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lamp
[lamp]
noun
any of various devices furnishing artificial light, as by electricity or gas.
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.
Slang.lamps, the eyes.
verb (used with object)
Slang.to look at; eye.
lamp
/ æ /
noun
any of a number of devices that produce illumination
an electric lamp
a gas 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 51Թ Forms
- lampless adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of lamp1
51Թ 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
Players don a pair of high-tech glasses called "Dateviators" that turn household objects including fridges, doors and lamps into potential love interests.
The entire town appears to have embraced the event, with turquoise welcome flags now waving from every lamp post.
For ethical reasons, there are no plans to display the piece, but a photo of the lamp on the commandant of Buchenwald's desk is on the Museum of Resistance and Deportation of Besancon's website.
How sorrowful that it has come to this parting of ways, 140 years after the French presented us with that lovely monument to our shared spirit, the figure who lifts her lamp over Liberty Island.
"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."
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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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