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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

chain-light en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To light a new cigarette with the burning stub of one's previous cigarette.
    • He chain-lit a fresh cigarette and flicked the old butt, still smouldering, into the steel ash-can beside his drawing table. 1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 32:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
chain-lighted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
chain-lighted Tense=Past lexicographic
chain-lit Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
chain-lit Tense=Past lexicographic
chain-lighting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
chain-lights Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic