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Attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive
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headlight
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Word definitions for headlight in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive [syn: headlamp ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1861, originally of ships and locomotives, from head (n.) + light (n.). Related: Headlights , which, as slang for "a woman's breasts," is from 1940s.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
headlamp \head"lamp`\ (h[e^]d"l[a^]mp`), n. A powerful light with a reflector, attached to the front of an automobile, locomotive, or other vehicle; called also headlight . Syn: headlight.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A headlight is a device used to light the road ahead of a vehicle. Headlight or headlamp may also refer to:
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN car ▪ He can see car headlights a few hundred feet below. ▪ Southern species often sit in dirt roads or sandy tracks and appear in car headlights . ▪ It crept round the corners of the buildings and hung in the doorways ...
Usage examples of headlight.
The moons had sunk below the horizon, and the predawn blackness was complete, save for the glow that arose from a few streetlights and from the headlights of prowl-cycles that sputtered about the city, watching the sky.
Down there she had sat in wait for the boy with the bazouki, watching as the light of his motorbike raced towards her, then switching on her own headlights and driving into his path.
Budd whispered, his eyes on the buggish headlights of the harvesting threshers.
Through the platform binoculars Joe watched a heavy man in uniform and a gaunt man in civvies pacing in the headlights of a sedan outside the South-10,000 shelter.
She had completed the path to the old tack house and was heading back toward Alan and Cozy, the little headlights of the tractor dead in their eyes.
Alan and Cozy, the little headlights of the tractor dead in their eyes.
Jackie Dibble stood in the doorway, having seen the approaching headlights.
I trudged out into a hooing of damp and grisly wind, into the kind of gunmetal day when you wear your headlights turned on, and think of a roaring fire, hot buttered rum, a Dynel tigerskin, and a brown agile lass from Papeete.
Irish Point, the train chugging down the center of the flyway that gleamed like an oil slick in the headlights and the silver glare of the rising moon.
Eve perceived that she was truly in a different world, one in which vehicle headlights might pick out exotic ibex, aodad, or bounding gemsbok as often as native wild whitetail.
No headlights followed me away from Lac La Hache, as the place was called, but by the time the sun had come up and burned the mists out of the hollows where it lay like cotton, the beat-up red car had taken up its station behind me once more.
As she threw up her hand to shield her eyes, Hickey stopped the Expedition and blinked the headlights twice.
The three northbound lanes of Jones Street, the next one west of Rankin, were not yet as clotted with cars as they would be later at night, but headlights there were a nervous darting through the houses and trees whenever Lome turned on his stump to look.
The headlights played on dark shapes, and suddenly Lotsa Smoke was racing through the herd, the buffaloes rushing pell-mell to escape-calves and cows and even old bulls.
So she sees those headlights coming like hell, and instead of keeping going, and she would have been okay if she had, she spins around and tries to get back where she came from.