What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Tights vs Lights - What's the difference?

tights | lights |

As nouns the difference between tights and lights

is that tights is a close-fitting, sheer or non-sheer skin-tight garment worn principally by women and girls that covers the body completely from the waist down, usually including the feet while lights is .

As a verb lights is

(light).

tights

English

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • A close-fitting, sheer or non-sheer skin-tight garment worn principally by women and girls that covers the body completely from the waist down, usually including the feet.
  • A similar, non-sheer garment worn by dancers of either sex, especially by ballet dancers.
  • In blasting rock, a piece of unbroken rock within the pay limit of a blast.

    • Synonyms

    * (sense, woman's garment) hose, pantyhose (US) * (sense, dancer's garment)

    Usage notes

    US English uses the term pantyhose to refer to sheer tights.

    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