Searchlight
['sɜːtʃlaɪt] or ['sɝtʃlaɪt]
Definition
(noun.) a light source with reflectors that projects a beam of light in a particular direction.
Checker: Spenser--From WordNet
Examples
- How Far can a Powerful Searchlight Send Its Rays? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- After he went out we saw a searchlight come on and watched the beam move across the sky and then go off and it was dark again. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Searchlights have recently been made capable of being seen nearly a hundred miles away. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The Commission wasn't afraid of details: didn't it recommend searchlights in the parks as a weapon against vice? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The illustration shows a battery of powerful searchlights, the use of which furnished some very effective displays during the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco in 1915. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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