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floodlight
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A projector of a bright beam of light for use in theatres and studios; a flood 2 (context chiefly in the plural English) Powerful artificial illumination with a broad beam, especially in a series of units on pylons used to illuminate a sports ground. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Every detail was picked out by the floodlights mounted high up on the walls behind protective grilles. ▪ Kirov glanced casually at a pair of tripod cameras and an umbrella floodlight . ▪ The floodlight outside - harsh and white ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography [syn: flood , flood lamp , photoflood ] v. illuminate with floodlights [also: floodlit ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also flood-light , 1924, from flood (n.) + light (n.). Related: Floodlit .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A floodlight is an artificial light providing even illumination across a wide area. High-intensity discharge lamp , the class of lamp itself Stage lighting instrument , the types associated with Stage productions
Usage examples of floodlight.
At one end of the field the tall white cutter was being serviced by a rolling gantry, while the fat cislunar tug which was allegedly being hijacked was sitting all by itself at the opposite corner of the field, illuminated by floodlights.
Estevan walked clockwise, Clio counterclockwise around the perimeter, where the floodlights did a fairly good job of illumination except for the dark patches between the widely spaced lights.
It was Gypper who finally bawled for someone to turn the floodlight upward.
The floodlights had given the backstreets the brightness of Las Vegas.
But the College floodlighting had not yet been switched off, and the old Cotswold stone buildings surrounding the quadrangles retained their curious air of insubstantiality.
My hired suit looked even more festively clownish, in the floodlights of day.
Floodlights illuminated the rows of model houses, making them look flat and two-dimensional, like painted facades on a movie backlot.
I had time to notice through my bedazzlement, as I sipped, only that other such doors were visible in patches of yellow glare at various heights on the rock-face, and that a double row of bluish floodlights on tall poles, with a thick white pipe between, stretched out over flat ground to leftwards -- a brilliant line straight to the horizon.
Over on the starboard side, two very powerful floodlights had been slung above the huge turbine: the visibility they gave varied from three to six feet, according to the changing amount of smoke given off by the charred and smoldering insulation.
They could only ride on into the glare of floodlights, and Craig was helpless, pinned by the lights beneath the canopy, not even able to communicate with Comrade Lookout in the cab in front of him.
The architectural style suggested a newly constructed California prison, complete with floodlights and tall chain-link fences.
The huge B-52 was completely black, a strange, eerie jetblack that seemed to absorb light, totally negating the effect of the hundred maintenance floodlights surrounding it.
Condensation was forming on the windscreen and the crane swung its skeletonic arm through the floodlights insubstantially, like a back projection on frosted glass.
All the monuments of the city seemed to be bathed in yellow-gold floodlights: the Castle on its shapeless volcanic mound, the Balmoral Hotel, and the memorial for Walter Scott which looked, Henry thought, like a Saturn V launch gantry rendered in sandstone, turned black as coal by pollution, which the monument was too fragile to have washed off.
A powerful electric bulb of almost floodlight brilliance had been inserted in the ceiling fixture and its harsh white glare made the room more barren and cell-like than ever.