Definition of gaslight in English:

gaslight

nounPlural gaslights ˈɡaslʌɪtˈɡæslaɪt

1A type of lamp in which an incandescent mantle is heated by a jet of burning gas.
an era of gaslights and horse-drawn carriages
Example sentencesExamples
- It's a shame that gaslights are no longer around, but you can still enjoy deliciously spook atmosphere in the darker streets, and glamour around Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.
- It was hard to make out the stars because of the gaslights below the building, but she had a better view here then the one she had in London.
- Landscaping officer Cowling said staff were trying to confirm with historians a story that Maldon was the last place in the country to have working gaslights.
- The gaslights were few and far between on Water Street.
- Every touch is just right - from the titular gaslights, which flicker eerily in the darkness, to the intensely cramped Victorian-era London house that Paula and Gregory occupy.
- In the lobby of the police station in Court Square, he looked up from his notepad, squinting at the gaslight after a long engagement with a sheet of paper.
- Central heating and gaslights were included in the architect's specifications, followed a little later by the introduction of electricity throughout the house.
- As paved roads, the telegraph, telephone lines, gaslights, and electric lines caused the city to change, so did the CPD.
- In 1878, he established Edison Electric Light Company and announced plans to invent safe electric lights to take the place of Shanghai's dangerous gaslights.
- In the theaters, the gaslights are going out, replaced by flat, bright electric illumination.
- Did this include the re-introduction of gaslights?
- Street gaslights add their glow to the swimming moonshine and are reflected in the siren's diamond coronet and huge dark eyes that know the secrets of the deep.
- Like railroads, gaslights were instrumental stimulants for industrial growth.
- Inside the main room, there is an ornate gaslight in each corner.
- I watched his bulky frame receding beneath the gaslight as we pulled away.
- Electric lighting was such a powerful symbol of progress that early lighting fixtures proudly flaunted bare bulbs so that no one would dare mistake them for gaslights.
- Turning on the gaslight, hoping that he wouldn't notice the tatty furniture and peeling brown wallpaper, she stepped into his arms, tilting her head so that he had no choice but to bring his lips down onto hers.
- And no city sells its gaslights and cobblestones better than Charleston, largely because so much of it is both authentic and charming.
- What had it come to beyond the gaslights and wood fires?
- Then she blew out the gaslight and took the pot and spoon to the table.
1. 1.1mass noun The light produced by a gaslight.
  in the gaslight she looked paler than ever
  Example sentencesExamples
  Fashionable Victorians flocked to promenade through this new underwater marvel, an amazing twin-bore arched corridor lit by flickering gaslight.
  His eyes were an unusual green color that gave off a faint luminescence in the gaslight.
  The color was particularly brilliant beneath the gaslight of the theater.
  The first public gas company in the world was set up in London in 1812, and Westminster Bridge was the first public thoroughfare to be illuminated by gaslight.
  As late as the early 1900s, older houses with gaslight were still being retrofitted for electricity.
  Edison designed this distribution system to compete with gaslight on price, while offering brighter and safer illumination.
  ‘Van Gogh mentioned in his letters that his paintings looked different in daylight and gaslight,’ said Bluhm.
  The author shows how gaslight gave the night walker the experience of poetry and irrationality.
  Galleries were generally lit by skylights, although by the later nineteenth century many commercial art galleries were using gaslight in order to stay open after dark.
  It was much like modern gallery openings, except that it was held during the afternoon so that gaslight would not throw off the subtleties of Whistler's harmonies.
  It is the only cinema, perhaps in the country, certainly in the region, that still uses gaslight.
  Members of Britain's Bowler family, enacting a Victorian lifestyle for PBS's ‘The 1900 House,’ have to read by gaslight and boil their laundry.
  The same decade saw the foundation of the South Kensington Museum, endowed with an exemplary collection for craftsmen to learn from, and soon lit by gaslight in order to encourage working people to visit the collections in the evening.
  As Nead compellingly demonstrates, the volatile magic of gaslight lent enchantment and vitality to the pursuit of pleasure after dark, recreating the city as a vast stage set or Benjaminesque phantasmagoria.
  Synonyms
  illumination, brightness, luminescence, luminosity, shining, gleaming, gleam, brilliance, radiance, lustre, glowing, glow, blaze, glare, dazzle

verbgaslights, gaslighted, gaslighting ˈɡaslʌɪtˈɡæslaɪt

[with object]

