Meaning of flashlight in English
(Definition of flashlight from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of flashlight
flashlight
A red-filtered high-beam flashlight was used during nightly observations to minimize disturbance of insect visitors.
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The problem is that our friends have only one flashlight with one battery that lasts for only 60 minutes (this is not a typo: sixty).
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Moreover, to cross the bridge a flashlight is needed to avoid traps and broken parts.
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A flashlight was used to locate the moths in the dark on the net.
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At its centre the characters, who are naked, are caught repeatedly as frozen images in the flashlight of a camera or a torch.
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Containers located in dark or shaded areas were also inspected using flashlights.
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If you are standing behind the flashlight, you can see the eyes as bright red points even when the rest of the animal is invisible.
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The flashlight casts a bright beam.
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It was done in a darkened room after 10 h of dark adaptation by shining a flashlight in front of the fish so as to illuminate both eyes equally.
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Surely even the most benighted of psychiatrists, feeling their way forward with their flashlight, do sometimes swing it around them and catch glimpses of their surroundings ?
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We ought to be able to put the flashlight of publicity on this industry.
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Somebody appears to be taking photographs with a flashlight.
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They beamed their flashlights at everybody and surrounded the bed.
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They are generally found to be a mere flashlight that comes and goes, and has no more foundation than the flashlight which takes a photograph in a dark room.
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If two guards see the spy, they have to shine a flashlight on him, and if three guards see a spy, he is captured.
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टॉर्च…
懐中電灯, 懐中電灯（かいちゅうでんとう）…
el feneri, flaş…
lampe [feminine] électrique, torche [feminine] électrique, lampe de poche…
llanterna…
zaklantaarn, flitslamp…
கையில் வைத்திருக்கும் ஒரு சிறிய ஒளி மற்றும் பொதுவாக பேட்டரிகளிலிருந்து அதன் சக்தியைப் பெறுகிறது…
टॉर्च…
ટોર્ચ, ચમક દીવડી, વીજળીની હાથબત્તી…
lommelygte, blitzapparat, blitz…
ficklampa, blixt…
lampu suluh, flash…
die Taschenlampe, der Blitz…
lommelykt [masculine], lommelykt, blitz…
فلیش لائٹ, ٹارچ لائٹ…
ручний ліхтар, фотоспалах…
карманный фонарь…
సాధారణంగా బాటరీల నుండి శక్తిని పొందే, చేతితో పట్టుకునే ఒక చిన్న లైటు…
مِصباح يَدوي…
টর্চলাইট…
baterka, kapesní svítilna, blesk…
senter, lampu kilat…
ไฟฉาย, แฟลช…
đèn pin, đèn nháy, đèn flát…
latarka, lampa błyskowa…
손전등…
torcia elettrica, pila, flash…
