lamp
/ˈlæ̞mp//ˈlæ̝mp/
lamp noun: a device that generates light, heat, or other electromagnetic radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
Noun (1)
lamp (plural lamps)
Verb
lamp (third-person singular simple present lamps, present participle lamping, simple past and past participle lamped)
- To hit, clout, belt, wallop.
- Another man said, “If someone [a customer]^([sic]) gave me loads of hassle, I'd end up lamping them.” Several of them, in fact, had lost their jobs when they lamped the boss.2009 May 20, Margaret Wente, “We are witnessing the passing of working-class masculinity”, in The Globe and Mail, archived from the original on 27 May 2009
- All for the pleasure of lamping a twat in the face.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 337
- To hunt at night using a lamp, during which bright lights are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.
- To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.
- 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.1988 June 28, “Cold Lampin' With Flavor” (track 4), in It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, performed by Public Enemy
- To make (something, such as a vase or urn) into a table lamp.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: LAMP
LAMP
- Acronym of Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP/Python/Perl: a popular combination of open source software for use as a web server.
Noun (2) capitalized: LAMP
LAMP (countable and uncountable, plural LAMPs)
- Acronym of loop-mediated isothermal amplification.
- Acronym of lysosome-associated membrane glycoprotein.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Lamp
Lamp (plural Lamps)
- A surname.
lamp meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
lamp in Hindi
- device producing light
- चिराग़ cirāġ, लैंप la͠ip, दीपक dīpak, दिया diyā, दीवट dīvaṭ
- oil device producing light
- बत्ती battī, चिराग़ cirāġ
lamp in Tamil
- விளக்கு
lamp in Marathi
- दिवा, दीप
lamp in Urdu
- device producing light
- چِراغ cirāġ, چَراغ carāġ, دِیپَک dīpak, دِیا diyā, لَیمْپ laimp, مِصْباح misbāh
- oil device producing light
- چِراغ cirāġ, چَراغ carāġ, بَتّی battī
More languagesFewer languages
- lamp in Bengali
- শামা śama, সিরাজ śiraj
- lamp in Telugu
- దీపం, దీపము
- lamp in Malayalam
- വിളക്ക് viḷakkŭ, ദീപം dīpaṁ
- lamp in Kannada
- ದೀಪ
- lamp in Punjabi
- ਦੀਵਾ, ਲੈਂਪ
- lamp in Gujarati
- દીવો dīvo, લેમ્પ lemp
- lamp in Odia
- ଦୀପ, ପ୍ରଦୀପ
- lamp in Sanskrit
- केतु ketu
- lamp in Nepali
- दीप
- lamp in Pashto
- چراغ čerāǧ, لامپه lāmpa
- lamp in Tagalog
- lampara
- lamp in Arabic
- مِصْبَاح miṣbāḥ, لَمْبَة lamba, قِنْدِيل qindīl, سِرَاج sirāj
- lamp in Malay
- lampu, pelita
- lamp in Indonesian
- lampu
- lamp in Thai
- โคมไฟ koom-fai, โคม koom, ประทีป bprà-tîip
- lamp in Vietnamese
- đèn, đèn điện
- lamp in Myanmar
- မီးခွက် mi:hkwak, ဆီမီး hcimi:
- Sindhi
- بَتيِ batī
Examples of lamp in a sentence
- Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out.
- I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.
- A gooseneck lamp can be swiveled around an object, allowing a good examination of all its surfaces.
Synonyms of lamp
Forms of lamp
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | lamps |
| plural | LAMPs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | lamps |
| present participle | lamping |
| past participle | lamped |
| past | lamped |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Lamps |
Origin of lamp
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”).
Words formed from lamp
- accountant's lamp
- Aldis lamp
- arc-lamp
- arc lamp
- Argand lamp
- aroma lamp
- astral lamp
- banker lamp
- banker's lamp
- Betty lamp
- betty-lamp
- blackout lamp
- blast lamp
- blowlamp
- butter lamp
- carbide lamp
- Carcel lamp
- chamber lamp
- coach lamp
- cold-cathode fluorescent lamp
- cold-cathode lamp
- compact fluorescent lamp
- Cooper Hewitt lamp
- courtesy lamp
- Davy lamp
- desk lamp
- desklamp
- Döbereiner's lamp
- fairy lamp
- flame lamp
- flashlamp
- floodlamp
- floor lamp
- fluorescent lamp
- foc's'le lamp
- fo'c's'le lamp
- fog lamp
- foglamp
- forecastle lamp
- fountain lamp
- Fresnel lamp
- frost lamp
- gas lamp
- Geordie lamp
- gig-lamp
- glowlamp
- glow-lamp
- halogen lamp
- handlamp
- hand lamp
- hand-lamp
- headlamp
- heat lamp
- Hefner lamp
- hurricane lamp
- hydrogen lamp
- incandescent lamp
- indicator lamp
- infrared lamp
- lampblack
Phrases with lamp
- lamp oil
- oil lamp
- sun lamp
- lamp bulb
- lamp harp
- lamp oils
- lamp post
- lamp room
- lava lamp
- neon lamp
- rain lamp
- ring lamp
65 more phrasesFewer phrases
- salt lamp
- slit lamp
- stop lamp
- tail lamp
- time lamp
- flood lamp
- lamp along
- lamp bulbs
- lamp flora
- lamp fount
- lamp harps
- lamp posts
- lamp rooms
- lamp shell
- magic lamp
- Morse lamp
- opium lamp
- pilot lamp
- solar lamp
- table lamp
- torch lamp
- xenon lamp
- lamp founts
- lamp shells
- Nernst lamp
- plasma lamp
- pocket lamp
- quartz lamp
- safety lamp
- sodium lamp
- spirit lamp
- street lamp
- Tilley lamp
- Wood's lamp
- naphtha lamp
- reading lamp
- sabbath lamp
- shabbat lamp
- student lamp
- tornado lamp
- oil rain lamp
- platinum lamp
- standard lamp
- magnesium lamp
- neon glow lamp
- Thomson's lamp
- xenon arc lamp
- xenon flash lamp
- metal halide lamp
- metal-halide lamp
- slave of the lamp
- smell of the lamp
- smelt of the lamp
- sodium vapor lamp
- mercury-vapor lamp
- philosopher's lamp
- quartz-iodine lamp
- slaves of the lamp
- smells of the lamp
- sodium vapour lamp
- mercury-vapour lamp
- quartz halogen lamp
- quartz-halogen lamp
- smelled of the lamp
- smelling of the lamp
Words that rhyme with lamp
Questions about lamp
- What does lamp mean?
- Lamp means a device that generates light, heat, or other electromagnetic radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
- What is lamp in Hindi?
- Lamp in Hindi is चिराग़ (cirāġ), लैंप (la͠ip), दीपक (dīpak). See Lamp meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is lamp?
- Lamp can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce lamp?
- Lamp is pronounced /ˈlæ̞mp/ (UK).
- What is the plural of lamp?
- The plural of lamp is lamps.
Words near lamp in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lamp (page history and authors); LAMP (page history and authors); Lamp (page history and authors); lamp (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lamp (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lamp (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lamp (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lamp (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lamp (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lamp (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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