Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Illuminated by means of floodlights.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective lit by floodlights

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective illuminated by means of floodlights

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word floodlit.

Examples

  • Unlike scanning (searchlight) radars, CH, being a 'floodlit' system, provided up-date at the pulse repetition rate with a corresponding integration gain when using a CRT with a long persistence phosphor.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • England's floodlit one-day game against India in Cardiff on a Friday night in September left Surrey's Jade Dernbach, and Somerset's Craig Kieswetter and Jos Buttler, driving from South Wales to London in the early hours of Saturday before playing in a major domestic final that same day.

    County Championship scheduled for earliest start on record 2011

  • In the days of Nad Al Sheba, at a typical race, men milled around the floodlit track in flowing white dishdashas and head scarves while women in black abayas sat cross-legged on the lawn that embraced the track, poring over racing forms.

    All the Sheikh’s Horses 2010

  • And, floodlit, ink-besotted, so assails the upper atmosphere that all our better judgment fails.

    Varenna 2010

  • Hunched within its floodlit new-build, English cricket is now surfing the finest margins, dependent on the grande bouffe of the Saturday spree merchant, and not so much in bed with the purveyors of walk-up hospitality as sweatily intertwined on the main stairs.

    Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay 2011

  • And, floodlit, ink-besotted, so assails the upper atmosphere that all our better judgment fails.

    Varenna 2010

  • The fence between the two countries is floodlit for surveillance purposes.

    Asia in Pictures 2011

  • But it is Wales's floodlit Test in Paris a little later which brings down the curtain on 2011's Six Nations Championship, and let's hope the last trumpets will be nice and resounding: it's been a bitty tournament so far.

    Dragon dreams of Barry John, Gareth Edwards and springtime in Paris | Frank Keating 2011

  • This match was as much of an anti-climax as a World Cup quarter-final could be but every single one of the 113 runs scored by Pakistan raised roars that rang out into the floodlit sky and around the innumerable half-built towers that encircle the ground.

    Shahid Afridi's bowling unites Pakistan and Bangladesh in cricket | Andy Bull 2011

  • In the days of Nad Al Sheba, at a typical race, men milled around the floodlit track in flowing white dishdashas and head scarves while women in black abayas sat cross-legged on the lawn that embraced the track, poring over racing forms.

    All the Sheikh’s Horses 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.