lamp

noun

/læmp/

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a device that uses electricity, oil or gas to produce light
- a desk/bedside lamp
- a street lamp
- an oil lamp
- (British English) a paraffin lamp
- (especially North American English) a kerosene lamp
- a fluorescent/halogen lamp
- to switch on/turn off a lamp
see also arc lamp, Davy lamp, floor lamp, fog lamp, gas lamp, hurricane lamp, lava lamp, safety lamp, spirit lamp, standard lamp, table lamp
Extra Examples
- An oil lamp burned in the darkness.
- The study was lit only by a small lamp.
- He got into bed and switched off the bedside lamp.
- She could see the rain in the light of the street lamps.
- There were oil lamps hanging over the veranda.
Topics Houses and homesa2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- bedside
- desk
- floor
- …
verb + lamp
- light
- switch on
- turn on
- …
lamp + verb
- illuminate something
- light something
- burn
- …
lamp + noun
- shade
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an electrical device that produces rays of heat and that is used for medical or scientific purposes
- an infrared/ultraviolet lamp
- The specimen was viewed under an ultraviolet lamp.
see also blowlamp, sunlamp

Word OriginMiddle English: via Old French from late Latin lampada, from Latin lampas, lampad- ‘torch’, from Greek.

verb

/læmp/

(British English, informal)

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they lamp	/læmp/ /læmp/
he / she / it lamps	/læmps/ /læmps/
past simple lamped	/læmpt/ /læmpt/
past participle lamped	/læmpt/ /læmpt/
-ing form lamping	/ˈlæmpɪŋ/ /ˈlæmpɪŋ/

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to hit somebody very hard
- lamp somebody The guy lamped me.
- lamp somebody something I'd have lamped her one!