searchlight

searchlight

See also: search-light

English

Etymology

From search +‎ light

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: search‧light

Noun

searchlight (plural searchlights)

1. A light source that projects a bright beam of light in any direction, generally for military use.
2. The light from the above source.

Hypernyms

• light

Translations

a light source that projects a bright beam of light in any direction

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: valonheitin (fi) French: projecteur (fr) m Hungarian: fényszóró (hu), keresőlámpa, reflektor (hu)

Norwegian: Bokmål: søkelys (no) n Nynorsk: søkelys n Russian: проже́ктор (ru) m (prožéktor) Spanish: proyector de búsqueda m Volapük: litijedian

the light from the above source

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: valokeila French: faisceau (fr) m

Hungarian: fénysugár (hu), fénykéve Norwegian: please add this translation if you can Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: please add this translation if you can Volapük: please add this translation if you can

Verb

searchlight (third-person singular simple present searchlights, present participle searchlighting, simple past and past participle searchlighted)

1. (transitive) To scan or sweep across like a searchlight.

References

• searchlight on Wikipedia.Wikipedia