Manipulate (someone) by psychological means into doubting their own sanity.
in the first episode, Karen Valentine is being gaslighted by her husband
Example sentencesExamples
- If he is truly "gaslighting" you then he is not following the Christian guidelines of a marriage.
- I've also realized she's been gaslighting me for months now; causing me to doubt myself and how I've handled things.
- A husband who tells his wife that she suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder when she becomes frustrated because she is consistently being told that things that were said or done didn't happen, is gaslighting his wife.
- He gaslighted Christina, humiliated and mentally tortured her, and shamelessly went after her money pretending to be investing it for her.
- There is a perpetrator and a victim here, and the late Neil Jacobsen and I have called this kind of mind control "gaslighting," after the movie with Ingrid Bergman.
- I'm pretty sure a coworker is gaslighting me.
- She gaslights her mother into a pitiable downfall.
- You're gaslighting me.
- Is this normal, or am I being gaslighted?
- We've always argued, but lately she's accusing me of gaslighting her.
- How do you know if you are being gaslighted?
- She gaslights him into believing he is developing superpowers.
- They will try to control the situation in such a way that the person who was gaslighted is kept away from other associates.
- Sharlene agreed to participate in Gary's plan to gaslight Grant and slipped a drug into Grant's drink.
- She believes that he is literally trying to drive her crazy, gaslighting her with an elaborate series of small, malicious acts of vandalism and theft performed by her quickly shifting cast of household help.
- He had no memory of the incidents. 'I thought she was trying to gaslight me.'
- He professed to be hurt and affronted by suggestions that he was just trying to gaslight a competitor's customers.

Derivatives

gaslit

adjective ˈɡasˌlɪtˈɡæslɪt

Illuminated by gaslight.
the gaslit streets of Victorian London
Example sentencesExamples
- From that came all the images of some upper-class fellow in a top hat and cape skulking through foggy gaslit Whitechapel.
- Anopheles mosquitoes prefer nocturnal feedings; their habit of flying toward light sources may have made them especially obnoxious in gaslit rooms with open windows.
- Torontonians can celebrate Hogmanay with live and traditional music in the gaslit surroundings of Mackenzie House.

Definition of gaslight in US English:

