Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A light with a reflector and lens mounted on the front of a locomotive, automobile, or other vehicle.
- noun A lamp mounted on a miner's or spelunker's hard hat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large lamp or lantern and reflector carried on the front of a locomotive and serving to illuminate the track by night.
- noun A white light carried at a steamer's masthead when under way.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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 .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A bright
light , with alens andreflector , on the front of amotor vehicle (or originally atrain ), designed toilluminate theroad whendriving atnight ; normally one of apair .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive
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Examples
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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.
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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.
HAROLD DERWIN BARNETT, 22 May 1925 - 16 October 2006 Maggie Jochild 2007
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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 Lewis E. Theiss
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"I can definitely say that driving without a headlight was a contributing factor,"
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There are three types of lights available, namely headlight, scenelight and cameralight.
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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.
Luxist 2009
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My husband also wears his "headlight" all over the place, in the house even!
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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.
The CEV SNAFU Zoe Brain 2006
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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.
Archive 2006-05-01 Zoe Brain 2006
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PeriOptix 'latest product is the next generation portable LED headlight which is significantly smaller and lighter than most other LED headlights.
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