lamp
IPA: ɫˈæmp
noun
- A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
- A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
- A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.
- A surname.
- (Internet) Acronym of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP: a popular combination of open source software for use as a web server [An open-source computer operating system kernel.]
- (genetics) Acronym of loop-mediated isothermal amplification.
- (cytology) Acronym of lysosome-associated membrane proteins.
verb
- (UK, slang) To hit, clout, belt, wallop.
- (UK, Ireland) To hunt at night using a lamp, during which bright lights are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.
- (slang, US) To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.
- To make into a table lamp, said of a vase or urn, etc.
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Examples of "lamp" in Sentences
- The lamp of ghee was lighted with that luster.
- The is the oil lamp in which the genie resides.
- Kerosene lamps replaced the colza oil lamps in the 1870s.
- After the end of light, even a flickering lamp is bright.
- Hindus used it in votive lamps and considered the oil sacred.
- The depiction of a flame in a lamp is also reminiscent of plasma.
- And Bee thinks that the lamp is a vacuum cleaner, and gets to it.
- I think the picture of the oil lamp is superfluous and misleading.
- The light pipe is attached to the parabolic reflector of the sulfur lamp.
- Underneath the lamp is a great saucer to catch the oil which drips from it.
- The fat of the demons was used as oil and their nerves as wick for the lamp.
- The reflector controls the direction and spread of light cast from the lamp.
- The output of the lamp is directed to the microscope by a liquid light guide.
- In one hand he carried his artificial sun, which he calls lamp, in the other hand
- Designed by British designer Ross Lovegrove for Yamagiwa, the Andromeda lamp is an artificial structure for capturing artificial light.
- A lamp is a successor, for, when a lamp is almost out, another may be lighted by it; it is a succession, for by this means David shall not want a man to stand before God.
- For those interested this lamp is available now in two different styles (wall-mount or tabletop) for 19,950 yen (about $227) for white and 23,100 yen (about $262) for red from here.
- This information aesthetics post has “a light that ‘blushes’ in response to the emotional pitch of a mobile phone. the lamp is activated by the Electromagnetic field (EMF) emitted from a mobile phone & continues blushing for 5 minutes after the call has ended, hereby prolonging the memory of the otherwise transient conversation”. ambient blushing light