What's the difference between gaslight and illuminating?

Gaslight


Definition:

  • (n.) The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.
  • (n.) A gas jet or burner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As a result, gaslighting is now used to describe a particular type of mental abuse that makes the victim doubt her – and it is often a her – own sanity, memory and perception.
  • (2) However, not only are domestic violence charities closing , but also most victims of gaslighting don’t present at specialist services because they have been trained to believe they, not the relationship, are the problem.
  • (3) One of his many tactics is to secretly dim the gaslights in their home and tell Bergman she is insane when she comments that the lights are flickering.
  • (4) The psychological coercion Helen experienced is a particular type of manipulation known as “gaslighting”, after the 1944 film Gaslight .
  • (5) The Guardian view on domestic abuse: truth, fiction and The Archers | Editorial Read more The failure to understand gaslighting is not just dangerous to victims of adult domestic abuse, but to many psychiatric populations.
  • (6) The battle against sexual violence is being lost – look at the number of young victims | Joanna Bourke Read more As gaslighting makes people feel mad, and as labelling someone as insane is a classic form of abuse, people often turn to their GP.
  • (7) I think people such as her, who have been acting since they were teenagers, develop special gifts because they learn the basis of their craft when they are young and impressionable.” Blakemore’s theory that one key to Lansbury success as a prodigy – she was nominated for an Oscar at 19 for her performance in the thriller Gaslight (1944) – is supported by the fact that one of her closest showbiz friends was Elizabeth Taylor, a child-star with whom she worked on National Velvet.
  • (8) But it is an essential one if we are to stop psychiatric discourse being used as a gaslighting technique to discredit the lived experiences of those too readily seen as mentally ill. • The freephone 24-hour national domestic violence helpline, run in partnership between Women’s Aid and Refuge , can be reached on 0808 2000 247.
  • (9) But it’s the accordion player who really takes you back, to Paris in the 1930s – gaslight in the alleys, hope on the horizon.
  • (10) He was absorbed by tales of pimps and voodoo queens, and pictured Mister Jelly Roll as the dust jacket described him, “wearing a hundred-dollar suit as sharp as a tipster’s sheet … the diamond in a front tooth gleaming like gaslight”.
  • (11) Gaslighting is so dangerous because it skewers the individual’s capacity to explain and realise what is wrong.
  • (12) I wish I had faith that the psychiatric system would have spotted why [The Archers'] Helen was so distressed Most victims of domestic abuse , narcissistic relationships or abusive childhoods see gaslighting as often as damaging as physical abuse.
  • (13) She was not able to articulate her actual experiences, an excellent representation of the gaslighting experience where victims are coerced into believing that if they could just be less emotional, have more positive thoughts and be less troublesome, all would be well.
  • (14) Gaslighting tends to start gradually, and can often appear ridiculous and everyday at first, for example being accused of overreacting because you are premenstrual.

Illuminating


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Illuminate
  • (a.) Giving or producing light; used for illumination.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
  • (2) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
  • (3) Naloxone injection into those rats exposed to constant illumination significantly increased hypothalamic levels of beta-endorphin compared to saline injected controls.
  • (4) These data show an extra-hepatic lipolytic effect of glucagon in vivo, but do not illuminate the significance of this effect in the intact animal.
  • (5) The illumination of the F1-ATPase complexes with NAB-ADP or NAB-GDP leads to the covalent binding of one nucleotide analogue molecule to the enzyme and to the irreversible inactivation of F1-ATPase.
  • (6) Both eosin derivatives, however, inactivate acetylcholinesterase upon illumination of air-equilibrated samples of hemoglobin-free labeled ghosts.
  • (7) This 520-nm change can be used for the continuous measurement of pH changes in thylakoids during steady-state illumination.
  • (8) Photosynthetic activity of the cells was checked by placing the cell evenly illuminated in a (14)CO(2) atmosphere.
  • (9) The visual processes revealed in these experiments are considered in terms of inferred illumination and surface reflectances of objects in natural scenes.
  • (10) The second triplet, which was stable in the dark at 4.2 K following illumination, was assigned to the radical pair Donor+I-.
  • (11) Superoxide anion (O2.-) was photogenerated upon illumination of riboflavin in fluorescent light.
  • (12) One of these has high sporulation-inducing activity after illumination in vitro.
  • (13) Upon illumination, a dark-adapted photosynthetic sample shows time-dependent changes in chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence yield, known as the Kautsky phenomenon or the OIDPS transient.
  • (14) The effects of continuous illumination, adrenalectomy and induction or inhibition of microsomal enzymes on antipyretic action of phenacetin were evaluated.
  • (15) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
  • (16) As the differential diagnosis between Crohn's disease and appendicitis is difficult and the surgical approach to the appendix in the presence of Crohn's disease is controversial, we illuminate some practical points in the preoperative evaluation of these patients and deal with the question of whether appendectomy should be performed in these patients.
  • (17) superficial or interstitial illumination) and the optical interaction coefficients of the irradiated tissue.
  • (18) Activity was stimulated by the change in illumination levels at dawn and dusk.
  • (19) On prolonged UV-A illumination the ESR spectrum of 16-doxylstearic acid in dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine vesicles loaded with 8-methoxypsoralen changed dramatically as a second broad component gradually appeared.
  • (20) All plasma porphyrins could be protected for several days from similar photodegradation by performing all blood drawing, processing, and assay procedures under ordinary red-incandescent illumination, and by storage in the dark.

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