English words for 'Alternative form of red light camera.'
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- a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
- a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification
- a sudden brilliant understanding
- a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
- a short vivid experience
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
- a momentary brightness
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- a gaudy outward display
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- (computing, uncountable) Clipping of flash memory.
- (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- Synonym of flashback (“recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug”).
- (military) A form of military insignia.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- (figurative, uncountable) Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”).
- (British, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- (telecommunications) Ellipsis of hook flash.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
- (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A pool of water, in some areas especially one that is marshy, and/or one formed by subsidence of the ground due to mining. (Compare flush (“marsh; pool”).)
- A very short amount of time.
- (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
adj
verb
- gleam or glow intermittently
- appear briefly
- emit a brief burst of light
- make known or cause to appear with great speed
- protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal
- display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- expose or show briefly
- (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To flash back.
- (transitive) To send by some startling or sudden means.
- (transitive, computing) To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- (intransitive) To burst out into violence.
- (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- (ambitransitive, informal) To expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.)
- (transitive, glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- (transitive, glassmaking) To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- (figurative) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- (intransitive) To be visible briefly.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To communicate quickly.
- (transitive) To make visible briefly.
- (juggling) To perform a flash.
- (intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
noun
- A lamp that produces short bursts of light that synchronizes with a camera shutter for photographing fast-moving objects.
- A photograph produced by such a machine.
- Instrument for studying or observing periodic movement by rendering a moving body visible only at regular intervals.
- scientific instrument that provides a flashing light synchronized with the periodic movement of an object; can make moving object appear stationary
noun
- equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other)
- television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam
- (computer graphics, video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
- A judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.
- (photography) A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
- A vaulted room.
noun
- an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies
- Any optical device used to view photographic slides.
- a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
- (mining, historical) The manager of a colliery, who directs its workings and ventilation.
- Someone who watches television.
- (computing) A program that displays the contents of a file.
- (now historical) An appointed inspector or examiner:
- Someone who views a spectacle; an onlooker or spectator.
verb
- (transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
- expose to light, of photographic film
- (computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.
- (transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).
- (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
- To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to any other stress, in order to test the reaction, resistance, etc.
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
- abandon by leaving out in the open air
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- expose or make accessible to some action or influence
- to show, make visible or apparent
- remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
- reveal to view as by removing a cover
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noun
- (photography) A camera shutter.
- (surgery) An object used to obstruct a hole, such as a fissure of the palate.
- (firearms) Any device for preventing the escape of gas through the breech mechanism of a breech-loading gun; a gas check.
- (anatomy) The membrane vessels, etc. that close the obturator foramen, or thyroid foramen, a large opening or fenestra in the anterior part of the hip bone.
- (engineering) A valve closure member (disk, gate, plug, etc.).
- a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate)
noun
- a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera
- (falconry) a leather covering for a hawk's head
- a headdress that protects the head and face
- metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes
- the folding roof of a carriage
- an urban, often lower-income inner-city area
- an aggressive and violent young criminal
- (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal
- protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine
- a protective covering that is part of a plant
- (ophiology) An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja).
- (automotive, chiefly UK) A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
- (colloquial) The prepuce; the foreskin or clitoral hood.
- A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
- (UK) Person wearing a hoodie.
- (nautical) One of the endmost planks (or, one of the ends of the planks) in a ship’s bottom at bow or stern, that fits into the rabbet. (These, when fit into the rabbet, resemble a hood (covering).)
- (slang) Gangster, thug.
- A distinctively colored fold of material, representing a university degree.
- (by extension, especially in the phrase "under the hood") A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.
- (equestrianism) A head and neck covering placed on horses to protect against insects and sunlight, to slow coat growth and for warmth.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A neighborhood.
- (colloquial) The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.
- (slang) Any poor suburb or neighbourhood.
- (falconry) A head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.
- (automotive, chiefly US, Canada) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.
- In the human hand, over the extensor digitorum, an expansion of the extensor tendon over the metacarpophalangeal joint (the extensor hood syn. dorsal hood syn. lateral hood)
- An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
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adj
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- (informal) Camera.
