Definitions for lamp
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. lampnoun

   an artificial source of visible illumination

2. lampnoun

   a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs

GCIDERate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lampnoun

   A device that emits radiant energy in the form of heat, infrared, or ultraviolet rays; as, a heat lamp.

2. Lampnoun

   A light-producing vessel, device, instrument or apparatus; formerly referring especially to a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial light; also, a similar device using a gas as the combustible fuel; now referring mainly to an electric lamp. See sense .

3. Lampnoun

   (Elec.) A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity, usually having a glass bulb or tube containing the light-emitting element. Most lamps belong to one of two categories, the Incandescent lamp (See under Incandescent) or the fluorescent lamp. However, see also arc lamp, below.

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. lampnoun

   A device that generates heat, light or other radiation

2. lampnoun

   A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination

3. lampnoun

   A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.

4. lampverb

   to hit, clout, belt, wallop

5. lampverb

   to hunt at night using a lamp; see lamping

6. lampverb

   to hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lampnoun

   Etymology: lampe, French; lampas, Latin.

   1. A light made with oil and a wick.

   O thievish night,
   Why should’st thou, but for some felonious end,
   In thy dark lanthorn thus close up the stars
   That nature hung in heaven, and fill’d their lamps
   With everlasting oil, to give due light
   To the misled and lonely traveller? John Milton.

   In lamp furnaces I used spirit of wine instead of oil, and with the same flame has melted foliated gold. Boyle.

   2. Any kind of light, in poetical language, real or metaphorical.

   Thy gentle eyes send forth a quick’ning spirit,
   And feed the dying lamp of life within me. Nicholas Rowe.

   Cynthia, fair regent of the night,
   O may thy silver lamp from heaven’s high bow’r,
   Direct my footsteps in the midnight hour. John Gay.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lamp

   A lamp is a device that produces light through electric current or combustion, used to illuminate a space. It typically consists of a light source enclosed or mounted within a housing structure, often with a power source and a switch for turning it on or off. Lamps come in various shapes, sizes, and designs, which can include table lamps, floor lamps, wall lamps, ceiling lamps, desk lamps, or even portable handheld lamps. Some lamps can be decorative, creating a particular atmosphere or contributing to a room's aesthetic, while others are designed for specific tasks such as reading, working, or outdoor use.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lampnoun

   a thin plate or lamina

2. Lampnoun

   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

3. Lampnoun

   figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp

4. Lampnoun

   a device or mechanism for producing light by electricity. See Incandescent lamp, under Incandescent

5. Etymology: [OE. (with excrescent p), fr. F. lame, L. lamina. See Lamina.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lamp

   A lamp is a replaceable component such as an incandescent light bulb, which is designed to produce light from electricity. These components usually have a base of ceramic, metal, glass or plastic, which makes an electrical connection in the socket of a light fixture. This connection may be made with a screw-thread base, two metal pins, two metal caps or a bayonet cap. Re-lamping is the replacement of only the removable lamp in a light fixture.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lamp

   lamp, 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. [Fr. lampe—Gr. lampas, -ados—lampein, to shine.]

2. Lamp

   lamp, v.i. (Scot.) to run wild, to scamper: to go jauntily.

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon WurdzRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. LAMP

   A light. LAMPONED To be lighted on.

Rap DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lampverb

   To hang out next to a streetlamp. "I'm on the street, cold lampin'" -- Public Enemy (Cold lampin' with Flavor).

2. lampverb

   To relax while others panic.

3. lampverb

   To punch some one is to lamp them.--82.42.160.30 11:51, 19 Mar 2005 (CET)

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1. LAMP

   What does LAMP stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the LAMP acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. LAMP

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Lamp is ranked #8209 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Lamp surname appeared 4,042 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Lamp.
   
   94.3% or 3,814 total occurrences were White.
   1.8% or 76 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.4% or 59 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.1% or 47 total occurrences were Black.
   0.6% or 27 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.4% or 19 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Furniture
   • Source Of Illumination

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'lamp' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4671

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'lamp' in Nouns Frequency: #1745

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Anagrams for lamp »

1. palm

How to pronounce lamp?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say lamp in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of lamp in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of lamp in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of lamp in a Sentence

1. Matthew Bogdanos:

   Tessa Majors is struggling now up the stairs. Tessa Majors has minutes left to live. Tessa Majors does not realize at this point why Tessa Majors is light-headed or why Tessa Majors's dizzy or why Tessa Majors can't walk or why Tessa Majors can't stand or why Tessa Majors's about to fall, and Tessa Majors will get to this lamp pole and collapse. And Tessa Majors will die -- face down -- on a dirty New York City street at the hands of the defendant and two others.

2. Buddha:

   Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.

3. Patrick Henry:

   I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

4. Rabindranath Tagore:

   Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.

5. Donna Lyerly:

   Before Covid, we were cleaning and polishing, and calling it good. It never occurred to us that we had to kill pathogens, now, we can spend 45 minutes wiping lamp and light switches, remotes, anything anyone would've touched in any way. It all has to be wiped down.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=lamp
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=lamp
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lamp
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=lamp
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lamp
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=lamp
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=lamp
9. ^ The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1989/pg1989-images.html#:~:text=lamp
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
11. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=lamp