flashlight

About 1.70 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A battery-powered hand-held light source.

   I shone my flashlight on the strange inscription.

2. noun A flashgun (device used to create flashes of light for photography).
3. noun A photograph taken with a flash camera.
4. verb To illuminate with a flashlight.

Similar words

torch lamp searchlight lantern blowtorch bonfire luminous flare light flash

Often followed by

and in on to beam from into at with

Word family

flashlights