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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.
EXPANDa celestial body that gives off light, as the moon or a star.
verb (used with object)
8.
Slang. to look at; eye.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
9.
smell of the lamp, to give evidence of laborious study or effort: His dissertation smells of the lamp.
Origin:
1150–1200; Middle English lampe < Old French < Late Latin lampada, for Latin lampas (stem lampad-) < Greek lampás lamp; akin to lámpē torch, lamp, lámpein to shine
1150–1200; Middle English lampe < Old French < Late Latin lampada, for Latin lampas (stem lampad-) < Greek lampás lamp; akin to lámpē torch, lamp, lámpein to shine
Related forms
lamp·less, adjective
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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
EXPANDcarbon, originally from the soot produced by burning oil in lamps.
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Medical Dictionary
lamp (lāmp)
n.
A device that generates light, heat, or therapeutic radiation.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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