Lamp
[læmp]
Definition
(noun.) an artificial source of visible illumination.
(noun.) a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs.
Edited by Erna--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A thin plate or lamina.
(n.) A light-producing vessel, instrument or apparatus; especially, a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial light.
(n.) Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp.
(n.) A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity. See Incandescent lamp, under Incandescent.
Typist: Nelly
Definition
n. a vessel for burning oil with a wick and so giving light: a light of any kind.—v.i. (Spens.) to shine.—ns. Lamp′ad (rare) a lamp or candlestick a torch; Lamp′adary in the Greek Church one who looks after the lamps and carries a lighted taper before the patriarch; Lampaded′romy an ancient Greek torch-race in honour of Prometheus &c.; Lamp′adist one who ran in a torch-race; Lampad′omancy the art of divining by the flame of a lamp or torch; Lamp′black the black substance formed by the smoke of a lamp: the soot or amorphous carbon obtained by burning bodies rich in that element such as resin petroleum and tar or some of the cheap oily products obtained from it; Lamp′-burn′er that part of a lamp in which the wick is held; Lamp′-chim′ney Lamp′-glass a glass funnel placed round the flame of a lamp; Lamp′-fly (Browning) a firefly.—adj. Lamp′ic pertaining to or derived from a lamp or flame.—ns. Lamp′ion a kind of small lamp; Lamp′-light the light shed by a lamp or lamps; Lamp′-light′er a person employed to light street-lamps: that by which a lamp is lighted as a spill or torch; Lamp′-post the pillar supporting a street-lamp; Lamp′-shell a terebratuloid or related brachiopod having a shell like an antique lamp.—Smell of the lamp to show signs of great elaboration or study.
v.i. (Scot.) to run wild to scamper: to go jauntily.
Typed by Laverne
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see lamps filled with oil, denotes the demonstration of business activity, from which you will receive gratifying results. Empty lamps, represent depression and despondency. To see lighted lamps burning with a clear flame, indicates merited rise in fortune and domestic bliss. If they give out a dull, misty radiance, you will have jealousy and envy, coupled with suspicion, to combat, in which you will be much pleased to find the right person to attack. To drop a lighted lamp, your plans and hopes will abruptly turn into failure. If it explodes, former friends will unite with enemies in damaging your interests. Broken lamps, indicate the death of relatives or friends. To light a lamp, denotes that you will soon make a change in your affairs, which will lead to profit. To carry a lamp, portends that you will be independent and self-sustaining, preferring your own convictions above others. If the light fails, you will meet with unfortunate conclusions, and perhaps the death of friends or relatives. If you are much affrighted, and throw a bewildering light from your window, enemies will ensnare you with professions of friendship and interest in your achievements. To ignite your apparel from a lamp, you will sustain humiliation from sources from which you expected encouragement and sympathy, and your business will not be fraught with much good.
Edited by Annabel
Unserious Contents or Definition
A light.
Typed by Ewing
Examples
- Five minutes later a lamp was lit in a room upon the first floor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Edison himself began at that point, and his note-books show that he made various experiments with this type of lamp at a very early stage. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I took off the kettle and blew out the lamp, for the water was spurting over the floor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- That first revival seemed like the flicker of a dying lamp. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from a book. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He trimmed the lamp, arranged his table, and said, Now, I am ready to begin. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Beneath the nearest lamp-post he glanced at his watch and saw that the time was close on eleven. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But I remember with the blowing of the train the lamp of the engine blew by over my head and pieces of steel flew by like swallows. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Her hand remained on the key of the lamp as she turned to him slowly. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Miss Pross had lighted the lamp, but had put it aside in a corner, that they might enjoy the fire-light undisturbed. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- We approached the door; but suddenly a woman appeared out of the shadow and stood in the golden track of the lamp-light. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- In a suit against the Boston Incandescent Lamp Company et al. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This fact he utilized by the means which he has described, a lamp having a filamentary carbon burner in a nearly perfect vacuum. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Then followed the famous observation of the swinging lamp by the then young Galileo, about 1582, while lounging in the cathedral of Pisa. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Andreu Nin saw Gomez's face draw with hate in the light of the reading lamp. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I started in to make a number of these lamps, but I soon found that the X-ray had affected poisonously my assistant, Mr. Dally, so that his hair came out and his flesh commenced to ulcerate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The first year the lamps cost us about $1. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A friend of mine met them the other afternoon in the Park--quite late, after the lamps were lit. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The cheapness of calcium carbide has made it possible for the isolated farmhouse to discard oil lamps and to have a private gas system. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- These patents may be roughly tabulated as follows: Incandescent lamps and their manufacture. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn, an indistinct form against the dark street now dotted with lamps, looms in my Lady's view, bigger and blacker than before. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In about two minutes he raised his head, and said: Upton, in fifteen years you will be making forty thousand lamps a day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Here and there, some early lamps were seen to twinkle in the distant city; and in the eastern quarter of the sky the lurid light still hovered. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Among the early noted inventors of incandescent carbon filament lamps were Edison and Maxim of New York, Swan, and Lane-Fox of England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The Sunbury generating plant consisted of an Armington & Sims engine driving two small Edison dynamos having a total capacity of about four hundred lamps of 16 c. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The lamps also were still useable, and thus the interior of the cabin appeared as bright as day to the astonished Tarzan. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- With regard to the conditions attendant upon the manufacture of the lamps, Edison says: When we first started the electric light we had to have a factory for manufacturing lamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Both of your lamps were lit, of course? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The cost of an acetylene generator is about $50 for a small house, and the cost of maintenance is not more than that of lamps. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- As the evening closed in, he begged that the lovely dying light might not be profaned, just yet, by the appearance of the lamps. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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