What is another word for deadlight?

Pronunciation: [dˈɛdla͡ɪt] (IPA)

Deadlight is a term used to describe a window or port on a ship that does not open and cannot be used for ventilation or observation. There are several synonyms for the word deadlight including porthole, scuttle, bullseye, and window. While deadlight is commonly used in context with ships, it is sometimes used as a synonym for blackout curtains or blinds that are used to block out external light sources. Regardless of usage, these synonyms highlight the function of a window or opening that provides light, but cannot be used as an access point.

What are the hypernyms for Deadlight?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Deadlight?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for deadlight (as nouns)

What are the holonyms for Deadlight?

Holonyms are words that denote a whole whose part is denoted by another word.
  • holonyms for deadlight (as nouns)

Usage examples for Deadlight

"Let the sea make a noise, and the fulness thereof; let the floods clap their hands" for joy, that the Cooks and the Falconers, the Ansons and the Byrons, of olden time, are at length banished from the department of nautical literature, and no oceanic description will be listened to unless said or sung by a ci-devant midshipman or a half-boy, half-woman poet, who lies in his berth, and sees, through the four-inch-plank deadlight of a packet, the full moon rising in the west.
"An Old Sailor's Yarns"
Nathaniel Ames
The brick wall of the Customs House, held from collapsing by a row of rusty iron stars, seemed to bulge more than its wont for the moment-its upper window, a ship's deadlight, round and expressionless as the eye of a codfish.
"The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story"
Various
I heard the cook close the door behind me and bolt it and cover the deadlight with a tin pan.
"The Mutineers"
Charles Boardman Hawes

Related words: deadlight remake, deadlight movie, dead light book, dead light fanfiction, dead light comic

Deadlight is a 3D survival horror video game developed by Tequila Works and published by Microsoft Studios. The game was released on 22 June 2012 for Windows.

A remastered version was released as Deadlight: Director's Cut for

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