Lamp (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. any of various devices furnishing artificial light, as by electricity or gas.
  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. the eyes.
verb (used with object)
  1. to look at; eye.
Idioms
  1. to give evidence of laborious study or effort: His dissertation smells of the lamp.
noun
    • any of a number of devices that produce illumination
    • (in combination)
  2. a device for holding one or more electric light bulbs
  3. a vessel in which a liquid fuel is burned to supply illumination
  4. any of a variety of devices that produce radiation, esp for therapeutic purposes
Lamp (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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