flashlight — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A battery-powered hand-held light source.

   Uso

   • Canada
   • Philippines
   • uso statunitense

   Sinonimi

   electric torchtorch

   Termini più specifici

   pocket light

   Esempi

   I shone my flashlight on the strange inscription.

   At school he used to do Dr. Jekyll turning into Mr. Hyde, shining a flashlight into his face.

2. A flashgun (device used to create flashes of light for photography).

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (3)

   He sat in an arm-chair with his forefinger to his temple, and when the photographer's flashlight went off, he hoped that the hotel had caught fire and that this would end it all.

   […] the flashlight exploded like a tiny bomb, making the Vicar jump a little, which explains why his face is a thankful blur, his deadly role forgotten to history (I have the photograph before me now).

   […] two or three bright flashlights went off close to us. It seemed that some prominent person was being quickly interviewed by reporters and photographed just before the ship left.

3. A photograph taken with a flash camera.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

Verbo

1. To illuminate with a flashlight.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Parole correlate

   handlampheadlamp

   Esempi

   Autis stepped carefully while flashlighting the fog in front of himself and Gar.

Sostantivo

1. a small portable battery-powered electric lamp

   Sinonimi

   torch

   Termini più generali

   electric lamp