carry light

American  

noun

Military.

1. a searchlight used to illuminate a target while it is tracked and fired upon.

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Example Sentences

It had been assumed that neutrinos were essentially massless particles, like the photon particles that carry light.

From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2015

To make Newton's physics work, scientists presumed the existence of a substance called ether, which they thought was necessary to carry light waves through space.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thanks to the light loads their large wings carry, "light planes," which commercial pilots call flivvers, pop-bottles, and of which an unprecedented 2,500 are being turned out this year, are all but foolproof.

From Time Magazine Archive

So, to carry light over such vast distances as that between sun and earth, they postulated the existence of a tenuous, invisible substance called the ether.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thousands upon thousands there are of women that have gone forth from the educational institutions of New England to carry light and knowledge to other parts of our land.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady