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# headlight

«headlight» in Mova's school dictionary: **A strong light at the front of a car, bus, bike, train or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a headlight, headlights)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A strong light at the front of a car, bus, bike, train or other vehicle that helps the driver see the road at night and lets others see the vehicle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headlight/#m1)

2) A light worn on the head (more often called a headlamp or head torch). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headlight/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In road safety lessons: cars use headlights at night and in fog and rain; cyclists need a white front light and a red back light; walkers should wear bright or reflective clothes so headlights show them up. In science, headlights show how light travels in straight lines and reflects off reflectors. In stories, «like a deer in headlights» means frozen with fear. Phrases: turn on the headlights, dip/high beam, caught in the headlights.

### examples

- The car's headlights lit up the dark road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headlight/#x1)
- Turn on your headlights when it gets dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headlight/#x2)
- My reflective vest shines when headlights hit it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headlight/#x3)
- Bikes need a front light, like a car's headlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headlight/#x4)
- The deer froze in the headlights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headlight/#x5)
- One of the headlights is broken, so Dad is fixing it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headlight/#x6)
- Drivers dip their headlights so they don't dazzle other drivers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headlight/#x7)

### note

One word: headlight. Usually used in the plural for a car (headlights). «Like a deer/rabbit caught in the headlights» means too shocked to move.

### In the corpora

- [Bright clothes help drivers see you by day, and reflective clothes shine in headlights at night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/5-bikes-and-scooters/15/)
- [Reflective material sends a car's headlight beam back towards the driver.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/43-buses-trains-and-being-seen/16/)
- [Fluorescent colours glow brightly in daylight, but reflective material is what shines back in headlights at night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/19/)
- [A reflective strip bounces car headlights straight back to the driver, so a cyclist wearing one is seen from much further away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/20-light-and-shadows/15/)
- [Road lines are painted with special paint that has tiny glass beads in it, so the lines reflect headlights at night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/31-roads-and-road-signs/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «headlight» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headlight/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.