- (UK, dialect) A ridge or mound of earth.
- A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
- (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.
- (piracy) A bootleg recording of a film recorded in a movie theater.
- A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
- a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion
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verb
noun
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- (countable) A spotlight that illuminates a photographic subject from behind.
- (uncountable) Light that is behind a photographic subject.
- (countable) The rear window of a motor car.
- (uncountable) Light shining from a source behind the object of interest or attention.
- (countable) A light attached to an LCD display.
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adj
noun
verb
noun
- light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
- the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
- a large flow
- an overwhelming number or amount
- (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
- The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
- An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
- Menstrual discharge; menses.
- A floodlight.
verb
- supply with an excess of
- cover with liquid, usually water
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
- become filled to overflowing
- To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
- (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- (Internet, ambitransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
- To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
noun
- light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
- (chiefly in the plural) Powerful artificial illumination with a broad beam, especially in a series of units on pylons used to illuminate a sports ground.
- A projector of a bright beam of light for use in theatres and studios; a flood
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noun
- (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
- (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- (music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- (photography) An f-stop.
- (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- (UK, grammar, informal) Ellipsis of full stop.
- the event of something ending
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- the act of stopping something
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a spot where something halts or pauses
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verb
- (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- (causative, transitive) To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
- (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- (intransitive) Not to continue.
- (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- come to a halt, stop moving
- stop from happening or developing
- cause to end
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- render unsuitable for passage
- interrupt a trip
noun
- a camera lens that magnifies the image
- (photography) A lens which produces a magnified view of distant objects and which is sufficiently compact to have a physical length shorter than its focal length (as distinct from a long-focus lens).
- (photography) A lens having a long focal length which produces a magnified view of distant objects.
noun
- (photography) The piece of film exposed to light.
- (horticulture) The amount of sun, wind etc. experienced by a particular site.
- (photography) An instance of taking a photograph.
- (uncountable) Lack of protection from weather or the elements.
- (social media) The degree to which an individual, their content, or their brand is seen by the target market or the general public; internet fame.
- The act of exposing something, such as a scandal.
- (uncountable) The condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected.
- (countable, uncountable) That part which is facing or exposed to something, e.g. the sun, weather, sky, or a view.
- (photography) Details of the time and f-number used.
- The act or condition of being at risk of financial losses.
- the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate
- abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving an infant out in the open)
- the act of exposing film to light
- a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format
- presentation to view in an open or public manner
- the disclosure of something secret
- aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces
- vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain
- the state of being vulnerable or exposed
- the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience
noun
- (film) A light fixture used for set lighting and seen in the frame of a shot as part of the scenery.
- (British) A part of an exam or series of exams in which the candidate has to demonstrate their practical ability
- (theater) A prop that has some degree of functionality, rather than being a mere imitation.
- Laboratory experiment, test or investigation
adj
- Being likely to be effective and applicable to a real situation; able to be put to use.
- Of a person, having skills or knowledge that are practical.
- Relating to, or based on, practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis.
- (film) Light fixtures used for set lighting and seen in the frame of a shot as part of the scenery.
- (theater, not comparable) Of a prop: having some degree of functionality, rather than being a mere imitation.
- concerned with actual use or practice
- being actually such in almost every respect
- having or put to a practical purpose or use
- guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory
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noun
- (informal) An elitist or snobbish person.
- A language pedant or snob; one who practices linguistic elitism.
- (dialectal or slang, chiefly derogatory) A nose or snout.
- (Internet slang, childish, humorous) Snout; especially of a dog ("doggo"), cat ("catto"), or snake ("snek").
- (theater, photography) A cylindrical or conical attachment used on a spotlight to restrict spill light.
- informal terms for the nose
- a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
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verb
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- A device for giving shifting effects of color to a photograph. The unmounted print, made translucent, is illuminated from behind with colored light.
- A combination of three optical lanterns for projecting objects on a screen in natural colors. The images of three partial photographs taken through color screens (red, green, and blue, respectively) are superimposed. Each image is given its own primary color, and these colors blend and reproduce the colors of the object.