gaslight

nounˈɡæslaɪtˈɡaslīt

1A type of lamp in which an incandescent mantle is heated by a jet of burning gas.
Example sentencesExamples
- Did this include the re-introduction of gaslights?
- In the lobby of the police station in Court Square, he looked up from his notepad, squinting at the gaslight after a long engagement with a sheet of paper.
- Central heating and gaslights were included in the architect's specifications, followed a little later by the introduction of electricity throughout the house.
- The gaslights were few and far between on Water Street.
- And no city sells its gaslights and cobblestones better than Charleston, largely because so much of it is both authentic and charming.
- Every touch is just right - from the titular gaslights, which flicker eerily in the darkness, to the intensely cramped Victorian-era London house that Paula and Gregory occupy.
- Then she blew out the gaslight and took the pot and spoon to the table.
- In 1878, he established Edison Electric Light Company and announced plans to invent safe electric lights to take the place of Shanghai's dangerous gaslights.
- It was hard to make out the stars because of the gaslights below the building, but she had a better view here then the one she had in London.
- Street gaslights add their glow to the swimming moonshine and are reflected in the siren's diamond coronet and huge dark eyes that know the secrets of the deep.
- Inside the main room, there is an ornate gaslight in each corner.
- What had it come to beyond the gaslights and wood fires?
- Landscaping officer Cowling said staff were trying to confirm with historians a story that Maldon was the last place in the country to have working gaslights.
- In the theaters, the gaslights are going out, replaced by flat, bright electric illumination.
- It's a shame that gaslights are no longer around, but you can still enjoy deliciously spook atmosphere in the darker streets, and glamour around Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.
- As paved roads, the telegraph, telephone lines, gaslights, and electric lines caused the city to change, so did the CPD.
- I watched his bulky frame receding beneath the gaslight as we pulled away.
- Turning on the gaslight, hoping that he wouldn't notice the tatty furniture and peeling brown wallpaper, she stepped into his arms, tilting her head so that he had no choice but to bring his lips down onto hers.
- Electric lighting was such a powerful symbol of progress that early lighting fixtures proudly flaunted bare bulbs so that no one would dare mistake them for gaslights.
- Like railroads, gaslights were instrumental stimulants for industrial growth.
1. 1.1 The light produced by a gas lamp.
  in the gaslight she looked paler than ever
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is the only cinema, perhaps in the country, certainly in the region, that still uses gaslight.
  The author shows how gaslight gave the night walker the experience of poetry and irrationality.
  The same decade saw the foundation of the South Kensington Museum, endowed with an exemplary collection for craftsmen to learn from, and soon lit by gaslight in order to encourage working people to visit the collections in the evening.
  Galleries were generally lit by skylights, although by the later nineteenth century many commercial art galleries were using gaslight in order to stay open after dark.
  Fashionable Victorians flocked to promenade through this new underwater marvel, an amazing twin-bore arched corridor lit by flickering gaslight.
  The first public gas company in the world was set up in London in 1812, and Westminster Bridge was the first public thoroughfare to be illuminated by gaslight.
  The color was particularly brilliant beneath the gaslight of the theater.
  It was much like modern gallery openings, except that it was held during the afternoon so that gaslight would not throw off the subtleties of Whistler's harmonies.
  Members of Britain's Bowler family, enacting a Victorian lifestyle for PBS's ‘The 1900 House,’ have to read by gaslight and boil their laundry.
  As Nead compellingly demonstrates, the volatile magic of gaslight lent enchantment and vitality to the pursuit of pleasure after dark, recreating the city as a vast stage set or Benjaminesque phantasmagoria.
  As late as the early 1900s, older houses with gaslight were still being retrofitted for electricity.
  ‘Van Gogh mentioned in his letters that his paintings looked different in daylight and gaslight,’ said Bluhm.
  Edison designed this distribution system to compete with gaslight on price, while offering brighter and safer illumination.
  His eyes were an unusual green color that gave off a faint luminescence in the gaslight.
  Synonyms
  illumination, brightness, luminescence, luminosity, shining, gleaming, gleam, brilliance, radiance, lustre, glowing, glow, blaze, glare, dazzle

verbˈɡæslaɪtˈɡaslīt

[with object]

Manipulate (someone) by psychological means into questioning their own sanity.
in the first episode, Karen Valentine is being gaslighted by her husband
Example sentencesExamples
- Is this normal, or am I being gaslighted?
- How do you know if you are being gaslighted?
- They will try to control the situation in such a way that the person who was gaslighted is kept away from other associates.
- She gaslights her mother into a pitiable downfall.
- He had no memory of the incidents. 'I thought she was trying to gaslight me.'
- There is a perpetrator and a victim here, and the late Neil Jacobsen and I have called this kind of mind control "gaslighting," after the movie with Ingrid Bergman.
- You're gaslighting me.
- He professed to be hurt and affronted by suggestions that he was just trying to gaslight a competitor's customers.
- She believes that he is literally trying to drive her crazy, gaslighting her with an elaborate series of small, malicious acts of vandalism and theft performed by her quickly shifting cast of household help.
- I've also realized she's been gaslighting me for months now; causing me to doubt myself and how I've handled things.
- A husband who tells his wife that she suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder when she becomes frustrated because she is consistently being told that things that were said or done didn't happen, is gaslighting his wife.
- He gaslighted Christina, humiliated and mentally tortured her, and shamelessly went after her money pretending to be investing it for her.
- I'm pretty sure a coworker is gaslighting me.
- We've always argued, but lately she's accusing me of gaslighting her.
- Sharlene agreed to participate in Gary's plan to gaslight Grant and slipped a drug into Grant's drink.
- She gaslights him into believing he is developing superpowers.
- If he is truly "gaslighting" you then he is not following the Christian guidelines of a marriage.

