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gaslight::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | light, visible light, visible radiation |
Examples of gaslight
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There was gaslight technology available, though, before electricity came around.
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Public illumination preceded the discovery and adoption of gaslight by centuries.
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Bob Crowley provides a rising and falling, multilevel set that glows with gaslight.
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The Times described the electric lighting as superior, visually, to gaslight.
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Skaggs did not believe, as many people did, that gaslight harmed one's eyes.
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To those used to gaslight or candles, their unwavering glare was unnerving.
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Softened by the ruddy glow of the gaslight era, Wrong Box makes graveside humor a gas.
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Significantly, the authors have updated the story from the gaslight era to the jazz age.
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Originally the fixture was a gaslight with three lamps, but now exists as a single lamp.
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- Light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas
- Gaslight is a 1940 film directed by Thorold Dickinson based on Patrick Hamilton's play Gas Light (1938) which stars Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, and Frank Pettingell. ...
- Gaslight is a 1944 mystery-thriller film adapted from Patrick Hamilton's play performed as Angel Street on Broadway in 1941. It was the second version to be filmed; the first, released in Great Britain, had been made a mere four years earlier. ...
- The Gaslight was an automobile manufactured in Detroit, Michigan by the Gaslight Motors Company from 1960-c.1961. The Gaslight was a venture that built a replica-style veteran car, based on the 1902 Rambler. It was built with a modern air-cooled single-cylinder engine of . ...
- Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse in which false information is presented to the victim with the intent of making them doubt their own memory and perception. An example is the denial by an abuser to a victim that previous abusive incidents ever occurred. ...
- The light produced by burning piped illuminating gas; A lamp which operates by burning gas; To manipulate someone psychologically such that they question their own sanity
- (Gaslighting) describes actions that make another person believe he or she is crazy. The term comes from the 1944 movie Gaslight starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman. In this movie, the Charles Boyer character gaslights his new wife, Ingrid Bergman. ...
- The term "to gaslight" someone comes from the 1944 movie Gaslight, in which a greedy Victorian-era husband tries to convince his wife that she is going insane so that he can control her inheritance. ...
