VERY LIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Very light mean? 

• VERY LIGHT (noun)
  The noun VERY LIGHT has 1 sense:

1. a colored flare fired from a Very pistol

  Familiarity information: VERY LIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERY LIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A colored flare fired from a Very pistol

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Very-light; Very light

Hypernyms ("Very light" is a kind of...):

flare; flash (a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate)

 Context examples 

Because of Mars' relatively low gravity, the planet wasn't able to hold onto the very light hydrogen atoms, but the heavier oxygen atoms remained behind.

(NASA Rover Findings Point to a More Earth-like Martian Past, NASA)

And then suddenly it struck me that what was dark to me might be very light to Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were no signs that anyone had entered the room, and it is quite certain that anything in the nature of cries or a struggle would have been heard, since Caunter, the elder boy in the inner room, is a very light sleeper.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Peggotty's business, which was what we used to call common-form business in the Commons (and very light and lucrative the common-form business was), being settled, I took her down to the office one morning to pay her bill.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Elinor, confirmed in every pleasant hope, was all cheerfulness; rejoicing that in her letters to her mother, she had pursued her own judgment rather than her friend's, in making very light of the indisposition which delayed them at Cleveland; and almost fixing on the time when Marianne would be able to travel.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

After this had been settled, Colonel Brandon began to talk of his own advantage in securing so respectable and agreeable a neighbour, and THEN it was that he mentioned with regret, that the house was small and indifferent;—an evil which Elinor, as Mrs. Jennings had supposed her to do, made very light of, at least as far as regarded its size.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)