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Oct 21, 2023 · A half-chuckle can be guttural or not, heavy or light. A chuckle is a short laugh, but the written 'sound' of a half-chuckle comes from the context of what elicits the half-chuckle. In the …

The idiomatic relationship between out like a light and falling asleep (or being rendered comatose) quickly is easily understood in the context of electric lights extinguished instantly by a switch...

Jan 28, 2012 · What is the difference between "turn out the lights" and "turn off the lights"? Are they interchangeable? Which one seems more appropriate if there is no difference?

Students sometimes distinguish between "light petting" and "heavy petting," meaning, by the former term, the milder and more restricted forms of endearment, and by the latter the more intimate, …

Jun 19, 2015 · Tyndall effect, also called Tyndall phenomenon, scattering of a beam of light by a medium containing small suspended particles—e.g., smoke or dust in a room, which makes visible a …

Fair-skinned is slightly narrower in meaning. A person may be called light-skinned if their skin color is a light brown, but not fair-skinned.

The definition "lacking lustre" above in the etymology uses the current definition of lustre. The OED's oldest definition of wan is: "Lacking light, or lustre; dark-hued, dusky, gloomy, dark. Obs. Chiefly …

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