English Dictionary

lighting

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈlaɪtɪŋ/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided. / The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc. / The process of annealing metals.

日本語の意味

照明装置、照明機器（光を提供する装置またはその照明そのもの） / 照明を点ける行為、または点灯する動作（例：機器の作動や火が灯ること） / 金属の焼きなましの工程（アニーリングのプロセス）

The theater's new lighting transformed every scene into a vivid spectacle.

劇場の新しい照明設備が、すべての場面を鮮やかな見せ場に変えた。

意味（1）

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

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.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.

意味（2）

The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.

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?

意味（3）

The process of annealing metals.

lightings （ plural ）