shaft
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5.0
- noun
- /ʃæft/
- The theater's stage was adorned with a dramatic shaft of light that highlighted the performers.
- a shaft of light
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Watch on YouTubeYou know, it's sort of tricks you into getting into its wheelbarrow and then it moves you to some place where maybe there's just a shaft of light or maybe there's cool water.
- You know, it's sort of tricks you into getting into its wheelbarrow and then it moves you to some place where maybe there's just a shaft of light or maybe there's cool water.
Examples
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Then they were within the light, a shaft of brightness from a drainage-grate opening in the street above.
Fiction book (1993) -
Light from the burned-out roof fell in straight shafts through the room below.
Fiction book (1991) -
This was a shaft of light from the sky.
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A shaft of light illuminates a wild animal.
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A dog slept in the shaft of sunlight falling through the big front window.
Fiction book (1991) -
As the drawbridge continues to lower, the shaft of light becomes wider.
Fiction book (1990) -
All of a sudden this giant shaft of moonlight breaks through.
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Dark and musty, lit only by shafts of light that flow in through the windows.
Fiction book (1994) -
Tem looked up and saw a shaft of sunlight slanting across the mouth of the hole.
Fiction book (1990) -
The sun made a final appearance, thin shafts of gold light piercing the straggling clouds that remained.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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1.0
A narrow line of light like a sunbeam
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3.4
A line of light that shines from one place to another
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2.5
A narrow line of light from a lamp or the sun
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2.2
A narrow column of light that you can see in the air
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3.5
A narrow beam of light that shines through an opening and lights a small area
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2.0
A narrow beam of light you can see shining through darkness
A beam of sunlight that comes into a room at an angle
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Compounds
- Specialized
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3.5
A tall narrow space in a building where an elevator moves up and down between floors
- Specialized
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4.5
A passage in a building that lets fresh air in and stale air out
- Specialized
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5.2
A metal rod that turns to carry power from an engine to the wheels
- Specialized
A device that measures how a shaft turns and sends that information as a signal
- Specialized
A tall vertical furnace that forces hot gas up through solid material to melt metal
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Etymology
Shaft comes from the old English sceaft, which meant a long 'stick' or pole, and the word later described any long, narrow thing. So a shaft of light is a thin, straight column of light, like a beam.