flashlight
Americannoun
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especially British, torch. a small, portable electric lamp powered by dry batteries, LEDs, or a tiny generator.
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a light that flashes, such as a lighthouse beacon.
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any source of artificial light as used in flash photography.
noun
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Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): torch. a small portable electric lamp powered by one or more dry batteries
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Sometimes shortened to: flash. photog the brief bright light emitted by an electronic flash unit
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a light that flashes, used for signalling, in a lighthouse, etc
Etymology
Origin of flashlight
Example Sentences
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But Grandma parked her work and we went outside together, her holding a flashlight, and me clutching my phone for another photo of our tree fire.
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There was a shout, and the slash of a flashlight followed us into the bushes.
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They looked like tiny flashlights going on and off, on and off.
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But then a smaller light—a flashlight? a penlight?—clicked on, hovering over Jonah’s desk.
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He put up a satellite dish, and a solar panel to charge the batteries for a flashlight, a cell phone, and a laptop computer.
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