floodlight

English

Floodlights

Etymology

From flood +‎ light.

Noun

floodlight (plural floodlights)

1. A projector of a bright beam of light for use in theatres and studios; a flood
2. (chiefly in the plural) Powerful artificial illumination with a broad beam, especially in a series of units on pylons used to illuminate a sports ground.

Hypernyms

• light

Translations

a projector of a bright beam of light for use in theatres and studios; a flood

• Bulgarian: прожектор m (prožektor)
• Danish: projektør c, projektørlys n
• Finnish: valonheitin (fi)
• German: Flutlicht (de) n
• Irish: teilgeoir tuilsholais m
• Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: refletor (pt) m

powerful artificial illumination with a broad beam

• Danish: fladebelysning c
• Finnish: kenttävalaistus
• German: Flutlicht (de) n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flomlys n

Verb

floodlight (third-person singular simple present floodlights, present participle floodlighting, simple past and past participle floodlit or floodlighted)

1. (transitive) To enlighten or illuminate with floodlight(s).

Translations

illuminate with floodlights

• Maori: tūrama raharaha
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flombelyse