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• lamp — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ bedside, desk, floor, overhead (AmE), reading, standard (BrE), standing (AmE), table ▪ electric …   Collocations dictionary

• Lamp box — Lamp boxes are the smallest of the post boxes used by the Royal Mail in the UK, by its counterparts in the Commonwealth of Nations and also by An Post in Ireland. Their name derives from the fact that they were designed to be affixed to lamp… …   Wikipedia

• Lamp and Lampadarii — • There is very little evidence that any strictly liturgical use was made of lamps in the early centuries of Christianity. The fact that many of the services took place at night, and that after the lapse of a generation or two the meetings of the …   Catholic encyclopedia

• lamp — [ læmp ] noun count ** 1. ) an electric light, especially a small one, that stands on a table or desk: Use a desk lamp when you study. a ) an oil or gas light, especially a small one, that you can carry: an oil lamp 2. ) a piece of equipment that …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• lamp — lampless, adj. /lamp/, n. 1. any of various devices furnishing artificial light, as by electricity or gas. Cf. fluorescent lamp, incandescent lamp. 2. a container for an inflammable liquid, as oil, which is burned at a wick as a means of… …   Universalium

• lamp */*/ — UK [læmp] / US noun [countable] Word forms lamp : singular lamp plural lamps 1) a) an electric light, especially a small one, that stands on a table or desk Use a desk lamp when you study. b) an oil or gas light, especially a small one, that you… …   English dictionary

• lamp shells — ▪ animal Introduction also called  brachiopod,         any member of the phylum Brachiopoda, a group of bottom dwelling marine invertebrates. They are covered by two valves, or shells; one valve covers the dorsal, or top, side; the other covers… …   Universalium

• Plasma lamp — Plasma lamps (also variously plasma globes, balls, domes, spheres, or orbs) are novelty items which were most popular in the 1980s. The plasma lamp was invented by Nikola Tesla after his experimentation with high frequency currents in an… …   Wikipedia

• table lamp — noun a lamp that sits on a table • Hypernyms: ↑lamp * * * ˈtable lamp f54 [table lamp table lamps] noun a small lamp that you can put on a table, etc …   Useful english dictionary

• spirit lamp — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms spirit lamp : singular spirit lamp plural spirit lamps British a small lamp that burns alcohol to produce light …   English dictionary

• head|lamp — «HEHD LAMP», noun. 1. a headlight on an automobile, locomotive, or other vehicle: »The headlamps of a police van lit an open door, and figures moved to and fro carrying packages (Graham Greene). 2. a small lamp worn on the forehead or the front… …   Useful english dictionary