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Meaning lamp meaning

What does lamp mean?
Definitions in simple English

lamp

A lamp is something that makes light (either from electricity or by burning fuel). It's getting dark so I'll switch on the lamp to read by. Oil lamps have wicks that can smoke as they burn.

lamp

an artificial source of visible illumination a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs

Synonyms lamp synonyms

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Topics lamp topics

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Examples lamp examples

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Simple sentences

The lamp is hanging from the ceiling.
I'm going to sit on the bench over there next to the street lamp.
The red lamp lights up in case of danger.
She switched on the lamp because it was dark.
The lamp was swinging back and forth.
There was a lamp hanging above the table.
I must replace that fluorescent lamp.
This means that houses are starting to sink, roads are breaking up and lamp-posts are leaning at crazy angles.
Edison invented the electric lamp.
This fluorescent lamp is starting to flicker. We'll have to replace it.
I bought an old lamp.
I'd like to turn off the reading lamp, is that OK?
Not every lamp is magic.
Loosen the screws and remove the lamp cover.
The lamp is grey.
The lamp on the desk had an out-of-kilter lampshade.
The light of the lamp glimmered in the fog.
The lamp went out, and all was black.
There is a lamp on the ceiling.
The miner asked the lamp spirit for a happy life.
My sister didn't own up to breaking the lamp, instead she made up some story about aliens coming to Earth with the objective of destroying every piece of yellow furniture.
The sun is the torch, the lamp of the universe; if it is situated in the central region it's because this is the best place to illuminate the planets.
Tom unplugged the lamp.
I turned the lamp off and fell asleep.

Movie subtitles

The key in the lamp.
I could just see the lamp by the bed, a tiny spark in the fog.
Look at that gas lamp.
You haven't got a lamp by any chance, have you?
We haven't got a lamp.
They want a lamp.
We've got to get that lamp.
Listen, why should we bother about the lamp?
Yes, but why should we trouble about the lamp if we don't want to?
Anyway, what about this lamp?
Mister Waverton went upstairs with Horace Femm to fetch a lamp.
And you made it into a lamp for my night table.
I remember the lamp, I remember the night table. and I remember the night.
To feed the lamp that is to burn inside.
By the light of the street lamp she looked me up and down with eyes. a smile.
It was so thick, I could just see the lamp by the bed, a tiny spark in the fog.
The Madonna's lamp?
But don't you understand that it's a holy lamp?
Be a lamp in the window for my wandering boy.
Tell my son to take that lamp down.
Did you put that new lamp in Mrs. Willis's room? Yes, Mr. Denny.
Did you get the lamp all right?
The moon lamp, it don't seem to bring it out, does it?
You'll find cigarettes over there under the lamp.
It's like two men looking at the same lamp.
Perhaps the lamp shade is blue.
The key in the lamp, I know you found it.
Come on, get that sun lamp ready.
Here is a lamp.
Pull the lamp down, Earp.
Hold it against the lamp and reflect all the light you can down here.
Take the lamp out on the porch.
JOSS: Thomas, take this lamp. Look in the stables.
There's been a lamp burning in the window for you, honey.
Why can't they put in a bigger lamp?
Oh, there goes the lamp! That dame!

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