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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Searchlight \Search"light`\, n.
An apparatus for projecting a powerful beam of light of approximately parallel rays, usually devised so that it can be swiveled about.
The beam of light projecting by this apparatus.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A light source that projects a bright beam of light in any direction. 2 The light from the above source.
WordNet
n. a light source with reflectors that projects a beam of light in a particular direction
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Wikipedia
A searchlight (or spotlight) is an apparatus that combines an extremely luminous source (traditionally a carbon arc lamp) with a mirrored parabolic reflector to project a powerful beam of light of approximately parallel rays in a particular direction, usually constructed so that it can be swiveled about.
"Searchlight" is a very short science fiction story by Robert A. Heinlein about a little blind girl whose spaceship crashes on the Moon. The search for her takes advantage of her prodigious musical ability to locate her.
It was originally written in 1962 as part of an advertisement for Hoffman Electronics. Heinlein says that because it was so short it was much harder to write than writing novels. Perhaps because of this, it was the last short story Heinlein wrote; the remaining quarter-century of his career was devoted to writing novels and non-fiction essays.
"Searchlight" is anthologized in The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein, a collection of short stories published in 1966 and his Expanded Universe in 1980.
Category:Short stories by Robert A. Heinlein Category:1962 short stories Category:Moon in fiction
Searchlight is a British magazine, founded in 1975 by Gerry Gable, which publishes exposés about racism, antisemitism and fascism in the UK and elsewhere.
Searchlight's main focus is on the British National Party (BNP), Combat 18, the English Defence League (EDL) and other sections of the Far right in the United Kingdom, as well as covering similar entities in other countries. The magazine is published and edited by Gerry Gable.
A searchlight is a device to illuminate the sky while searching for aircraft.
Searchlight may also refer to:
- Operation Searchlight was a military pacification program carried out by the Pakistan Army in 1971, in Bangladesh
- Searchlight, a type of color-light railway signal
- Searchlight, Nevada, a town in Clark County, Nevada
- Searchlight (magazine), a British anti-fascist magazine
- Fox Searchlight Pictures, a film studio
- Searchlight Software, developer of Searchlight BBS software (SLBBS)
- Searchlight (short story), a 1962 science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein
- Searchlight (Transformers), a fictional character
- Searchlight (workshops), workshops and home founded by Matron Powell in Denton, Sussex
- Searchlight (album), a 1989 album by Runrig
- "Searchlights", a song by Falling Up from the album Dawn Escapes
- Searchlights (album), a 2009 album by Abandon
- '' Search-Light, publication by William George Jordan
- Searchlight, an annual Canadian music competition mounted by CBC Music
Searchlight was founded in 1933 by Matron Powell, successor to Dame Grace Kimmins, as a set of workshops and home to teach useful skills and formed under the auspices of the Chailey Heritage. It was founded because Matron Powell realised that once the boys were 15 they were thrown out into the world unprepared to make their way.
Searchlight is a 1989 album, the sixth by Scottish Celtic rock band Runrig.
Usage examples of "searchlight".
He ran back, switched the electric current off the aerograph machines at the base of the observatory, and turned it on to the searchlight which was on the top of the equatorial dome.
Soon after passing over the brushland, Chuck hovered and turned on the searchlight.
The overall lighting was dim, enhancing the startling vividness of the centerpiece with its bank of flo less-than xllights and dramatic single searchlight, which gave the tree and its upper branches a peculiar flatness against the night sky.
Searchlights came on in the gathering darkness, and the eyes of the coastguardsmen were grim.
Three big coppers, two in uniform, strode down the alley, torches swaying up and down the narrow space like searchlights.
Blake knew, at that sound, that Tankred or one of his men was firing straight into the dial of the searchlight, that Tankred himself intended to defy what must surely be an Ecuadorean gunboat.
The searchlight was remorselessly on Tessa, the Society Girl Turned Oxbridge Lawyer, the Princess Diana of the African Poor, the Mother Teresa of the Nairobi Slums and the FO Angel Who Gave a Damn.
The one thing they valued him for - that gave him potential status as a human being in their eyes - was his monster truck: 454 cubic inches of V-8 power, double wheels on the rear axle, a thick black roll bar brandishing great mesh-covered Stalag 17 searchlights that could pick out a shrew on a rock in a midnight windstorm across two miles of chaparral.
V-8 power, double wheels on the rear axle, a thick black roll bar brandishing great mesh-covered Stalag 17 searchlights that could pick out a shrew on a rock in a midnight windstorm across two miles of chaparral.
Inside the towers are the searchlights, the monitor videocams, the loudspeakers, the controls for locking the gates, the tear-gas nozzles, the long-range sprayguns.
Then Tom set the burglar alarm, and, before going to bed he focused a searchlight, from one of his airships, on the shed and chicken coop, fastening it outside his room window.
Several days passed, and during the night time Tom, in his airship, and with the great searchlight aglow, flew back and forth across the border, seeking the elusive airships, but did not see them.
Searchlights like white sabers, cannon fire as bright magenta bursts against the darkening sky where no stars shone, muzzle flashes from the antiairship batteries of the Austrian battlewagons at anchor below.
Soon the helijets were skimming over the woods, sweeping the terrain with giant searchlights.
The two inventors, young and old, entered, and Tom quickly crossed to where the wires from the automatic dynamo, extended to the searchlight outside the window of his room.