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Definition: Photoflood |
PhotofloodNoun1. Light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: PhotofloodSynonyms: flood (n), flood lamp (n), floodlight (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: photo lamp (electrical engineering), photoflood lamp (electrical engineering, laborfine arts), photographic flood lamp, photographic lamp (electrical engineering). |
Crosswords: Photoflood |
| Specialty definitions using "photoflood": photoflood lamp. (references) |
| "Photoflood" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Photoflood" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "photoflood": photoflood lamp. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
photoflood | 2 |
photoflood bulb | 2 |
light photoflood | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "photoflood"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fotolampe (photo lamp, photoflood lamp, photographic lamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | foto-opnamelamp (photo lamp, photoflood lamp, photographic lamp), fotolamp (photo lamp, photoflood lamp, photographic lamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | valokuvauslamppu (photo lamp, photoflood lamp, photographic lamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | lampe pour photographie (photo lamp, photoflood lamp, photographic lamp), lampe photographique (photo lamp, photoflood lamp, photographic lamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Photolampe (photo lamp, photoflood lamp, photographic lamp), Photo-Aufnahme-Lampe (photo lamp, photoflood lamp, photographic lamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φωτογραφικός λαμπτήρας (photo lamp, photoflood lamp, photographic lamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | lampada per fotografia (photo lamp, photoflood lamp, photographic lamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otofloodphay lâmpada para fotografia (photo lamp, photoflood lamp, photographic lamp). (various references) lámpara incandescente de gran voltaje. (various references) fotolampa (photo lamp, photoflood lamp, photographic lamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "photoflood": photofloods. (additional references) | |
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"Photoflood" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Photoflo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-f-h-l-o-o-o-o-p-t" | |
-2 letters: foothold. | |
-4 letters: hoodoo, hoopoo. | |
-5 letters: flood, photo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-f-h-l-o-o-o-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: photofloods. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 68 6F 74 6F 66 6C 6F 6F 64 |
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