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headlight

[hed-lahyt]

noun

  1. a light lights or lamp, usually equipped with a reflector, on the front of an automobile, locomotive, etc.



headlight

/ ˈɛˌɪ /

noun

  1. a powerful light, equipped with a reflector and attached to the front of a motor vehicle, locomotive, etc See also quartz-iodine lamp

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of headlight1

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65; head + light 1
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Turn on your headlights or use fog lights if visibility is especially poor.

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It is sleek and angular, with bright, downward-slanting headlights that have more than a hint of mischievous eyes about them.

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They show fragmentary urban scenes — a few palm trees illuminated by the glow of an unseen automobile’s headlights, the artist’s bland backyard, some mute shops — but the images aren’t compelling.

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Maehara was riding his electric bicycle on Merle Drive in Montebello, not far from his home, around 10 p.m. on April 29 when headlights from a car approaching him from behind illuminated his path.

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“I was a deer caught in the headlights of a full-on romance, with no training or experience to cope with my teenage emotions,” he wrote, then explained his compartmentalized life and well-honed practice of denial.

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