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Spotlight   /spˈɑtlˌaɪt/   Listen
Spotlight

noun
1.
A focus of public attention.  Synonyms: glare, limelight, public eye.  "When Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency"
2.
A lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer.  Synonym: spot.
verb
(past spotlit; past part. spotlit or spotlighted)
1.
Move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent.  Synonyms: foreground, highlight, play up.  Antonyms: background, play down.
2.
Illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater.





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"Spotlight" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Blackwater's most highly gilded stratum of society, a clever, hard-fighting, never-dying group of athletes who, summer and winter, kept themselves in perfect form, and who had moved rapidly out of obscurity into the dazzling spotlight of championship over their district. For the sake of the practice in it and in preparation for their games in the Eastern Ontario Hockey League, they took on the ...
— To Him That Hath - A Novel Of The West Of Today • Ralph Connor
... He turned off the ignition, and sat quietly for a moment before lighting a cigarette. Then he looked at his wife. She was staring through the windshield at the rocket two hundred yards away. Its smooth polished surface gleamed in the spotlight glare, and it sloped up and up until the eye lost the tip against ...
— Breakaway • Stanley Gimble
... 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


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