floodlight
floodlight
Definition
flood·light (flud′līt′)
noun
- an artificial light of high intensity, usually with a reflector that causes it to shine in a broad beam
- such a beam of light
transitive verb -·light′ed or -·lit′, -·light′·ing
to illuminate by a floodlight or floodlights
floodlight
Usage Examples
Object
- waterhole: We return to camp to spend the evening game viewing at the floodlit waterhole.
- pitch: Remember the floodlit football pitch by the Golden Eagle?
- skiing: There is also floodlit skiing on offer 3 nights a week.
- court: Burn off the calories on the floodlit tennis court or work out in the gym with a team of personal trainers.
- tennis: Reethi Beach Resort has a gym, plenty of games and a sports complex with squash, indoor badminton, and floodlit tennis.
- arena: An all weather floodlit arena is also under consideration.
Converse of object
- install: On the 19th September 1960 the club installed floodlights.
- see: By now you should be able to see the floodlights.
- have: Every pitch had floodlights, in addition there was a sound system that had a reach to all the pitches.
- use: Darren Kirby, Chairman of Towcester Junior FC said; We have several age groups using the floodlights during the week.
- include: Facilities Plymouth track has recently been awarded funding from Sport England to improve facilities including floodlights which will enable all year round training.
Preposition: at
- night: Windsor Castle is floodlit at night for the duration of the Horse Show.
Adjective modifier
- new: Off the field, a set of new, single column floodlights replaced those which had stood for over 30 years.
- permanent: Made his senior debut earlier in the campaign in the first match played under the permanent floodlights at Chelmsford against Pakistan.
- powerful: The firemen can even train at night for the drill yard has been equipped with powerful floodlights.
Modifies a noun
- pylon: The ground also benefits from having some striking floodlight pylons at each corner of the ground.
- failure: In the light of recent events at Lancaster City, SCAN Sport takes a look at the top five floodlight failures of our time.
Modifying Another Word
- fully: Hopefully since becoming fully floodlit night time assaults should be a less likely possibility.
Noun used with modifier
- halogen: The site was lit by four halogen floodlights at the corners, an echo of the original guard towers of the PoW camp.
Present participle complement
- drive: Welcome to the Golf Shop The Golf shop is a golf retail establishment with an onsite 20 bay floodlit driving range.
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