Crossword clues for floodlight
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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. vb. To enlighten or illuminate with floodlight.
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]
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
Floodlights are broad-beamed, high-intensity artificial lights. They are often used to illuminate outdoor playing fields while an outdoor sports event is being held during low-light conditions. More focused kinds are often used as a stage lighting instrument in live performances such as concerts and plays. Indoor flood lights show floods indoors, as opposed to outdoor floodlights that only show floods outside .
In the top tiers of many professional sports, it is a requirement for stadiums to have floodlights to allow games to be scheduled outside daylight hours. Evening or night matches may suit spectators who have work or other commitment earlier in the day. The main motivation for this is television marketing, especially in sports such as gridiron football which rely on TV rights money to finance the sport. Some sports grounds which do not have permanent floodlights installed may make use of portable temporary ones instead. Many larger floodlights (see bottom picture) will have gantries for bulb changing and maintenance. These will usually be able to accommodate one or two engineers.
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.