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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024lamp /læmp/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Electricitya device that provides artificial light, as by electricity or gas:a fluorescent lamp; a kerosene lamp.
- Electricitya device that provides heat or other radiation:an infrared lamp.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024lamp (lamp),USA pronunciation n. - Electricityany of various devices furnishing artificial light, as by electricity or gas. Cf. 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.
- Electricityany 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.
- Slang Terms lamps, the eyes.
- Idioms smell of the lamp, to give evidence of laborious study or effort:His dissertation smells of the lamp.
v.t. - Slang Termsto look at;
eye.
- Greek lampás lamp; akin to lámpē torch, lamp, lámpein to shine
- Late Latin lampada, for Latin lampas (stem lampad-)
- Old French
- Middle English lampe 1150–1200
lamp′less, adj. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: lamp /læmp/ n - 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
Etymology: 13th Century lampe, via Old French from Latin lampas, from Greek, from lampein to shine |