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View synonyms for flashlight

flashlight

[ flash-lahyt ]

noun

  1. alsocalledcomma especially British, torch. a small, portable electric lamp powered by dry batteries, LEDs, or a tiny generator.
  2. a light that flashes, such as a lighthouse beacon.
  3. any source of artificial light as used in flash photography.


flashlight

/ ˈflæʃˌlaɪt /

noun

  1. a small portable electric lamp powered by one or more dry batteries Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)torch
  2. photog the brief bright light emitted by an electronic flash unit Sometimes shortened toflash
  3. a light that flashes, used for signalling, in a lighthouse, etc


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Word History and Origins

Origin of flashlight1

First recorded in 1885–90; flash + light 1

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Example Sentences

This vest includes a USB port to charge your smartphone and a built-in flashlight.

I have to use the flashlight on my phone to find the wax at the bottom of my bag.

In one case, the city paid out $125,000 when officers allegedly fractured someone’s cheekbone with a flashlight.

Only one player gets a flashlight, and the others must follow them everywhere.

Urbexers scavenger-hunt for sites and then crawl through closed tunnels, scour old buildings, flashlight around finished mines, and trek through old military bases.

No one who lives in an American city requires a flashlight to detect the presence of immigrants or the challenges they face daily.

One of the rookie officers, Peter Liang, was walking with a flashlight in one hand and his gun in the other.

A friend of his comes in and shines a flashlight on it and says it looks like blood.

Whenever Stout shone his flashlight beam into one of the rooms, it illuminated stacks of mortar shells and explosives.

IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT...FOOD... AND WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.

He had a flashlight gun in his right hand, and a photographer's tripod was propped upright between his knees.

He was carrying that self-same copper cased flashlight device.

That paper banded to the flashlight device had carried a Seventh Avenue address.

The thing resembled a flashlight more closely than ever on close inspection.

He pointed the copper cased flashlight device upward toward the dark window which Black Hood was watching.

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