different between alight vs aline
alight
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?-l?t', IPA(key): /??la?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English alighten, from a merger of Old English ?l?htan (“to alight, dismount”), from prefix ?- (compare Gothic ????????- (us-), German er- originally meaning "out") + l?htan (“to alight”); and Old English ?el?htan (“to alight, approach, come, come down, dismount”); equivalent to a- +? light (“to dismount”).
Verb
alight (third-person singular simple present alights, present participle alighting, simple past and past participle alighted or alit)
- (intransitive, alone or with from) To get off or exit a vehicle or animal; to descend; to dismount.
- Passengers are alighting from the carriage.
- (intransitive, with on or at) To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop.
- 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- Now when he had reached the King's capital wherein was Alaeddin, he alighted at one of the Kháns; and, when he had rested from the weariness of wayfare, he donned his dress and went down to wander about the streets, where he never passed a group without hearing them prate about the pavilion and its grandeur and vaunt the beauty of Alaeddin and his lovesomeness, his liberality and generosity, his fine manners and his good morals.
- 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- (intransitive, followed by upon) To find by accident; to come upon.
- (intransitive) To befall or betide.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iii:
- His fearefull friends weare out the wofull night, / Ne dare to weepe, nor seeme to vnderstand / The heauie hap, which on them is alight, / Affraid, least to themselues the like mishappen might.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iii:
Synonyms
- unlight
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English alighten, from a merger of Old English ?l?htan (“to lighten, relieve, alleviate, take off, take away, alight”) and Old English ?el?htan (“to lighten, mitigate, assuage”); equivalent to a- +? light.
Verb
alight (third-person singular simple present alights, present participle alighting, simple past and past participle alighted)
- (transitive) To make light or less heavy; lighten; alleviate.
Etymology 3
From Middle English alighten, from Old English ?l?htan (“to light up, enlighten”); equivalent to a- +? light. Cognate with German erleuchten (“to light up, illuminate”).
Verb
alight (third-person singular simple present alights, present participle alighting, simple past and past participle alit or alighted)
- (transitive) To light; light up; illuminate.
- (transitive) To set light to; light.
Etymology 4
From Middle English alight, from Old English *?l?hted, past participle of ?l?htan (“to alight”); see above.
Alternative forms
- alighted
Adjective
alight (not comparable)
- Lit, on fire, switched on.
- (figuratively) Lit; on fire, burning.
Usage notes
Used only as a predicative.
Translations
References
- “alight”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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aline
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??la?n/, /æ?la?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
Etymology 1
From a- +? line, possibly from Middle English alinen (“copulate”), Middle French aligner.
Verb
aline (third-person singular simple present alines, present participle alining, simple past and past participle alined)
- Obsolete form of align. or misspelling
Etymology 2
From Middle English aline (“in line”)
Adverb
aline (comparative more aline, superlative most aline)
- In line
Derived terms
- alinement
Anagrams
- Elain, Elian, Elina, Nelia, alien, anile, elain, laine, liane, linea
Middle English
Etymology
a- +? line.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?li?n(?)/
Adverb
aline
- In (a straight) line.
- c. 1400, Chaucer
- c. 1400, Chaucer
References
- “al?ne, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [a?line]
Verb
aline
- third-person singular present subjunctive of alina
- third-person plural present subjunctive of alina
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