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ˈside-light
Also side light, sidelight.
[side n.1 Cf. Fris. sydljacht, -ljocht (in sense 2), G. seitenlicht (in sense 1).]
1. a. Light coming from the side.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 818 The side light that the sunne beames cast all night long. 1891Cent. Dict. s.v., To take a photograph by side-light.
b. fig. Incidental light or information upon a subject.
1862J. Brown Let. 4 Feb. (1912) 193, I like so much your saying that about the breeding of my mind, and all the side-lights and sub-suggestions. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. 221 The reader needs all the side-lights which can be thrown upon its translated forms. 1886Symonds Renaiss. It., Cath. React. (1898) VII. x. 120 Side light may be thrown upon Sarpi's judgment..by considering [etc.].
2. a. A window, or opening for light, in the side of a building, ship, lamp, etc.
1827Faraday Chem. Manip. i. 14 One side light should however in all cases be provided [in a laboratory]. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2174/1 Side-light,..a plate of glass in a frame fitted to an air-port in a ship's side. 1898Cycling 61 Sliding side-lights should be fitted,..and lamps with weak springs are to be avoided.
b. A side-portion of a large window; a window by the side of a door or other window.
1851Hawthorne Ho. Seven Gables iv, She..gazed through the dusty side-lights of the portal. 1860G. E. Street in Archæol. Cant. III. 117 The tracery has quatrefoiled circles over the side-lights.
3. Naut.
a. A light carried on either side of a ship under way in the night.
1887in Cassell's Encycl. Dict.
b. A night-lantern in the gangway of a warship.
1891in Cent. Dict.
4. One of the small warning lights on either side of the front (or rear) of a motor vehicle, which when lit show the position and width of the vehicle, esp. at night; a sidelamp.
1912Motor Manual (ed. 14) iii. 120 Much better side lights have been provided than ever existed before. 1955Times 16 Aug. 2/7 British motorists are singularly reluctant to use the lights of their cars—motorists abroad invariably switch on their sidelights much earlier. 1973A. Behrend Samarai Affair xi. 108 One headlamp and both sidelights had been broken. |