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Meanings of dipped head light in English

A lighting device in front of a vehicle designed to light the road ahead while limiting the light towards the other drivers.

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      Examples for "dim light"
      Examples for "dim light"
      1
      Here she saw in the dim light something moving in the water.
      Queer Stories for Boys and Girls
      2
      Her entire demeanor changed; even in the dim light she looked different.
      Affliction
      3
      The ticking of the clock could be heard, in the dim light.
      The Daughters of Danaus
      4
      Nightmaws could not see well, but perhaps the dim light would help.
      Arcanum Unbounded
      5
      It's there to let a dim light down into the cargo area.
      Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
      1
      She stared at him in the passing light of the street lamps.
      Captivity
      2
      Lily's passing light-heartedness sank beneath a renewed sense of failure.
      The House of Mirth
      3
      To fall in love with a passing light on the horizon, madness cannot reach to that pitch.
      The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
      4
      A passing light shone upon her.
      Robert Elsmere
      5
      The glimpse which Jacopo obtained, by that passing light, was the last look he had of his father's countenance.
      The Bravo: A Tale
      1
      The dimmed headlights of the two idling cars poured onto the ground.
      Anthropology of an american girl: a novel
      2
      Once, just once, he caught the glow of dimmed headlights falling on the slope farthest from him.
      Starr, of the Desert
      3
      Through the trees which flanked the house the dimmed headlights of what was presumably Jerry Mitchell's hired car shone faintly like enlarged fire-flies.
      Piccadilly Jim
      1
      Ereko studied the vessels' low beam, their simple square sail configuration.
      Return of the Crimson Guard
      2
      She came through the door, her dark hair almost touching the low beam.
      Cross of St. George
      3
      Down another ladder, to the orlop, where Bolitho had to duck beneath each low beam.
      Honour This Day
      4
      The headlights died back to low beam and the truck rolled forward and stopped again.
      Nothing to lose
      5
      Above her was a naked lightbulb, some dead insects, a low beam covered in cobwebs.
      East of the sun
      1
      In the passing beam of my flashlight, geometric patterns of shadow and light leaped off the crane tracks.
      Fear nothing
      2
      And they have said that thy passing beams have illumined their fugitive life.
      The Confession of a Child of the Century — Volume 2
      3
      Stripped of makeup, the brow and lashes flared white in the passing beams.
      Death du Jour
      4
      'Twas the passing beam, ere the sun goes down.-
      Poems