Definitions for Lamp

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Lamp lamp

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IPA: /læmp/

Lamp is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in Lamp (almp).

Definitions for Lamp

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:
4. any of various devices furnishing heat, ultraviolet, or other radiation:
5. a celestial body that gives off light, as the moon or a star.
6. a torch.
7. lamps, Slang. the eyes.

Idioms

1. smell of the lamp, to give evidence of laborious study or effort:

verb (used with object)

1. Slang. to look at; eye.

Origin of Lamp

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

Examples for Lamp

So she picks up this lamp and throws it at me across the room.

Another Dem who has been just a heart-beat (or a lamp bash) away from being president.

I put the lamp down (much to the anxiety of the hovering salesman).

“When Tibor died we did a retrospective of MCo., and the lamp was the last thing you saw,” she says.

She was reading by the lamp, and the door into the hall stood open.

Yet he glances behind him and shivers, while the lamp burns pale.

Phidias has returned; and he likes to have no lamp burn later than his own.

That he ends up not lighting a lamp but tangled in the cobwebs is one of the truths of this valuable book.

He lighted the lamp, turned down the wick, and replaced the chimney.

Then, mechanically, his hand went to the lamp on the table back of the couch.