0 past simple and past participle of alight
1 to get out of a vehicle, especially a train or bus:
2 to land on something:
Bats foraging near the platform were also caught directly by hand as they alighted on the inflorescences.
In searching for some solution to, or more probably respite from, these difficulties the coalition alighted on the notion of a conference.
Three themes in particular are alighted upon.
When the bird alighted in the rigging of a ship people attempted to catch it; when it fled to the railway station they followed in pursuit.
First, and most "self-evidently," it alighted on the product - its quality and integrity.
With regard to reference, the adult either correctly identified the infants' intended referent or else alighted on some nearby, but incorrect, object as the infants' intended referent.
That proportion is more or less fixed, which is why we have perhaps alighted on the advantage of a fixed proportion.
The vehicle stopped and about six persons alighted and disappeared in the darkness.