单词	gaslight
释义	Definition of gaslight in English: gaslight nounPlural gaslights ˈɡaslʌɪtˈɡæslaɪt 1A type of lamp in which an incandescent mantle is heated by a jet of burning gas. an era of gaslights and horse-drawn carriages Example sentencesExamples It's a shame that gaslights are no longer around, but you can still enjoy deliciously spook atmosphere in the darker streets, and glamour around Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. It was hard to make out the stars because of the gaslights below the building, but she had a better view here then the one she had in London. Landscaping officer Cowling said staff were trying to confirm with historians a story that Maldon was the last place in the country to have working gaslights. The gaslights were few and far between on Water Street. Every touch is just right - from the titular gaslights, which flicker eerily in the darkness, to the intensely cramped Victorian-era London house that Paula and Gregory occupy. In the lobby of the police station in Court Square, he looked up from his notepad, squinting at the gaslight after a long engagement with a sheet of paper. Central heating and gaslights were included in the architect's specifications, followed a little later by the introduction of electricity throughout the house. As paved roads, the telegraph, telephone lines, gaslights, and electric lines caused the city to change, so did the CPD. In 1878, he established Edison Electric Light Company and announced plans to invent safe electric lights to take the place of Shanghai's dangerous gaslights. In the theaters, the gaslights are going out, replaced by flat, bright electric illumination. Did this include the re-introduction of gaslights? Street gaslights add their glow to the swimming moonshine and are reflected in the siren's diamond coronet and huge dark eyes that know the secrets of the deep. Like railroads, gaslights were instrumental stimulants for industrial growth. Inside the main room, there is an ornate gaslight in each corner. I watched his bulky frame receding beneath the gaslight as we pulled away. Electric lighting was such a powerful symbol of progress that early lighting fixtures proudly flaunted bare bulbs so that no one would dare mistake them for gaslights. Turning on the gaslight, hoping that he wouldn't notice the tatty furniture and peeling brown wallpaper, she stepped into his arms, tilting her head so that he had no choice but to bring his lips down onto hers. And no city sells its gaslights and cobblestones better than Charleston, largely because so much of it is both authentic and charming. What had it come to beyond the gaslights and wood fires? Then she blew out the gaslight and took the pot and spoon to the table. 1.1mass noun The light produced by a gaslight. in the gaslight she looked paler than ever Example sentencesExamples Fashionable Victorians flocked to promenade through this new underwater marvel, an amazing twin-bore arched corridor lit by flickering gaslight. His eyes were an unusual green color that gave off a faint luminescence in the gaslight. The color was particularly brilliant beneath the gaslight of the theater. The first public gas company in the world was set up in London in 1812, and Westminster Bridge was the first public thoroughfare to be illuminated by gaslight. As late as the early 1900s, older houses with gaslight were still being retrofitted for electricity. Edison designed this distribution system to compete with gaslight on price, while offering brighter and safer illumination. ‘Van Gogh mentioned in his letters that his paintings looked different in daylight and gaslight,’ said Bluhm. The author shows how gaslight gave the night walker the experience of poetry and irrationality. Galleries were generally lit by skylights, although by the later nineteenth century many commercial art galleries were using gaslight in order to stay open after dark. It was much like modern gallery openings, except that it was held during the afternoon so that gaslight would not throw off the subtleties of Whistler's harmonies. It is the only cinema, perhaps in the country, certainly in the region, that still uses gaslight. Members of Britain's Bowler family, enacting a Victorian lifestyle for PBS's ‘The 1900 House,’ have to read by gaslight and boil their laundry. The same decade saw the foundation of the South Kensington Museum, endowed with an exemplary collection for craftsmen to learn from, and soon lit by gaslight in order to encourage working people to visit the collections in the evening. As Nead compellingly demonstrates, the volatile magic of gaslight lent enchantment and vitality to the pursuit of pleasure after dark, recreating the city as a vast stage set or Benjaminesque