英语词汇“vesta lamp”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. A vessel containing oil, which is burnt at a wick, for the purpose of illumination. Now also a vessel of glass or some similar material, enclosing the source of illumination, whether a candle, oil, gas-jet, or incandescent wire. Often preceded by some defining word, as arc lamp, Argand lamp, Davy lamp, electric lamp, gas lamp, spirit lamp, sun lamp, Vesta lamp.

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c1200 Vices & Virtues 33 Hit wile on lampe bernen brihte.

c1230 Hali Meid. 45 As is wiðute lihte oile in a laumpe.

13.. K. Alis. 5253 Tofore the kyng honge..two thousande laumpes of gold.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. ii. 186 Hit is as lewede as a lamp þat no lyght ys ynne.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 258 A laumpe hangith bifore Seint Kateryn.

1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 35^v I haue putte more oille in my lampe to studie by.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. QQii^v Apperyng to hym..in the simylitude of y^e good angell, with great lightes and lampes.

1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xiv. i. 354 Also their lamps,..alembecks, viols, croslets, cucurbits, [etc.].

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iv. 7 Darke Night strangles the trauailing Lampe .

1685 London Gaz. No. 2092/4 A Patent..for enlightening the Streets, by a new sort of Lantern with Lamps.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. III. 29 Seven golden lamps are continually burning before the image.

1806 A. Duncan Nelson's Funeral 13 Lamps, having two candles in each.

1829 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. Heat ix. 47 A quantity of the liquid..was..rapidly distilled into the globe, by the heat of an Argand lamp.

1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. III. 251 Their [actors'] only one object in life is to keep themselves, as they phrase it, ‘before the lamps’; that is to say, in the eyes of the audience, and in the receipt of personal applause.

c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 113/1 Among the disadvantages of the Vesta lamp, are its liability to smoke, and its disagreeable smell.

1892 Electr. Engineer 16 Sept. 283/1 Forked terminals fixed on the ends of the connecting wires serve to complete the circuit between lamp and battery.

单词	vesta lamp
释义	> as lemmas Vesta lamp a. A vessel containing oil, which is burnt at a wick, for the purpose of illumination. Now also a vessel of glass or some similar material, enclosing the source of illumination, whether a candle, oil, gas-jet, or incandescent wire. Often preceded by some defining word, as arc lamp, Argand lamp, Davy lamp, electric lamp, gas lamp, spirit lamp, sun lamp, Vesta lamp. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp lightfatOE lampc1200 lucernec1450 pharos1759 lite1924 c1200 Vices & Virtues 33 Hit wile on lampe bernen brihte. c1230 Hali Meid. 45 As is wiðute lihte oile in a laumpe. 13.. K. Alis. 5253 Tofore the kyng honge..two thousande laumpes of gold. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. ii. 186 Hit is as lewede as a lamp þat no lyght ys ynne. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 258 A laumpe hangith bifore Seint Kateryn. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 35^v I haue putte more oille in my lampe to studie by. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. QQii^v Apperyng to hym..in the simylitude of y^e good angell, with great lightes and lampes. 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xiv. i. 354 Also their lamps,..alembecks, viols, croslets, cucurbits, [etc.]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iv. 7 Darke Night strangles the trauailing Lampe . View more context for this quotation 1685 London Gaz. No. 2092/4 A Patent..for enlightening the Streets, by a new sort of Lantern with Lamps. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. III. 29 Seven golden lamps are continually burning before the image. 1806 A. Duncan Nelson's Funeral 13 Lamps, having two candles in each. 1829 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. Heat ix. 47 A quantity of the liquid..was..rapidly distilled into the globe, by the heat of an Argand lamp. 1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. III. 251 Their [actors'] only one object in life is to keep themselves, as they phrase it, ‘before the lamps’; that is to say, in the eyes of the audience, and in the receipt of personal applause. c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 113/1 Among the disadvantages of the Vesta lamp, are its liability to smoke, and its disagreeable smell. 1892 Electr. Engineer 16 Sept. 283/1 Forked terminals fixed on the ends of the connecting wires serve to complete the circuit between lamp and battery. extracted from lampn.¹ < as lemmas
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