What does spotlight mean?

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ˈspɒtˌlaɪtspot·light

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. limelight, spotlight, glare, public eyenoun

    a focus of public attention

    "he enjoyed being in the limelight"; "when Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency"

  2. spotlight, spotverb

    a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer

  3. foreground, highlight, spotlight, play upverb

    move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent

    "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics"

  4. spotlightverb

    illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater

GCIDE

  1. Spotlightnoun

    A lighting apparatus designed to throw an intense beam of light onto a small area.

Wiktionary

  1. spotlightnoun

    a bright, directional light or lamp, especially one used to illuminate the focus or center of attention on a stage

  2. spotlightnoun

    the circle of light shed by a spotlight

  3. spotlightnoun

    the center of attention; the highlight or most important part

    Some people enjoy the spotlight.

  4. spotlightverb

    To illuminate with a spotlight.

    We spotlight the star, but the supporting cast has all the great lines in this scene.

  5. spotlightverb

    To draw attention to.

    The news series served to spotlight corruption.

  6. Etymology: spot + light

Wikipedia

  1. Spotlight

    Spotlight is the second official single by rapper, Gucci Mane from his studio album The State vs. Radric Davis (2009). The song features a guest appearance by American singer Usher. The single was released on October 19, 2009 and was produced by Polow Da Don.

ChatGPT

  1. spotlight

    A spotlight is a powerful, focused beam of light used to illuminate a specific area or person, often used in theaters, photography, or other performances to draw attention to a particular subject. It can also refer to public attention or scrutiny in a metaphorical sense, such as being in the 'spotlight'.

Wikidata

  1. Spotlight

    Spotlight is a system-wide desktop search feature of Apple's OS X operating system. Spotlight is a selection-based search system, which creates a virtual index of all items and files on the system. It is designed to allow the user to quickly locate a wide variety of items on the computer, including documents, pictures, music, applications, and System Preferences. In addition, specific words in documents and in web pages in a web browser's history or bookmarks can be searched. It also allows the user to narrow down searches with creation dates, modification dates, sizes, types and other attributes. Spotlight also offers quick access to definitions from the built-in New Oxford American Dictionary and to calculator functionality. The feature is also available on Darwin, but only through a command-line interface. A similar feature for iOS 3.0 with the same name was announced on March 17, 2009. Spotlight was first announced at the June 2004 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, and then released with Mac OS X v10.4 in April, 2005.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of spotlight in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of spotlight in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of spotlight in a Sentence

  1. Robert James:

    The spotlight is hot, you ca n’t afford to lose a case like this right ?

  2. Trevor Noah:

    You may not feel sorry for Kim Kardashian because she's rich and famous, but what she's going through is terrifying to watch and shines a spotlight on what so many women go through when they choose to leave.

  3. Coverage Perez:

    There were a lot of skeptics in New York, and she earned their trust, and then she got re-elected. … I’ve seen Hillary Clinton up close and personal. The voters of New York saw her up close and personal. And I often judge a person by what they did when they weren't in the spotlight. And Hillary Clinton has spent her entire life breaking down barriers.

  4. Amy Walter:

    We're seeing a touch of optimism creep in, in terms of voters' opinions about the economy, it's not going to turn around overnight. But at least if the trend line is going in the right way, that's good for Democrats. The more Donald Trump is in the spotlight, that's also good for Democrats.

  5. Fikret Novalic:

    Bosnia is again in the spotlight ... and we realize this is a chance for us to join the modern world.

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