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Lighting vs Lights - What's the difference?

lighting | lights |

As nouns the difference between lighting and lights

is that lighting is the equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided while lights is .

As a verb lights is

(light).

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)

    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