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Lamp   /læmp/   Listen
noun
Lamp  n.  A thin plate or lamina. (Obs.)


Lamp  n.  
1.
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).
2.
Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp. "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." "Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared."
3.
(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.
4.
A device that emits radiant energy in the form of heat, infrared, or ultraviolet rays; as, a heat lamp.
Aeolipile lamp, a hollow ball of copper containing alcohol which is converted into vapor by a lamp beneath, so as to make a powerful blowpipe flame when the vapor is ignited.
Arc lamp (Elec.), a form of lamp in which the voltaic arc is used as the source of light.
Debereiner's lamp, an apparatus for the instantaneous production of a flame by the spontaneous ignition of a jet of hydrogen on being led over platinum sponge; named after the German chemist Döbereiner, who invented it. Called also philosopher's lamp.
Flameless lamp, an aphlogistic lamp.
Lamp burner, the part of a lamp where the wick is exposed and ignited.
Lamp fount, a reservoir for oil, in a lamp.
Lamp jack. See 2d Jack, n., 4 (l) & (n).
Lamp shade, a screen, as of paper, glass, or tin, for softening or obstructing the light of a lamp.
Lamp shell (Zool.), any brachiopod shell of the genus Terebratula and allied genera. The name refers to the shape, which is like that of an antique lamp. See Terebratula.
Safety lamp, a miner's lamp in which the flame is surrounded by fine wire gauze, preventing the kindling of dangerous explosive gases; called also, from Sir Humphry Davy the inventor, Davy lamp.
To smell of the lamp, to bear marks of great study and labor, as a literary composition.





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"Lamp" Quotes from Famous Books



... it objected, as at least strange, that when the search after knowledge is so unquestionably meritorious, and study, as we count it, one of the conditions of progress, and learning a lamp to our feet, an ideal should be made of total ignorance, such as Parsifal's. But surely the point is a different one. The point is not Parsifal's ignorance—except, perhaps, in so far as it made for innocence—but the qualities which he possessed, and ...
— The Wagnerian Romances • Gertrude Hall
... this place seem more like a refuge, and I'd rather hear it than the Daggetts tramping overhead and the Ricketts children crying down-stairs. Oh, isn't it nice to be by ourselves in this quaint old room? Turn the lamp down, Robert, so we can see the firelight flicker over everything. Isn't it splendid?—just like a ...
— Driven Back to Eden • E. P. Roe
... can't go home without my child!" And Phronsie's lip began to quiver. "Oh, there she is, Grandpapa!" and she darted off a few steps, where somebody had set the poor thing on the pavement, propped up against a lamp-post. ...
— Five Little Peppers Abroad • Margaret Sidney
... influenced mightily by the past. Patrick Henry spoke with great wisdom when he declared to the Continental Congress, "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience." Mankind is finite. It has the limits of all things finite. The processes of government are subject to the same limitations, and, lacking imperfections, ...
— Modern American Prose Selections • Various
... a tidy housewife, kept the floor of her apartments as white as your hand, the tin plates on the dresser as bright as your lady-love's eyes, and the cooking-stove as neat as the machinery on a Sound steamer. When she was not rubbing the stove with lamp-black she was cooking upon it some savory dish to tempt the palate of her marine monster. Naturally of a hopeful temperament, she went about her work singing softly to herself at times, and would have been very happy ...
— A Rivermouth Romance • Thomas Bailey Aldrich


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