lamp
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lamp1
▶noun
- 1 an electric, oil, or gas device for giving light.
- 2 an electrical device producing ultraviolet or other radiation.
- 1 supply with lamps; illuminate.
- 2 (usu. as noun lamping) hunt at night for rabbits using lamps.
– derivatives
lamper noun,
lampless adjective.
lamper noun,
lampless adjective.
– origin ME: via OFr. from late L. lampada, from L. lampas, lampad- ‘torch’, from Gk.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lamp2
▶verb chiefly N. English hit or beat (someone).
'lamp' also found in these Oxford entries:
Aldis lamp
- anglepoise
- arc lamp
- brachiopod
- bracket
- bullseye
- burner
- carbon
- chafing dish
- chimney
- crucible
- Davy lamp
- diya
- flash lamp
- floor lamp
- font
- genie
- hurricane lamp
- klieg light
- lamp chimney
- lamplight
- lamp post
- lampshade
- lamp shell
- lantern
- lava lamp
- light bulb
- lychnis
- match
- night light
- oil lamp
- safety lamp
- sidelamp
- sodium-vapour lamp
- spirit lamp
- spotlight
- standard lamp
- storm lantern
- street light
- strip light
- strobe
- sunlamp
- tail light
- tilley lamp
- torch
- unshaded
- uplighter
- wick