phantasmagoria. Synonyms illumination, brightness, luminescence, luminosity, shining, gleaming, gleam, brilliance, radiance, lustre, glowing, glow, blaze, glare, dazzle verbgaslights, gaslighted, gaslighting ˈɡaslʌɪtˈɡæslaɪt [with object] Manipulate (someone) by psychological means into doubting their own sanity. in the first episode, Karen Valentine is being gaslighted by her husband Example sentencesExamples If he is truly "gaslighting" you then he is not following the Christian guidelines of a marriage. I've also realized she's been gaslighting me for months now; causing me to doubt myself and how I've handled things. A husband who tells his wife that she suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder when she becomes frustrated because she is consistently being told that things that were said or done didn't happen, is gaslighting his wife. He gaslighted Christina, humiliated and mentally tortured her, and shamelessly went after her money pretending to be investing it for her. There is a perpetrator and a victim here, and the late Neil Jacobsen and I have called this kind of mind control "gaslighting," after the movie with Ingrid Bergman. I'm pretty sure a coworker is gaslighting me. She gaslights her mother into a pitiable downfall. You're gaslighting me. Is this normal, or am I being gaslighted? We've always argued, but lately she's accusing me of gaslighting her. How do you know if you are being gaslighted? She gaslights him into believing he is developing superpowers. They will try to control the situation in such a way that the person who was gaslighted is kept away from other associates. Sharlene agreed to participate in Gary's plan to gaslight Grant and slipped a drug into Grant's drink. She believes that he is literally trying to drive her crazy, gaslighting her with an elaborate series of small, malicious acts of vandalism and theft performed by her quickly shifting cast of household help. He had no memory of the incidents. 'I thought she was trying to gaslight me.' He professed to be hurt and affronted by suggestions that he was just trying to gaslight a competitor's customers. Derivatives gaslit adjective ˈɡasˌlɪtˈɡæslɪt Illuminated by gaslight. the gaslit streets of Victorian London Example sentencesExamples From that came all the images of some upper-class fellow in a top hat and cape skulking through foggy gaslit Whitechapel. Anopheles mosquitoes prefer nocturnal feedings; their habit of flying toward light sources may have made them especially obnoxious in gaslit rooms with open windows. Torontonians can celebrate Hogmanay with live and traditional music in the gaslit surroundings of Mackenzie House. Definition of gaslight in US English: gaslight nounˈɡæslaɪtˈɡaslīt 1A type of lamp in which an incandescent mantle is heated by a jet of burning gas. Example sentencesExamples Did this include the re-introduction of gaslights? In the lobby of the police station in Court Square, he looked up from his notepad, squinting at the gaslight after a long engagement with a sheet of paper. Central heating and gaslights were included in the architect's specifications, followed a little later by the introduction of electricity throughout the house. The gaslights were few and far between on Water Street. And no city sells its gaslights and cobblestones better than Charleston, largely because so much of it is both authentic and charming. Every touch is just right - from the titular gaslights, which flicker eerily in the darkness, to the intensely cramped Victorian-era London house that Paula and Gregory occupy. Then she blew out the gaslight and took the pot and spoon to the table. In 1878, he established Edison Electric Light Company and announced plans to invent safe electric lights to take the place of Shanghai's dangerous gaslights. It was hard to make out the stars because of the gaslights below the building, but she had a better view here then the one she had in London. Street gaslights add their glow to the swimming moonshine and are reflected in the siren's diamond coronet and huge dark eyes that know the secrets of the deep. Inside the main room, there is an ornate gaslight in each corner. What had it come to beyond the gaslights and wood fires? Landscaping officer Cowling said staff were trying to confirm with historians a story that Maldon was the last place in the country to have working gaslights. In the theaters, the gaslights are going out, replaced by flat, bright electric illumination. It's a shame that gaslights are no longer around, but you can still enjoy deliciously spook atmosphere in the darker streets, and glamour around Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. As paved roads, the telegraph, telephone lines, gaslights, and electric lines caused the city to change, so did the CPD. I watched his bulky frame receding beneath the gaslight as we pulled away. Turning on the gaslight, hoping that he wouldn't notice the tatty furniture and peeling brown wallpaper, she stepped into his arms, tilting her head so that he had no choice but to bring his lips down onto hers. Electric lighting was such a powerful symbol of progress that early lighting fixtures proudly flaunted bare bulbs so that no one would dare mistake them for gaslights. Like railroads, gaslights were instrumental stimulants for industrial growth. 