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Lamp

//læmp// name, noun, verb, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 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. 2
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
  2. 2
    Acronym of loop-mediated isothermal amplification. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    an artificial source of visible illumination wordnet
  4. 4
    A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
  5. 5
    Acronym of lysosome-associated membrane glycoprotein. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs wordnet
  2. 7
    A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.
Verb
  1. 1
    To hit, clout, belt, wallop. UK, slang

    "All for the pleasure of lamping a twat in the face."

  2. 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. 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. 4
    To make into a table lamp, said of a vase or urn, etc.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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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