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lamp

[ lamp ]

noun

  1. any of various devices furnishing artificial light, as by electricity or gas. Compare fluorescent lamp, incandescent lamp.
  2. a container for an inflammable liquid, as oil, which is burned at a wick as a means of illumination.
  3. a source of intellectual or spiritual light:

    the lamp of learning.

  4. any of various devices furnishing heat, ultraviolet, or other radiation:

    an infrared lamp.

  5. a celestial body that gives off light, as the moon or a star.
  6. a torch.
  7. lamps, Slang. the eyes.


verb (used with object)

  1. Slang. to look at; eye.

lamp

/ læmp /

noun

    1. any of a number of devices that produce illumination

      a gas lamp

      an electric lamp

      an oil lamp

    2. ( in combination )

      lampshade

  1. a device for holding one or more electric light bulbs

    a table lamp

  2. a vessel in which a liquid fuel is burned to supply illumination
  3. any of a variety of devices that produce radiation, esp for therapeutic purposes

    an ultraviolet lamp

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lamp1

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
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lamp1

C13 lampe, via Old French from Latin lampas, from Greek, from lampein to shine
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. smell of the lamp, to give evidence of laborious study or effort:

    His dissertation smells of the lamp.

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Example Sentences

But when it’s really going down and there’s really lamps smashing and vases flying and shattering, it was so impressive.

And it estimates British households throw away over 100,000 tonnes of smaller household electrical items, such as kettles and lamps every year.

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It’s quite remarkable what can be achieved with some jewel-tone chunks of clear and multicolored plastic, a couple of high-intensity lamps, a few motors and shiny bits of metal.

Instead, they lit a paraffin lamp in the room near him as a beacon, in case his spirit wished to return to his body.

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By the late 1890s, they were making "lamps for lighthouses" and specialised in aluminium.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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