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Meanings of lighter in английском
русский
лихтер Synonyms
Examples for "barge"
Examples for "barge"
1
I sat in the stern of the barge to tend the drag-rope.
2
Luckily, we can use your badge to barge around and ask questions.
3
Everybody in Plymouth would know this barge, and its purpose here today.
4
The blockages have cost barge companies and other shippers millions of dollars.
5
On the 4th I got a passage in the barge to H.M.C.S.
1
The voice came, appropriately enough, from the barrel-shaped captain of the hoy.
2
There lay the hoy in which he was to sail.
3
His was the only white face in the hoy; the others were painted black.
4
The rude fishermen of the Kentish coast eyed the hoy with suspicion and with cupidity.
5
The hoy's boat was towing under the quarter; they hauled it in and scrambled down.
1
On the morrow the people in the flatboat came to say good-bye.
2
The launching of that flatboat was made a feast-day in the neighborhood.
3
A flatboat, with a man standing to the oars, bore down swiftly.
4
They had found the negro's flatboat, and carried it to the stream.
5
The early company went in a flatboat; these went in a round-bottom boat.
Usage of lighter in английском
1
Regulation was far lighter in the years preceding the world's financial crisis.
2
This was a wonderful opportunity to change the subject to lighter issues.
3
The leader is a dark-brown stallion; the mares are lighter in colour.
4
The lighter your skin, the lower you were in the social scale.
5
Despite all these concerns, he felt increasingly lighter as the days passed.
6
French forces in the Ivory Coast conflict are using lighter armoured vehicles.
7
I knew the minute it happened; she grew lighter in my arms.
8
Frannie went home feeling lighter at heart than she had for weeks.
9
It made the light-hearted lighter in heart, the light-minded heavy in soul.
10
Polyphony was used less; melodies were more song-like; the accompaniments were lighter.
11
They left her feeling they were better people, lighter in some way.
12
On the API scale, the higher the number the lighter the oil.
13
She felt lighter in spirit than she had in the last year.
14
The slimline design is also expected to result in a lighter device.
15
Lower temperatures meant lighter, piney colors; higher temperatures led to darker hues.
16
The potential for lighter regulation added to his enthusiasm for the sector.
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Lighter through the time
Lighter across language varieties
South Africa
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United States of America
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Australia
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