crosslight
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Light that comes from the side, causing shadows that can obscure objects of view or create strong contrasts.
Uncountable
noun
A traffic light intended principally to allow pedestrian or other traffic from a lesser roadway to cross a busier roadway.
Countable
noun
Illumination directed at the performers or subject matter from opposite sides of the set.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Each great party has felt itself in honor bound to justify its men and measures by elaborate argument, and so it has resulted that the light of science has been too often a crosslight, obscuring what it sought to illumine."
- "Use crosslight on the coat to show the warp and woof, and bring out texture."
- "This positioning will create a crosslight that will leave half your subject in shadow."
- "Such a crosslight emphasizes and defines the forms of trees, buildings, hills and valleys and produces a picture with strong contrasts of darkagainst-light."
- "When the crosslight turned green, silence was much less perilous."
- "Again, the crosslight is best designed to angle slightly upstage taking care not to produce shadows on backings."