lamp的意思|lamp的解释-里氏词典

lamp [læmp]

n. 灯

vt. 照亮

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[医] 灯

lamp

[ noun ]

an artificial source of visible illumination

<noun.artifact>

a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs

<noun.artifact>

Lamp \Lamp\ (l[a^]mp), n. [OE. (with excrescent p), fr. F. lame,
L. lamina. See {Lamina}.]
A thin plate or lamina. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Lamp \Lamp\ (l[a^]mp), n. [F. lampe, L. lampas, -adis, fr. Gr.
?, ?, torch, fr. ? to give light, to shine. Cf. {Lampad},
{Lantern}.]
1. A light-producing vessel, device, instrument or apparatus;
formerly referring especially to a vessel with a wick used
for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for
the purpose of producing artificial light; also, a similar
device using a gas as the combustible fuel; now referring
mainly to an electric lamp. See sense [3].
[1913 Webster +PJC]

2. Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or
morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the
uses of a lamp.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my
path. --Ps. cxix.
105.

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared. --Cowper.

3. (Elec.) A device or mechanism for producing light by
electricity, usually having a glass bulb or tube
containing the light-emitting element. Most lamps belong
to one of two categories, the {Incandescent lamp} (See
under {Incandescent}) or the {fluorescent lamp}. However,
see also {arc lamp}, below.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

4. A device that emits radiant energy in the form of heat,
infrared, or ultraviolet rays; as, a heat lamp.
[PJC]

{[AE]olipile lamp}, a hollow ball of copper containing
alcohol which is converted into vapor by a lamp beneath,
so as to make a powerful blowpipe flame when the vapor is
ignited. --Weale.

{Arc lamp} (Elec.), a form of lamp in which the voltaic arc
is used as the source of light.

{D["e]bereiner's lamp}, an apparatus for the instantaneous
production of a flame by the spontaneous ignition of a jet
of hydrogen on being led over platinum sponge; -- named
after the German chemist D["o]bereiner, who invented it.
Called also {philosopher's lamp}.

{Flameless lamp}, an aphlogistic lamp.

{Lamp burner}, the part of a lamp where the wick is exposed
and ignited. --Knight.

{Lamp fount}, a reservoir for oil, in a lamp.

{Lamp jack}. See 2d {Jack}, n., 4
(l) &
(n) .

{Lamp shade}, a screen, as of paper, glass, or tin, for
softening or obstructing the light of a lamp.

{Lamp shell} (Zo["o]l.), any brachiopod shell of the genus
{Terebratula} and allied genera. The name refers to the
shape, which is like that of an antique lamp. See
{Terebratula}.

{Safety lamp}, a miner's lamp in which the flame is
surrounded by fine wire gauze, preventing the kindling of
dangerous explosive gases; -- called also, from Sir
Humphry Davy the inventor, {Davy lamp}.

{To smell of the lamp}, to bear marks of great study and
labor, as a literary composition.

In 1967, scientists working on a site near Cavaillon unearthed an oil lamp decorated with a seven-branch candelabra.
The 1902 lamp, known as "Les Coprins" (The Mushrooms), is made of internally decorated and intaglio-carved glass and wrought iron.
Ditto for the antique horse hair clipper, the 1928 Buick radiator cap, the table lamp mounted on a Uruguayan firefighter's helmet, and the tractor tire shoes with the words "love" and "peace" inscribed on the soles.
Toshiba plans to buy a plant from Lampyre S.A., a French lamp maker.
As we bumped past the professor's hut, we saw him standing at the door with an oil lamp.
But two blows recently shook his life: Six weeks ago he was dismissed from the Queens lamp factory where he worked, and at about the same time he broke up with Lydia Feliciano, with whom he had lived for seven or eight years.
Sentries would call out the challenge "Coleman" and wait for the answer "lamp" from approaching soldiers.
"It's like visiting the past," said Victor Kisin, a member of the Soviet parliament, who leaned against a lamp post listening to the discordant song.
His only ally is a hip flask of sloe gin, "the keeper's drink." Picking up the potent, garlicky scent of a fox, Mr. Count pans his lamp and spots a pair of flame-red eyes in a beet field.
The boardroom row at Middlesex's Northwood Golf Club reminds Observer of the old tale of the husband whose wife was always beating him at golf. Having lost his ball in the rough, he trips over a lamp.
The company already has begun takeover negotiations with such diverse small and medium-sized businesses as a lamp company in New Jersey and a paper-folding machine company in Ohio.
The smoking lamp aboard thousands of airline flights soon will be extinguished as the federal smoking ban on domestic flights of two hours or less _ about 80 percent of the total _ takes effect Saturday.
People in rural areas were told that we deserved to have electric lights, and they were going to harness the energy that was necessary to give us electricity so my grandmama didn't have to carry that old coal oil lamp around.
He speculated that the lamp filled the house with carbon monoxide.
At night, the glass-brick columns and white globes atop twisted lamp poles add illumination to the glow of colored lights and the sparkle of fountains.
In doing so he struck his head violently against the rim of the operating lamp, not noticing that it had been placed somewhat lower than usual.
The stamps showed an oil lamp, but the ones bought by the CIA had the body of the lamp upside down.
The stamps showed an oil lamp, but the ones bought by the CIA had the body of the lamp upside down.
"But with computers needing lots of light, a task lamp has become an important part of the common man's work station." Until recently, companies had a comparatively narrow choice.
The mother said she taped together the hands of her son, Nicolas, 7, as if he were praying and put a lamp shade on his head because he "likes to stay up at night," Ms. Livera said.
The men, descendants of Borneo's headhunters, their arms and legs covered in tattoos, sit round a flickering kerosene lamp.
Troughton's job with a car rental agency was not washed away. During the more than a week they were without electricity, a generator powered a television and small lamp, and relatives brought in spaghetti, fried chicken and gas to cook with.
A salesman hawks a lamp that kills bugs.
Fusion Systems Corp. is currently accusing Mitsubishi Electric Corp. of filing hundreds of patents to circumvent a Fusion patent for a high-intensity microwave lamp.
Fedotov also has a pair of handcuffs hanging from his desk lamp as a warning to the pirates.
Like an eternal flame, a lamp atop the bookshelf continuously throws orange light onto a photograph of John Lennon, who was murdered in 1980.
It will keep all of five companies and parts of a sixth, and will sell eight companies; it hasn't made a decision regarding Stiffel Co., a lamp maker.
Perez de Cuellar on Tuesday toured the Lumbini Garden 125 miles southwest of Katmandu and lit a butter-fed lamp at the Maya Devi Temple in front of the ancient sculpture of Lord Buddha and his mother, Maya Devi.
At Jerusalem's Western Wall, commonly known as the Wailing Wall and the last remnant of the rebuilt temple destroyed in 70 A.D., a large oil-burning lamp is lighted each night by leading rabbis and biblical scholars.
General Instrument Corp., New York, said it sold its lamp division to VCH International Ltd., a new company formed by the unit's management, for about $10 million.

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