1.1 The light produced by a gas lamp. in the gaslight she looked paler than ever Example sentencesExamples It is the only cinema, perhaps in the country, certainly in the region, that still uses gaslight. The author shows how gaslight gave the night walker the experience of poetry and irrationality. The same decade saw the foundation of the South Kensington Museum, endowed with an exemplary collection for craftsmen to learn from, and soon lit by gaslight in order to encourage working people to visit the collections in the evening. Galleries were generally lit by skylights, although by the later nineteenth century many commercial art galleries were using gaslight in order to stay open after dark. Fashionable Victorians flocked to promenade through this new underwater marvel, an amazing twin-bore arched corridor lit by flickering gaslight. The first public gas company in the world was set up in London in 1812, and Westminster Bridge was the first public thoroughfare to be illuminated by gaslight. The color was particularly brilliant beneath the gaslight of the theater. It was much like modern gallery openings, except that it was held during the afternoon so that gaslight would not throw off the subtleties of Whistler's harmonies. Members of Britain's Bowler family, enacting a Victorian lifestyle for PBS's ‘The 1900 House,’ have to read by gaslight and boil their laundry. As Nead compellingly demonstrates, the volatile magic of gaslight lent enchantment and vitality to the pursuit of pleasure after dark, recreating the city as a vast stage set or Benjaminesque phantasmagoria. As late as the early 1900s, older houses with gaslight were still being retrofitted for electricity. ‘Van Gogh mentioned in his letters that his paintings looked different in daylight and gaslight,’ said Bluhm. Edison designed this distribution system to compete with gaslight on price, while offering brighter and safer illumination. His eyes were an unusual green color that gave off a faint luminescence in the gaslight. Synonyms illumination, brightness, luminescence, luminosity, shining, gleaming, gleam, brilliance, radiance, lustre, glowing, glow, blaze, glare, dazzle verbˈɡæslaɪtˈɡaslīt [with object] Manipulate (someone) by psychological means into questioning their own sanity. in the first episode, Karen Valentine is being gaslighted by her husband Example sentencesExamples Is this normal, or am I being gaslighted? How do you know if you are being gaslighted? They will try to control the situation in such a way that the person who was gaslighted is kept away from other associates. She gaslights her mother into a pitiable downfall. He had no memory of the incidents. 'I thought she was trying to gaslight me.' There is a perpetrator and a victim here, and the late Neil Jacobsen and I have called this kind of mind control "gaslighting," after the movie with Ingrid Bergman. You're gaslighting me. He professed to be hurt and affronted by suggestions that he was just trying to gaslight a competitor's customers. She believes that he is literally trying to drive her crazy, gaslighting her with an elaborate series of small, malicious acts of vandalism and theft performed by her quickly shifting cast of household help. I've also realized she's been gaslighting me for months now; causing me to doubt myself and how I've handled things. A husband who tells his wife that she suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder when she becomes frustrated because she is consistently being told that things that were said or done didn't happen, is gaslighting his wife. He gaslighted Christina, humiliated and mentally tortured her, and shamelessly went after her money pretending to be investing it for her. I'm pretty sure a coworker is gaslighting me. We've always argued, but lately she's accusing me of gaslighting her. Sharlene agreed to participate in Gary's plan to gaslight Grant and slipped a drug into Grant's drink. She gaslights him into believing he is developing superpowers. If he is truly "gaslighting" you then he is not following the Christian guidelines of a marriage.
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