0 a light with a very bright beam that can be turned in any direction, used especially to guard prisons or to see the movements of enemy aircraft in the sky --
1 a device that puts out a very bright beam of light and can turn in any direction --
I want now to throw a searchlight on one or two particular items, some of which have been mentioned by previous speakers.
I always think that the value of searchlights arc inadequately recognised by the public.
When one is dealing with guerrilla warfare and searchlight batteries are brought into operation, surely it is a kind of warfare.
That is a dark corner of those people's behaviour, let us get a searchlight on to it as soon as possible.
Until radar equipment is more effective than it is now, searchlights will be necessary for low-flying aircraft.
We bad a special telephone service and listening posts, and two or three barrages of searchlights.
These searchlights pierce the darkness enabling one to see into an unlit street or room, as if it were daylight.
Kennedy guides us along a journey of intellectual discovery that focuses the searchlight of critical reasoning on the noble goals and aspirations of humanitarianism.
