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RED LIGHT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The signal to stop
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("red light" is a kind of...):
stoplight; traffic light; traffic signal (a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A cautionary sign of danger
Synonyms:
red light; warning light
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("red light" is a kind of...):
visual signal (a signal that involves visual communication)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "red light"):
idiot light (a colored warning light on an instrument panel (as for low oil pressure))
Context examples:
I recollect well how indignantly my heart beat, as I saw his crafty face, with the appropriately red light of the fire upon it, preparing for something else.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The red light in them was lurid, as if the flames of hell-fire blazed behind them.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
We spoke no more, though we had become too used to one another for the silence to be awkward; and when the red light and the white had disappeared we returned to the cabin to finish the interrupted supper.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The sheep are feeding there, when I kneel up, early in the morning, in my little bed in a closet within my mother's room, to look out at it; and I see the red light shining on the sun-dial, and think within myself, Is the sun-dial glad, I wonder, that it can tell the time again?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The setting sun, low down in the sky, was just dropping behind Kettleness; the red light was thrown over on the East Cliff and the old abbey, and seemed to bathe everything in a beautiful rosy glow.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me; with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
