Sea-light

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

Light from the sea, either due to reflection off the waves or from bioluminescence..

Definitions by Sense

1. Light from the sea, either due to reflection off the waves or from bioluminescence.
2. A light on the seacoast to warn or guide boats.

Example Sentences

A damp mist filled the room and the musty-coloured books that lined the walls were bathed in eerie sea-light.

There it is: an octagonal shaped white house with a thatched roof, my bedroom with the grey sea-light streaming through slanted windows.

It is she, they say, who is waving festival lanterns down there, making such beautiful sea-lights.

The elevation of the lantern above the sea should not, if possible, for sea-lights, exceed 200 feet ; and about 150 feet is sufficient, under almost any circumstances, to give the range which is required.

For the good of man, his father and grandfather planted the high sea-lights upon the Inchcape and the Tyree Coast.

On it's trial as a sea-light at Havre the result was unsatisfactory, as the compromise of merging two different curves in the design halved the concentration of light obtainable from a complete parabolic reflector without gaining sufficient compensation from the wider spread of weak light from the elliptic portion.

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Word Forms

• sea-lights
• sealight
• sea light

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