searchlight
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See also: Searchlight and search-light
English
Etymology
From search + light. Compare West Frisian sykljocht (“searchlight”), Dutch zoeklicht (“searchlight”), Danish søgelys (“searchlight”), Swedish sökarljus (“searchlight”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: search‧light
Noun
searchlight (plural searchlights)
- A light source that projects a bright beam of light in any direction, generally for military use.
- The light from the above source.
Hypernyms
Translations
a light source that projects a bright beam of light in any direction
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the light from the above source
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Verb
searchlight (third-person singular simple present searchlights, present participle searchlighting, simple past and past participle searchlighted or searchlit)
- (transitive) To scan or sweep across like a searchlight.
- 1937, L. Ron Hubbard, All Frontiers Are Jealous:
- A dozen air corps of fireflies searchlighted the spot for an instant.
References
searchlight on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
