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noun any of various devices furnishing artificial light, as by electricity or gas. Compare fluorescent lamp, incandescent lamp.
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.
lamps, Slang . the eyes.
SEE MORE SEE LESS Idioms for lampsmell of the lamp , to give evidence of laborious study or effort: His dissertation smells of the lamp.
Origin of lamp 1150–1200; Middle English
lampe <Old French <Late Latin
lampada, for Latin
lampas (stem
lampad- ) <Greek
lampás lamp; akin to
lámpē torch, lamp,
lámpein to shine
OTHER WORDS FROM lamp lampless, adjective Words nearby lamp Lammastide, lammergeier, Lamont, L'Amour, Lamoureux, lamp , lampad, lampadaire, Lampang, lampas, lampblack
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At this temperature, the surface glows brightly in infrared, like the lamp on night-vision goggles.
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One model did double-duty as a lamp , another as a bookshelf.
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Another Dem who has been just a heart-beat (or a lamp bash) away from being president.
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“When Tibor died we did a retrospective of MCo., and the lamp was the last thing you saw,” she says.
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That he ends up not lighting a lamp but tangled in the cobwebs is one of the truths of this valuable book.
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So she picks up this lamp and throws it at me across the room.
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I put the lamp down (much to the anxiety of the hovering salesman).
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Soon after passing beneath the lamp mademoiselle vanished into a doorway.
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And he had a lamp before him, and in his hand a tablet of pine wood, whereon he wrote.
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Foulon is carried off; dragged across the square, and hung to the lamp post.
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To enable his friend to read, Tarrant had already lit a lamp .
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He replaced the lamp with a hand that was steady enough now, and went slowly across the picture-gallery.
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British Dictionary definitions for lamp 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
Word Origin for lamp C13 lampe, via Old French from Latin lampas, from Greek, from lampein to shine
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Words related to lamp light, flashlight, beacon, torch, searchlight, gaslight, hurricane lamp
Medical definitions for lamp n. A device that generates light, heat, or therapeutic radiation.
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