FLASHLIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flashlight mean? 

• FLASHLIGHT (noun)
  The noun FLASHLIGHT has 1 sense:

1. a small portable battery-powered electric lamp

  Familiarity information: FLASHLIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLASHLIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small portable battery-powered electric lamp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

flashlight; torch

Hypernyms ("flashlight" is a kind of...):

electric lamp (a lamp powered by electricity)

Meronyms (parts of "flashlight"):

flashlight battery (a small dry battery containing dry cells; used to power flashlights)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flashlight"):

penlight (a small flashlight resembling a fountain pen)

 Context examples 

Think of Pluto, now in Capricorn, as the planet that comes into the basement of your house, a little like a building inspector, complete with flashlight and hardhat, to examine its foundations.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Microlensing is a technique that facilitates the discovery of distant objects by using background stars as flashlights.

('Iceball' Planet Discovered Through Microlensing, NASA)

Almost as if somebody had shone a flashlight for the astronomers, the shifting corona lit up the precise region they wanted to study.

(NuSTAR sees rare blurring of black hole light, NASA)

Think of Pluto as the contractor who enters your basement carrying a flashlight and wearing a hard hat and is there to check for cracks in the basement.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)