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verb
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- a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
- a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification
- a sudden brilliant understanding
- a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
- a short vivid experience
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
- a momentary brightness
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- a gaudy outward display
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- (computing, uncountable) Clipping of flash memory.
- (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- Synonym of flashback (“recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug”).
- (military) A form of military insignia.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- (figurative, uncountable) Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”).
- (British, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- (telecommunications) Ellipsis of hook flash.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
- (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A pool of water, in some areas especially one that is marshy, and/or one formed by subsidence of the ground due to mining. (Compare flush (“marsh; pool”).)
- A very short amount of time.
- (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
adj
verb
- gleam or glow intermittently
- appear briefly
- emit a brief burst of light
- make known or cause to appear with great speed
- protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal
- display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- expose or show briefly
- (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To flash back.
- (transitive) To send by some startling or sudden means.
- (transitive, computing) To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- (intransitive) To burst out into violence.
- (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- (ambitransitive, informal) To expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.)
- (transitive, glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- (transitive, glassmaking) To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- (figurative) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- (intransitive) To be visible briefly.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To communicate quickly.
- (transitive) To make visible briefly.
- (juggling) To perform a flash.
- (intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
noun
- A lamp that produces short bursts of light that synchronizes with a camera shutter for photographing fast-moving objects.
- A photograph produced by such a machine.
- Instrument for studying or observing periodic movement by rendering a moving body visible only at regular intervals.
- scientific instrument that provides a flashing light synchronized with the periodic movement of an object; can make moving object appear stationary
noun
- equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other)
- television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam
- (computer graphics, video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
- A judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.
- (photography) A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
- A vaulted room.
noun
- an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies
- Any optical device used to view photographic slides.
- a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
- (mining, historical) The manager of a colliery, who directs its workings and ventilation.
- Someone who watches television.
- (computing) A program that displays the contents of a file.
- (now historical) An appointed inspector or examiner:
- Someone who views a spectacle; an onlooker or spectator.
noun
- (photography) A camera shutter.
- (surgery) An object used to obstruct a hole, such as a fissure of the palate.
- (firearms) Any device for preventing the escape of gas through the breech mechanism of a breech-loading gun; a gas check.
- (anatomy) The membrane vessels, etc. that close the obturator foramen, or thyroid foramen, a large opening or fenestra in the anterior part of the hip bone.
- (engineering) A valve closure member (disk, gate, plug, etc.).
- a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate)
noun
- a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera
- (falconry) a leather covering for a hawk's head
- a headdress that protects the head and face
- metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes
- the folding roof of a carriage
- an urban, often lower-income inner-city area
- an aggressive and violent young criminal
- (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal
- protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine
- a protective covering that is part of a plant
- (ophiology) An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja).
- (automotive, chiefly UK) A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
- (colloquial) The prepuce; the foreskin or clitoral hood.
- A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
- (UK) Person wearing a hoodie.
- (nautical) One of the endmost planks (or, one of the ends of the planks) in a ship’s bottom at bow or stern, that fits into the rabbet. (These, when fit into the rabbet, resemble a hood (covering).)
- (slang) Gangster, thug.
- A distinctively colored fold of material, representing a university degree.
- (by extension, especially in the phrase "under the hood") A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.
- (equestrianism) A head and neck covering placed on horses to protect against insects and sunlight, to slow coat growth and for warmth.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A neighborhood.
- (colloquial) The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.
- (slang) Any poor suburb or neighbourhood.
- (falconry) A head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.
- (automotive, chiefly US, Canada) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.
- In the human hand, over the extensor digitorum, an expansion of the extensor tendon over the metacarpophalangeal joint (the extensor hood syn. dorsal hood syn. lateral hood)
- An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
verb
adj
noun
- (informal) Camera.
- (UK, dialect) A ridge or mound of earth.
- A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
- (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.
- (piracy) A bootleg recording of a film recorded in a movie theater.
- A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
- a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion
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verb
noun
noun
- (countable) A spotlight that illuminates a photographic subject from behind.
- (uncountable) Light that is behind a photographic subject.
- (countable) The rear window of a motor car.
