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lamp
[ lamp ]
noun
- any of various devices furnishing artificial light, as by electricity or gas. Compare fluorescent lamp, incandescent lamp.
- a container for an inflammable liquid, as oil, which is burned at a wick as a means of illumination.
- a source of intellectual or spiritual light:
the lamp of learning.
- any of various devices furnishing heat, ultraviolet, or other radiation:
an infrared lamp.
- a celestial body that gives off light, as the moon or a star.
- a torch.
- lamps, Slang. the eyes.
verb (used with object)
- Slang. to look at; eye.
lamp
/ ±ôæ³¾±è /
noun
- any of a number of devices that produce illumination
a gas lamp
an electric lamp
an oil lamp
- ( in combination )
lampshade
- a device for holding one or more electric light bulbs
a table lamp
- a vessel in which a liquid fuel is burned to supply illumination
- any of a variety of devices that produce radiation, esp for therapeutic purposes
an ultraviolet lamp
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of lamp1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of lamp1
Idioms and Phrases
- smell of the lamp, to give evidence of laborious study or effort:
His dissertation smells of the lamp.
Example Sentences
"He did turn around and as he did so he was under the street lamp and the hood moved and I got a very good view of his face."
"Now we've got a little pen torch, just in case, whereas the old pitmen's lamps used to have a little bulb, but if your battery fused you were up the creek really."
The council also said that there are 20mph speed limit reminder signs on every lamp post between the end of the old 20mph section and the speed camera, which has a 20mph reminder.
For a year, she had been having furniture, vases, lamps and oil paintings of the ocean delivered to the couple’s San Francisco loft, where they had little room for them.
In the evenings, she uses candles and paraffin lamps for light and keeps herself entertained with her battery-powered radio and her library of books.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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