lamp

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Related topics: Furniture, Hospital

ldoce_193_flamp /læmp/ S3 noun [countableC]

DHFan object that produces light by using electricity, oil, or gas 灯

table/desk/bedside lamp 台灯/书桌灯/床头灯

oil/electric/fluorescent lamp 油灯/电灯/荧光灯

→ fog lamp , headlamp , hurricane lamp , safety lamp , standard lamp →5 See picture of uplighter 上射灯, chandelier 枝形吊灯, light bulb 灯泡 ... →4 See picture of 见图 lamp

2 MHa piece of electrical equipment used to provide a special kind of heat, especially as a medical treatment 〔尤指治疗用的〕发热灯；照射器

infra-red/ultraviolet lamp 红外线/紫外线灯

→ sunlamp , blowlamp

n COLLOCATIONS

verbs

switch/turn on a lamp

Dorothy switched on the desk lamp.

switch/turn off a lamp

He switched off the lamp beside the bed.

light a lamp

Elizabeth lit the lamps and started rebuilding the fire.

a lamp burns

A silver lamp burned on the altar.

ADJECTIVES/NOUN + lamp

a table/desk/bedside lamp

He read by the light of the bedside lamp.

an oil/kerosene/paraffin lamp (=lamps that you light with a flame)

The large room was lit by a paraffin lamp on a table.

a street lamp

Harry stopped under a street lamp.

a hurricane lamp (=a lamp with a strong glass cover, which protects the light from the wind)

Examples from the Corpus

lamp• Shamrock cup and saucer by Beleek Bestlite 31170 solid brass lamp base with dark green enamelled shade.• a desk lamp• So it seems the future of compact fluorescent lamps is secure.• an infrared lamp• The stars showed the way, but faintly, like lamps along a road for ghosts.• These new lamps last five times longer and need less than 20 percent of the power used by an ordinary light bulb.• It glowed with the warm, welcoming light of oil lamps.• I said goodbye to her under a street lamp.• They're better than lamp posts and that, cos trees grow out of the ground, so they're extra special like.• Rachaela put her foot on the red Persian carpet and started up, out of the scarlet ambience of the lamp.

oil/electric/fluorescent lamp• There was a hot fire in the potbellied stove and an oil lamp burning high on a table in the corner.• The front door was open, as we approached, a light came on, probably from an oil lamp.• The range used for cooking also provides heat: an oil lamp provides light.• So it seems the future of compact fluorescent lamps is secure.• Mrs McGill fries bread for breakfast, takes Chas to bed, cooks supper, lights oil lamp and nurses Nana.• As the merchants lit oil lamps, their familiar booths turned magical.• It glowed with the warm, welcoming light of oil lamps.• Several of the traders had lit small oil lamps which they hung in front of their stalls.

Origin lamp

(1100-1200) Old French lampe, from Latin lampas, from Greek, from lampein “to shine”

lamp noun →n COLLOCATIONS1

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