on) To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop.
    • A flying bird alights on a tree
    Snow alights on a roof .
  • To come or chance (upon).

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) alighten, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To light; light up; illuminate.
  • To set light to; light.

    • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) alight, from (etyl) *. See above.

    Alternative forms

    *

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Lit, on fire, switched on.
    • The sticks were damp and wouldn't catch alight .
  • (figuratively) Lit; on fire, burning.
    • Her face was alight with happiness.
    Usage notes
    Used only as a predicative.