searchlight

See also: Searchlight and search-light

English

A searchlight

Etymology

From search +‎ light. Compare West Frisian sykljocht (“searchlight”), Dutch zoeklicht (“searchlight”), Danish søgelys (“searchlight”), Swedish sökarljus (“searchlight”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɜːtʃˌlaɪt/
• Hyphenation: search‧light

Noun

searchlight (plural searchlights)

1. A light source that projects a bright beam of light in any direction, generally for military use.
2. The light from the above source.

Hypernyms

• light

Translations

a light source that projects a bright beam of light in any direction

• Afrikaans: soeklig (af)
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: прожектор m (prožektor)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: zoeklicht (nl) n
• Finnish: valonheitin (fi), hakuvalo (fi)
• French: projecteur (fr) m
• Hungarian: fényszóró (hu), keresőlámpa (hu), reflektor (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: søkelys (no) n

  Nynorsk: søkelys n

• Occitan: projector (oc) m
• Russian: проже́ктор (ru) m (prožéktor)
• Spanish: proyector de búsqueda m
• Swedish: sökljus n, sökarljus n
• Volapük: litijedian

the light from the above source

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: valokeila (fi)
• French: faisceau (fr) m
• Hungarian: fénysugár (hu), fénykéve (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: søkelys (no) n

  Nynorsk: søkelys n

• Occitan: fais (oc) m
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: sökljus n, sökarljus n
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can

Verb

searchlight (third-person singular simple present searchlights, present participle searchlighting, simple past and past participle searchlighted or searchlit)

1. (transitive) To scan or sweep across like a searchlight.
   • 1937, L. Ron Hubbard, All Frontiers Are Jealous:

     A dozen air corps of fireflies searchlighted the spot for an instant.

Further reading

• searchlight on Wikipedia.Wikipedia