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pilot light
noun
A small, persistent flame used to ignite gas.
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"The pilot light must have gone out".
The pilot light is back on.
At least Henning has discovered there is a pilot light.
(The pilot light was out, a server said apologetically).
It was, says Ruhl, like a pilot light going on.
Even during downtime the pilot light was on high.
"Anything could set them off — a spark, a pilot light.
Realising the gas was not lit, I pressed the red pilot light button.
He wanted to make sure she knew how to reset the pilot light on the boiler.
"The stove is original; it has a pilot light that goes out".
The socialism that she inherits burns like a pilot light throughout her New York childhood.
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