floodlight
pronunciation
How to pronounce floodlight in British English:
UK [ˈflʌdlaɪt]
How to pronounce floodlight in American English:
US [ˈflʌdˌlaɪt]
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- Noun:
- light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
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- Verb:
- illuminate with floodlights
Word Origin
- floodlight (n.)
- also flood-light, 1924, from flood (n.) + light (n.). Related: Floodlit.
Example
- 1. Lots of houses here are abandoned and one of them became andrey 's sculpture studio . There he has an easel , floodlight , clay .
- 2. An abbottabad resident said mechanized backhoes working under floodlight completed the demolition shortly before midnight .
- 3. Spotting the light from a tiny planet across astronomical distances is akin to discerning a red-hot pinhead right next to a floodlight from many kilometres away .
- 4. Even when it jams enemy communications , which makes it detectable by radar , lockheed official steve callaghan says its " very specific way of jamming " is more like a " big bank of laser pointers " than a floodlight , protecting the aircraft .