| 释义 |
lamp-holder
Also lampholder.
[lamp n.1 4 b.]
A device for securing an electric lamp, a lamp-socket.
1885Electrician XIV. 416/1 Fig. 1 is the lamp-holder as fitted at the Royal Courts of Justice. 1907Installation News Sept. 14/2 In wiring Electroliers..it is generally found to be impracticable to group wires into the lamp⁓holders. 1935Discovery June 183/2 An operation which is typical of a vast number of manipulative jobs in industry—the assembly of an ordinary electric lampholder consisting of eighteen parts. 1963Times 6 May p. vii/5 Similarly, when in the interests of safety the traditional brass lampholder was replaced by its plastics successor, this was more or less a slavish imitation of the metal one. |