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lamp

  [lamp]
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–noun
1. any of various devices furnishing artificial light, as by electricity or gas. Compare fluorescent lamp, incandescent lamp.
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. lamps, Slang. the eyes.
–verb (used with object)
8. Slang. to look at; eye.
—Idiom
9. smell of the lamp, to give evidence of laborious study or effort: His dissertation smells of the lamp.
Origin:
1150–1200; ME lampe < OF < LL lampada, for L lampas (s. lampad-) < Gk lampás lamp; akin to lámpē torch, lamp, lámpein to shine

Related forms:
lampless, adjective
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Slang Dictionary
lamp

  1. tv.
    to look at someone or something. (The “lamps” are the eyes.) : Here, lamp this tire for a minute. It's low isn't it?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

lamp 
c.1200, from O.Fr. lampe (12c.), from L. lampas, from Gk. lampas "torch, lamp, beacon, meteor, light," from lampein "to shine," from PIE base *lap- "to shine" (cf. Lith. lope "light," O.Ir. lassar "flame"). Replaced O.E. leohtfæt "light vessel." Lamp-black (1598) is a pigment made from pure, fine carbon, originally from the soot produced by burning oil in lamps.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: lamp
Pronunciation: 'lamp
Function: noun
: any of various devices for producing light or heat —see KROMAYER LAMP, SLIT LAMP
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

lamp (lāmp)
n.
A device that generates light, heat, or therapeutic radiation.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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