lamp

IPA: ɫˈæmp

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.

(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.

Examples of "lamp" in Sentences

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.
Underneath the lamp is a great saucer to catch the oil which drips from it.
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