(n.) A light, with a powerful reflector, placed at the head of a locomotive, or in front of it, to throw light on the track at night, or in going through a dark tunnel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Beyond the narrow beam of our headlights, it was pitch black.
(2) It was a moment when Google was suddenly caught in the headlights.
(3) They saw the headlights, but paralysed by fear, instead of running, they stood there.
(4) 10.12pm BST More from Howard Amos at the scene : Howard Amos (@howardamos) A hundred metres from trade union building 8 corpses are being examined by medics and police in headlights of car.
(5) "When you read the book, he sounds more sarcastic and snarky, closer to Holden Caulfield ," he says, "but with Dustin Hoffman it feels genuinely rabbit-in-the-headlights."
(6) Like rabbits caught in headlights they have no plan of practical action to save civilian lives .
(7) The motor-ambulance was a new thing in war to me then, and it seemed strange to see the great eyes of the headlights loom through the dark and pick their way through the crunching snow to the hospital door.
(8) It was a lovely London moment, which reminded me of those sumptuous shots in Hollywood films, of Fifth Avenue in the snow, or of a night-time LA lit up by headlights like a circuit board.
(9) A 66-year-old defence solicitor said: "The judges froze in the headlights like frightened rabbits, and refused to consider the individual cases that came before them because they were paralysed with fear."
(10) As transport minister, as well as handling the new M25, he campaigned for mandatory dipped headlights after dark and advocated the compulsory wearing of seat belts.
(11) They were determined that their presence would stop potential rigging, saying, “I am waiting for the count because I want to see it with my own eyes.” When darkness fell, they brought their own generators or switched on car headlights.
(12) James Riach Bournemouth complete £9m record signing of Wolves striker Benik Afobe Read more Bournemouth Ins Lewis Grabban (Norwich City, £7m), Benik Afobe (Wolves, £9m), Juan Iturbe (Roma, loan), Rhoys Wiggins (Sheffield Wednesday, £200,000), Marius Adamonis (FK Atlantas, loan) Outs Jayden Stockley (Exeter City, loan), Yann Kermorgant (Reading, loan), Lee Tomlin (Bristol City, loan), Elliott Ward (Blackburn, undisc), Alessandro Cannataro (released), Tomas Andrade (released), Ryan Allsop (Wycombe Wanderers, loan) While the Argentinian winger Juan Iturbe still looks like a rabbit in the headlights at times, Benik Afobe, the club’s record signing from Wolves, has settled quickly, scoring two goals in as many matches.
(13) After the group moves on, we drive back though near-darkness without headlights.
(14) Each patient had seen a definite red hue to lights (moon, automobile headlights, etc.)
(15) These include, in addition to the rigid endoscopes, the fiberoptic headlight, cable, indirect laryngoscope, nasopharyngoscope, flexible laryngoscope, flexible esophagoscope and flexible bronchoscope.
(16) Expectations are high.” A cavalcade of motorbikes and cars with their headlights on and horns blaring paraded through the streets of Kano, northern Nigeria’s biggest city, AFP reported.
(17) My daughter’s life has gone now.” And June found herself caught in the media headlights.
(18) St Louis, who ought to have seen enough World Series action in the past decade to be prepared, were like rabbits caught in the headlights of Fenway Park, giving up errors and runs.
(19) It was midnight in Ghor when the Taliban appeared on the road in the headlights of the minivans, waving at the vehicles to stop.
(20) Many are alone – solitary figures backlit by the stream of headlights moving into the city.
Reflector
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, reflects.
(n.) Something having a polished surface for reflecting light or heat, as a mirror, a speculum, etc.
(n.) A reflecting telescope.
(n.) A device for reflecting sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) A changed position of the mirror-reflector in the Rubin-2 thermovision unit as well as the use of an improved model of the couch-chair and a special cassette for electrochemical paper reduce the labour input and raise the information value of the method.
(2) As radiation sources, the following ones have proved useful: high-pressure mercury-vapour lamps, compound radiation systems consisting of high-pressure mercury-vapour burner, series coiled filament and reflector bulbs made of special glass as well as halogen metal-vapour lamps.
(3) We present applications to speckle reduction, detection of specular reflectors, attenuation estimation and ultrasound imaging.
(4) The likelihood for men to remarry is approximately five to six times higher and can be best interpreted as a reflector of the distribution of sexes on the "remarriage market", rather than as an expression of any differential priorities or attitudes between sex groups.
(5) It is estimated that about 30% of scintillation light can be collected at one end of such a counter, with a non-uniformity not greater than 10%, if magnesium oxide is used as the external reflector at all other surfaces.
(6) In this paper, it is demonstrated that the presence of a cepstral peak depends on the form of the probability density function (pdf) of the separation between reflectors.
(7) The data indicate that pharmacological stimulation of the peripheral arterial chemoreceptors by almitrine bismesylate in normoxic healthy humans causes reflectorically a slight renal vasoconstriction and a long-lasting inhibition of renal tubular sodium reabsorption.
(8) Therefore, the Doppler signal from a strong reflector distant from the center of the sample volume may mask the signal of a weak reflector located within the center.
(9) Moreover, strong echo-reflectors, such as calcification or prosthetic heart valves, create large acoustic shadowing effects behind which obtaining an ultrasound signal is difficult if not impossible.
(10) An even bigger motorcade collected us at the airport, security men in reflector shades jumping out and opening doors as our cars slowed down.
(11) Environmental noxious agents initiate hyper-reflectoric reactions of the mucosa, which seems to be the most impressive factor causing the change in rhinological diseases nowadays.
(12) The model includes magnitude and position of specular echoes, a random description of echoes from diffuse reflectors, and a parametric characterization of attenuation.
(13) Buried in the berm will be radar reflectors, magnets and a “Storage Room”, constructed around a stone slab too big to be removed via the chamber entrance.
(14) The use of levels of plasma HVA as a noninvasive reflector of DA function provides a research strategy for longitudinal studies of neuroleptic effects in schizophrenia.
(15) Reverberation produces a set of equally spaced artifactual echoes distal to the real reflectors.
(16) The shock wave ellipsoid reflector position is adjusted to the stone with a computer assisted positioning device.
(17) Four reflectors are fixed on the face of subject; two others are fixed on a metallic system that is glued on the buccal face of inferior canines.
(18) The manual therapy enables the treatment of the reflectoric expression of these disturbances.
(19) Disturbance of muscle coordination by reflectoric afferences from cervical or shoulder regions.
(20) On the other hand, extreme reflectoric muscle contractions, caused by a rotational trauma can cause chondromalacic lesions in the femoro-patellar joint, broadening the syndrome of the "unhappy triad" to an "unhappy tetrad".