flashlight vs searchlight

flashlight

verb
  • To illuminate with a flashlight. 

noun
  • A battery-powered hand-held light source. 

  • A flashgun (device used to create flashes of light for photography). 

searchlight

verb
  • To scan or sweep across like a searchlight. 

noun
  • The light from the above source. 

  • A light source that projects a bright beam of light in any direction, generally for military use. 

How often have the words flashlight and searchlight occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )