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.
- 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.
- 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.
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