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Spotlight   Listen
noun
Spotlight  n.  
1.
The projected spot or circle of light used to illuminate brilliantly a single person or object or group on the stage, leaving the rest of the stage more or less unilluminated.
2.
Hence, conspicuous public notice. (Cant or Colloq.)
3.
A lighting apparatus designed to throw an intense beam of light onto a small area.





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"Spotlight" Quotes from Famous Books



... her hands over her ears, crying out at each lightning flash, her voice drowned in the thunder that followed it close. Then, as she neared the sombre group of buildings, the clouds above them split with a terrific, rending crash, and the whole place stood pitilessly revealed to her, as if a spotlight had been turned on. Lorraine stood aghast. The buildings were not buildings at all. They were rocks, great, black, forbidding boulders standing there on a narrow ridge, having a ...
— Sawtooth Ranch • B. M. Bower


Words linked to "Spotlight" :   illuminate, play down, public eye, illumine, light up, highlight, bring out, spot, prominence


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