flashlight
pronunciation
How to pronounce flashlight in British English:
UK [ˈflæʃlaɪt]
How to pronounce flashlight in American English:
US [ˈflæʃlaɪt]
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- Noun:
- a small portable battery-powered electric lamp
Word Origin
- flashlight (n.)
- also flash-light, 1886, "on-and-off signal light in a light-house, etc.," from flash (v.) + light (n.). As the word for a photographer's light-emitting preparation, 1892 (flash-lamp in this sense is by 1890). From 1905 as as a handheld, pocket-sized electric illumination device, the American English word for what the British might call an electric torch.
Example
- 1. Picasso light-drawing with a flashlight , 1949 .
- 2. What the audience thinks is a lighter is really a tiny flashlight .
- 3. Runners should wear reflective clothing and carry a flashlight that swings while moving .
- 4. Alarm clock + also has a handy flashlight function .
- 5. We arrived at 4 a.m. and climbed the 200-meter-high hill with a flashlight .