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Definition: Stoplight |
StoplightNoun1. A red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop. 2. A visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: StoplightSynonyms: brake light (n), traffic light (n), traffic signal (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Stoplight |
| Specialty definitions using "stoplight": TRAFFIC TECHNICIAN. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stoplight | 40 |
picture stoplight | 5 |
intersection stoplight | 5 |
stoplight switch | 4 |
clipart stoplight | 4 |
fish parrot stoplight | 3 |
diet stoplight | 3 |
chart stoplight | 2 |
art clip stoplight | 2 |
child diet stoplight | 2 |
purple stoplight | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stoplight"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sinjal 'stop', dritë e kuqe e semaforit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стоп-лампа (stop-lamp, tail light), червена светлина на светофар. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 交通信号灯. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | brzdové svìtlo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | چراغ ترمز, چراغ علامت توقف وساءطنقلیه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stopplicht (brake light, red light, stop-light). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 停止信号 (stop signal), ストックホル 症候群 (stock point, Stockhom syndrome, stomach, stop, stop bit, stop motion, stopper, stopwatch, straight, straight course, straight perm, straight permanent wave, straight punch, strap, strategy, streaker, streaking, stream, streamer, street, street angel, street furniture, street girl, streetcar, streetwalker, streptomycin, stress, stretch, stretching, stride, strike, strike zone, striker, string, strings, strip, strip girl, strip mill, strip show, stripe, stripper, striptease, structure), 制動灯 (brake light). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せいどうとう (brake light), ストップライト , ていしし""う (stop signal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oplightstay стоп-сигнал. (various references) crveno signalno svetlo. (various references) luz de freno, la sema/fora. (various references) stoppljus. (various references) stop lambası, kırmızı ışık (red light). (various references) стоп-сигнал (tail light), червоний сигнал світлофора. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stoplight": stoplights. (additional references) | |
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"Stoplight" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Stoppit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stoplight" (pronounced stÄ"plī't) |
| 3 | -l ī' t | acolyte, backlight, candlelight, cryolite, daylight, flashlight, floodlight, headlight, highlight, impolite, inflight, lazulite, limelight, moonlight, niccolite, overflight, satellite, searchlight, skylight, socialite, spotlight, starlight, sunlight, twilight. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: spotlight. | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-l-o-p-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: glottis, plights, spotlit. | |
-3 letters: holist, lights, lithos, pilots, pistol, plight, polish, slight, spigot, spilth, spoilt, thiols, tights, tilths. | |
-4 letters: ghost, gilts, glops, glost, hilts, hoist, holts, light, litho, phots, pilot, piths, plots, polis, posit, shott, sight, slipt, sloth, spilt, split, spoil, stilt, stopt, thiol, tight, tilth, tilts, toils, toits, tophi, tophs, topis. | |
-5 letters: ghis. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-l-o-p-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: postflight, spotlights, stoplights. | |
+2 letters: pathologist, spotlighted. | |
+3 letters: pathologists, spotlighting, trothplights. | |
+4 letters: herpetologist. | |
+5 letters: anthropologist, antiphlogistic, herpetologists, histopathology, photobiologist, photogeologist. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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