high beam

noun

: a vehicle headlight beam with a long-range focus

Examples of high beam in a Sentence

The car's headlights were on high beam. Turn off your high beams.
Recent Examples on the Web The actress’s enormous eyes serve as high beams that pierce through all the dirty chaos. Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024 Moore showed a video Thursday from a diver’s point of view in the grey and dark water, describing it as similar to driving in a snowstorm with high beams on. Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2024 One official likened diving in the Patapsco to driving in a snowstorm with high beams on. Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2024 Every Tundra arrives with the Toyota Safety Sense 2.5 suite of driver-assistance technology delivering automatic high beams, lane departure alert with steering assist, blind spot monitoring with rear cross-traffic Alert and trailer detection also come standard on Limited trims, and up. Josh Max, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024 Dealers will reconfigure the vehicle high beam parameters, free of charge. Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024 But, while driving, the lights work just like standard high beam, low beam headlights. Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024 Safety and Driver-Assistance Features All Tundras are stocked with the Toyota Safety Sense 2.5 suite of driver-assistance technology that includes automatic high beams, lane departure alert with steering assist, and more. Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 8 Aug. 2023 Dealers will inspect and repair or replace the high beam headlights, as necessary free of charge. Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1932, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of high beam was in 1932

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“High beam.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high%20beam. Accessed 5 Jun. 2024.

Kids Definition

high beam

noun
: a vehicle headlight beam aimed for long distances
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