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/ɪlˈɛktrɪk-laɪt bəlb/ Listen

Electric-light bulb

noun

Electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity. Synonyms: bulb, electric light, incandescent lamp, light bulb, lightbulb.

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... The cards fell all in order. He went up at once and found himself alongside a German, whom, as he had promised and prophesied to himself, he destroyed. She was a mine-layer, and needed only a jar to dissipate like a cracked electric-light bulb. He was somewhat impressed by the contrast between the single-handed game fifty feet below, the ascent, the attack, the amazing result, and when he descended again, his cards just as he ...

— Sea Warfare • Rudyard Kipling

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