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sidelight

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Motor vehicles
side·light /ˈsaɪdlaɪt/ noun [countable] British English  TTCone of the two small lights next to the main front lights on a car 〔汽车的〕侧灯 SYN American English parking light4  See picture on 见图 Page A2 Car 汽车5 see picture at 见图 car
Examples from the Corpus
sidelightA $ 1 million lawsuit, with amusing sidelights and important ramifications for the federal budget debate, must be adjudicated.By four o'clock car sidelights were on, small-eyed in the gathering gloom.In the end we compromised, Singh apologised and I agreed to pay for repairs to his sidelight.Through the frosted window blazed the cold light of winter morning; sidelight, the most harsh.It is an odd sidelight, to coin a phrase, on road accidents.Oscar read it carefully by the sidelights of his huge vehicle.
side·light nounChineseSyllable
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sidelight
sidelight /ˈsaɪdlaɪt/ noun [countable] British English
one of the two small lights next to the main front lights on a car
   SYN  parking light American English
     
THESAURUS
■ on a car
    headlight (also headlamp) one of the two large lights at the front of a vehicle: It was getting dark so she switched the headlights on.
    sidelight British English, parking light American English one of the two small lights next to the main lights, at the front and back of a car
    tail light one of the two red lights at the back of a vehicle
    indicator British English, turn signal American English one of the lights on a car that flash to show which way the car is turning


side·lightBrE /ˈsaɪdlaɪt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈsaɪdlaɪt/ 🔊 noun~ (on sb/sth) a piece of information, usually given by accident or in connection with another subject, that helps you to understand sb/sth 意外线索;侧面了解的情况;间接消息(BrE) either of a pair of small lights at the front of a vehicle (车辆前面的)侧灯