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Lighter vs. brighter - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I'm trying to find information about the grammatical correctness of interchanging lighter and brighter in the sense of: I turned on the lamp and the room became lighter I turned on the lamp
light at the end of the tunnel earliest occurrence In April of 1947, when the Commission began its work, that dim light at the end of the tunnel was so dim as to be no light at all Russia, an Russia only, among the great nations of the earth, has been unwilling to take those steps which might make that dim light brighter
etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange My girlfriend uses “brights” to mean what I call “high beams”, as in the brighter headlights on a car We grew up in different parts of the world, and I had not heard that term before I am wonderi
I am searching for a word or phrase that describes reflected light . . . More specifically, a caustic is where light is either reflected or refracted such that it is concentrated in an area that is brighter than the surroundings -- so it's the bright lines that are seen on the bottom of a swimming pool, but not the space between them (even though that space also is receiving reflected or refracted rays)
Blond hair and Fair hair - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Blonde is brighter than fair It has the following - either, or both: lighter toned overall more yellow in it It tends to look 'sunnier' and more dramatic, brighter than fair hair There's also a much whiter blonde - like an Icelandic or Nordic blonde - 'ice blonde' As seen in 'Legolas' the warrior elf in the movie 'The Lord Of The Rings' c 2001
Which is higher — hyper-, ultra- or super-? According to OED, hyper-: over, beyond, over much, above measure ultra-: beyond super-: over, above, higher than They all have the meaning "higher than", but what is the order of them
Is it true that English has no future tense? The common way to form what is termed the future in English is will shall + bare infinitive: In 3 5 billion years, the sun will be 40 percent brighter than it is right now, which will cause the oceans to boil, the ice caps to permanently melt, and all water vapor in the atmosphere to be lost to space