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单词 lamp-room
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lamp1 /lamp/

noun
  1. Any appliance or device containing a source of artificial light, usu an electric light bulb
  2. A container with a wick for burning oil, paraffin, etc to give light
  3. Any source of light
  4. An eye (archaic and slang)
intransitive verb (Spenser)

To shine

transitive verb (archaic)
  1. To illumine
  2. To supply with lamps
ORIGIN: Fr lampe, and Gr lampas, -ados, from lampein to shine

lampˈad noun (rare or poetic)

A lamp, candlestick or torch

lampˈadary noun

  1. In the Greek Church, someone who looks after the lamps and carries a lighted taper before the patriarch
  2. A candelabrum

lampadedˈromy or lampadephorˈia noun

(Gr lampadēdromiā, lampadēphoriā) an ancient Greek torch-race

lampˈadist noun

A runner in a torch-race

lampˈadomancy noun

(Gr manteiā divination) divination by flame

lampˈing adjective (poetic)

Shining

noun

The hunting of rabbits, etc by using bright lights to blind them

lampˈion noun

An oil lamp, often in a decorative coloured-glass pot

lampˈblack noun

  1. Soot obtained from a fuel-burning lamp, or from burning substances rich in carbon (eg mineral oil, turpentine, tar, etc) in a limited supply of air
  2. A pigment made from it and used in chemical and industrial processes, etc

transitive verb

To blacken with lampblack

lampbrush chromosome noun

A chromosome observed during the early stages of meiosis in many eukaryotes, having a characteristic appearance due to the orderly series of lateral loops of chromatin arranged in pairs on either side of the chromosome axis

lampˈ-burner noun

The part of a lamp from which the flame rises

lamp chimney or lampˈ-glass noun

A glass funnel placed round the flame of a lamp

lampˈ-fly noun (Browning)

Perh a glow-worm, or a firefly

lampˈholder noun

A socket for an electric bulb

lampˈhole noun

A shaft for lowering a lamp into a sewer

lampˈ-hour noun

The energy required to maintain a lamp for an hour

lampˈlight noun

The light shed by a lamp or lamps

lampˈlighter noun

  1. Formerly, a person employed to light street-lamps
  2. A spill or other means of lighting a lamp (US)

lampˈlit adjective

lampˈpost or lampˈ-standard noun

The pillar supporting a street-lamp

lampˈ-room noun

  1. A room in which miners' or other lamps are kept, tended, etc
  2. The room at the top of a lighthouse, housing the lamp itself

lampˈshade noun

A decorative or protective cover designed to moderate or direct the light of a lamp or light bulb

lampˈ-shell noun

A brachiopod, esp Terebratula or a similar genus, from its shell shaped like an antique lamp

smell of the lamp

To show signs of great elaboration or study

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