Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A light with a reflector and lens mounted on the front of a locomotive, automobile, or other vehicle. Also called headlamp.
- n. A lamp mounted on a miner's or spelunker's hard hat.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A large lamp or lantern and reflector carried on the front of a locomotive and serving to illuminate the track by night. On locomotives of European make two headlights are carried, one over each rail of the track, and they are set much lower than the headlight of an American locomotive.
- n. A white light carried at a steamer's masthead when under way.
Wiktionary
- n. A bright light, with a lens and reflector, on the front of a motor vehicle (or originally a train), designed to illuminate the road when driving at night; normally one of a pair.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Engin.) A light, with a powerful reflector, placed at the front of a vehicle such as an automobile, truck, locomotive etc., to throw light on the road or track ahead of the vehicle at night, or in going through a dark tunnel; a
headlamp .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive
Examples
“J yeah i def like these commercials. were the wallflowers a one hit wonder? they had like 3 singles in the top 5. that album with one headlight is awesome. more like one album wonder.”
“He says it runs okay but the headlight is broken and he will have to get it fixed so he can go squirrel hunting Saturday night.”
“The headlight was a powerful electric one, with a black cap over the lens.”
The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol
“I can definitely say that driving without a headlight was a contributing factor,”
“There are three types of lights available, namely headlight, scenelight and cameralight.”
“The headlight is a characteristic feature of the face of the Multistrada 1200; its symmetrical layout uses four halogen lamps, two for low and two for high beam to provide excellent illumination.”
“My husband also wears his "headlight" all over the place, in the house even!”
“After considerable study, the optimum shape was found to be the Soyuz 'headlight' shape - a hemispherical forward area joined by a barely angled cone 7 degrees to a classic spherical section heat shield.”
“PeriOptix 'latest product is the next generation portable LED headlight which is significantly smaller and lighter than most other LED headlights.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘headlight’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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light, night, wight, hight, knight, fight, bright, right, fright, bight, eight, might and 174 more...
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Masthead Staples
Words from newspaper names/titles. Not the place names or titles of specific publications, just the reusable bits.
times, courier, advocate, news, telegraph, mirror, mail, bulletin, the, post, tribune, chronical and 108 more...
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newspaper names
Feel free to combine these in any way to create your own newspaper. Use lots of hyphens! (And yes, these are all used at real newspapers.)
times, union, post, dispatch, outlook, star, news, courier, herald, advertiser, daily, eagle and 178 more...
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What Keeps Your Ears Apart?
A sort of stuffie of words/phrases that include "head"
head of cattle, out of one's head, head of the stairs, come to a head, head of steam, head of the page, win by a head, head taller, headway, fountainhead, heads or tails, hit the nail on t... and 143 more...
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