uplight
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 7
Definition of uplight
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A recessed light fixture that directs the light in an upward direction.
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noun
- A recessed light fixture that directs the light in an upward direction.
verb
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(transitive)To light up, illuminate.
“Save in the withered woods alone, where flashing bolts from Heaven Uplit the scene, and poured the fire, amid the branches riven.”
- (transitive)To illuminate from below.
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Etymology
From up- + light. Compare Saterland Frisian apljuchte (“to illuminate”), West Frisian opljochtsje (“to illuminate”), Dutch oplichten (“to illuminate”), German Low German upluchten, uplüchten (“to illuminate”), German aufleuchten (“to illuminate”).
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