Lamp
name, noun, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
- 2 Acronym of loop-mediated isothermal amplification. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
- 3 an artificial source of visible illumination wordnet
- 4 A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
- 5 Acronym of lysosome-associated membrane glycoprotein. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
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- 6 a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs wordnet
- 7 A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.
- 1 To hit, clout, belt, wallop. UK, slang
"All for the pleasure of lamping a twat in the face."
- 2 To hunt at night using a lamp, during which bright lights are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture. Ireland, UK
- 3 To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular. US, slang
"I'm in my Flavmobile cold lamping. I took a G upstate cold camping. To the Poconos, we call a hideaways. A bag of franks and a bag of Frito-Lays."
- 4 To make into a table lamp, said of a vase or urn, etc.
- 1 Acronym of Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP/Python/Perl: a popular combination of open source software for use as a web server. Internet, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 2 A surname.
Example
More examples"I'm going to sit on the bench over there next to the street lamp."
Etymology
From Middle English laumpe, lampe, from Old French lampe (“lamp, light”), from Latin lampas (“torch, lamp, light”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch, lamp, beacon, light, meteor”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“to shine”). Cognate with Lithuanian lópė (“light”), Welsh llachar (“bright”). Displaced native Old English lēohtfæt (literally “light-vat”).
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