- (uncountable) Light shining from a source behind the object of interest or attention.
- (countable) A light attached to an LCD display.
verb
noun
- light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
- the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
- a large flow
- an overwhelming number or amount
- (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
- The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
- An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
- Menstrual discharge; menses.
- A floodlight.
verb
- supply with an excess of
- cover with liquid, usually water
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
- become filled to overflowing
- To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
- (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- (Internet, ambitransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
- To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
noun
- light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
- (chiefly in the plural) Powerful artificial illumination with a broad beam, especially in a series of units on pylons used to illuminate a sports ground.
- A projector of a bright beam of light for use in theatres and studios; a flood
verb
noun
- (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
- (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- (music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- (photography) An f-stop.
- (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- (UK, grammar, informal) Ellipsis of full stop.
- the event of something ending
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- the act of stopping something
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a spot where something halts or pauses
punct
verb
- (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- (causative, transitive) To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
- (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- (intransitive) Not to continue.
- (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- come to a halt, stop moving
- stop from happening or developing
- cause to end
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- render unsuitable for passage
- interrupt a trip
noun
- a camera lens that magnifies the image
- (photography) A lens which produces a magnified view of distant objects and which is sufficiently compact to have a physical length shorter than its focal length (as distinct from a long-focus lens).
- (photography) A lens having a long focal length which produces a magnified view of distant objects.
noun
- (photography) The piece of film exposed to light.
- (horticulture) The amount of sun, wind etc. experienced by a particular site.
- (photography) An instance of taking a photograph.
- (uncountable) Lack of protection from weather or the elements.
- (social media) The degree to which an individual, their content, or their brand is seen by the target market or the general public; internet fame.
- The act of exposing something, such as a scandal.
- (uncountable) The condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected.
- (countable, uncountable) That part which is facing or exposed to something, e.g. the sun, weather, sky, or a view.
- (photography) Details of the time and f-number used.
- The act or condition of being at risk of financial losses.
- the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate
- abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving an infant out in the open)
- the act of exposing film to light
- a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format
- presentation to view in an open or public manner
- the disclosure of something secret
- aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces
- vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain
- the state of being vulnerable or exposed
- the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience
noun
- (film) A light fixture used for set lighting and seen in the frame of a shot as part of the scenery.
- (British) A part of an exam or series of exams in which the candidate has to demonstrate their practical ability
- (theater) A prop that has some degree of functionality, rather than being a mere imitation.
- Laboratory experiment, test or investigation
adj
- Being likely to be effective and applicable to a real situation; able to be put to use.
- Of a person, having skills or knowledge that are practical.
- Relating to, or based on, practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis.
- (film) Light fixtures used for set lighting and seen in the frame of a shot as part of the scenery.
- (theater, not comparable) Of a prop: having some degree of functionality, rather than being a mere imitation.
- concerned with actual use or practice
- being actually such in almost every respect
- having or put to a practical purpose or use
- guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory
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verb
noun
noun
- A device for giving shifting effects of color to a photograph. The unmounted print, made translucent, is illuminated from behind with colored light.
- A combination of three optical lanterns for projecting objects on a screen in natural colors. The images of three partial photographs taken through color screens (red, green, and blue, respectively) are superimposed. Each image is given its own primary color, and these colors blend and reproduce the colors of the object.
verb
- (transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
- expose to light, of photographic film
- (computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.
- (transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).
- (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
- To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to any other stress, in order to test the reaction, resistance, etc.
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
- abandon by leaving out in the open air
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- expose or make accessible to some action or influence
- to show, make visible or apparent
- remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
- reveal to view as by removing a cover
noun
verb
noun
- (informal) An elitist or snobbish person.
- A language pedant or snob; one who practices linguistic elitism.
- (dialectal or slang, chiefly derogatory) A nose or snout.
- (Internet slang, childish, humorous) Snout; especially of a dog ("doggo"), cat ("catto"), or snake ("snek").
- (theater, photography) A cylindrical or conical attachment used on a spotlight to restrict spill light.
- informal terms for the nose
- a person regarded as arrogant and annoying