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sidelight

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side·light  (sdlt)
n.
1. A light coming from the side.
2. Nautical Either of two lights, red to port, green to starboard, shown by ships at night.
3. A piece of incidental or contrasting information.

sidelight
Noun
1. Brit either of two small lights at the front of a motor vehicle
2. either of the two navigational lights used by ships at night
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.sidelight - light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow
light source, light - any device serving as a source of illumination; "he stopped the car and turned off the lights"
Translations
sidelight [ˈsaɪdlaɪt] n (AUT) → luz f lateral
sidelight [ˈsaɪdlaɪt] side n (Aut) → veilleuse f
sidelight [ˈsaɪdlaɪt] side n (Aut) → Begrenzungsleuchte f
sidelight [ˈsaɪdlaɪt] n (AUT) → luce f di posizione


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He remained there, his ear in the cowl of the ventilator, his eyes fastened on those menacing sidelights dancing on the gusts of wind which swept the angry darkness of the sea.
When I came up to take my watch, he steps out of the chart-room and has a good look all round, peeps over at the sidelights, glances at the compass, squints upward at the stars.
The motives that swayed the characters were beyond their comprehension; the fates that shifted them were gods they had never met; the sidelights Mrs.
 
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