bulb
noun /bʌlb/
/bʌlb/
enlarge image(also light bulb)the glass part that fits into an electric lamp, etc. to give light when it is switched on- a halogen bulb
- a room lit by bare bulbs (= with no decorative cover)
Extra Examples- Can you remove the bulb and replace it with an energy-efficient one?
- Can you take out the clear bulb and put a pearl one in?
- Coloured bulbs flashed on and off around the sign.
- I think the bulb is going to go. It's been flickering all evening.
- Switch the light off before you change the bulb.
- The fitting in the kitchen takes a fluorescent bulb.
- These low-energy bulbs last much longer than the ordinary ones.
- They sat reading by the light of a 40-watt bulb.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- electric
- light
- 100-watt
- …
- change
- replace
- remove
- …
- light something
- go
- flicker
- …
- the round underground part of some plants, like an onion in shape, that grows into a new plant every year
enlarge image- the bulb fields of Holland
Extra ExamplesTopics Plants and treesc1- These daffodils flower so early because the bulbs have been forced.
- The bulbs were over. All that remained of them were clumps of brown leaves.
- She usually waters the indoor bulbs once a week.
- Place the bulbs close together.
- Over the years the bulbs gradually increase.
- I'm planting some bulbs for next year.
- Get the bulbs into the ground, or they will begin to shrivel.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- flower
- spring
- spring-flowering
- …
- place
- plant
- dig up
- …
- grow
- flower
- sprout
- …
- an object that is like a bulb in shape, for example the end of a thermometer
Word Originlate Middle English: via Latin from Greek bolbos ‘onion, bulbous root’.