streetlight
streetlight
Definition
street·light (strēt′līt′)
noun
a light mounted on a high pole, used to illuminate a street or road
streetlight
Usage Examples
Converse of subject
- well-light: If you're out at night, choose routes that are well-lit by streetlights and cross the road at well-lit places.
Converse of object
- report: There are just a few simple steps to take to report a streetlight not working.
- have: We have streetlights to keep the darkness at bay.
- power: In Australia, solar power is used to power the streetlights in the Sydney olympic village.
- include: Lighting Patrols -- Regularly auditing the lighting provision in the West End, including broken streetlights.
- install: Amount funded = £ 135,000 Street Lighting Replace old lighting and install additional streetlights in the NDC area.
- get: She was instrumental in getting streetlights for four streets and drinking water connection to eight households.
Adjective modifier
- faulty: Provided the information received in the voice bank was sufficient to locate the faulty streetlight all faults will be attended to.
- new: A further £ 3,000 has been added to purchase one or two new streetlights that are urgently required.
- broken: A resident reported that the broken streetlight beside the old surgery in Parson's Field was now working.
- yellow: Yellow is always a very negative color in Smith, and it's used twice here, referring to yellow sodium streetlights.
- additional: Amount funded = £ 135,000 Street Lighting Replace old lighting and install additional streetlights in the NDC area.
- old: Some old streetlights tend to spread light all around and in many cases upward as well.
Modifies a noun
- operation: Toronto Hydro bought the city's streetlight operations for $ 60 million last.. .
- swirl: The photographs in PING have a sometimes dream-like quality as sunlight flickers through shutters or neon streetlights swirl.
Noun used with modifier
- sodium: Night fell in shades outside the windows, sodium streetlights fizzing into life in an attempt to halt its progress.
- neon: The photographs in PING have a sometimes dream-like quality as sunlight flickers through shutters or neon streetlights swirl.
- city: The ambient light in the room is orange, like the color of a city streetlight.
Browse dictionary entries near streetlight
- streetcar
- street theater
- street smarts
- street-smart
- street people
- street name
- street cred
- street Arab
- street
- streamy
- streetwalker
- streetwise
- strength
- strength member
- strengthen
- strenuous
- strenuously
- strep
- strep throat
- strepto-
