Usually means: Beam of light for searching.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word searchlight:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. searchlight: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. searchlight: Merriam-Webster
  3. searchlight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. searchlight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. searchlight: Collins English Dictionary
  6. searchlight: Vocabulary.com
  7. Searchlight, searchlight: Wordnik
  8. searchlight: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. searchlight: Wiktionary
  10. searchlight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. searchlight: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. searchlight: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. searchlight: Dictionary.com
  14. searchlight: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Searchlight (album), Searchlight (disambiguation), Searchlight (magazine), Searchlight (short story), Searchlight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. searchlight: Rhymezone
  17. searchlight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. searchlight: FreeDictionary.org
  19. searchlight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. searchlight: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. searchlight: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A light source that projects a bright beam of light in any direction, generally for military use.
▸ noun:  The light from the above source.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To scan or sweep across like a searchlight.
▸ noun:  A census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States.

Similar:
luminoscope, lighthead, Maglite, laser pointer, sunbeam, sunray, lightsheet, sunlamp, light mill, laser, more...

Opposite:
floodlight, spotlight, lamp, torch

Types:
beacon, floodlight, spotlight, headlight, more...

Phrases:
Searchlight Pictures, Operation Searchlight, Searchlight Capital, more...

Adjectives:
powerful, great, electric, big, small, large, inch, huge, bright, giant, strong

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Similar:
luminoscope, lighthead, Maglite, laser pointer, sunbeam, sunray, lightsheet, sunlamp, light mill, laser, more...

Opposite:
floodlight, spotlight, lamp, torch

Types:
beacon, floodlight, spotlight, headlight, more...

Phrases:
Searchlight Pictures, Operation Searchlight, Searchlight Capital, more...

Adjectives:
powerful, great, electric, big, small, large, inch, huge, bright, giant, strong

Colors:
    white,     silver,     gray,     yellow,     gold, more...



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