searchlight /ˈsɜːtʃ.laɪt/ aep /ˈsɝːtʃ-/ noun [C]
► F0 a light with a very bright beam that can be turned in any direction, used especially to guard prisons or to see the movements of enemy aircraft in the skySee picture: searchlight
Thesaurus+: ↑Lighting and light fittings in the home
- ♯ Admirers
- ♯ Admitting and confessing
- ♯ Advancing and moving forward
- ♯ Advantage and disadvantage
- ♯ Advertising, marketing and merchandising
- ♯ Affected and insincere
- ♯ Affecting and influencing
- ♯ Affectionate terms of address
- ♯ Afraid
- ♯ After and behind
- ♯ Ahead, in front and beyond
- ♯ Aiming and aim
- ♯ Airports and landing strips
- ♯ Air sports
- ♯ Air travel
- ♯ Alcohol - general words
- ♯ Allowing and forbidding
- ♯ Allowing and permitting
- ♯ Almost
- ♯ Alone
- ♯ Also, extra, and in addition
- ♯ Alternative and traditional therapies
- ♯ Always and never
- ♯ American football
- ♯ Amounts of money