lamp
Meanings
noun
- A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
- A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
- A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.
- An eye.
verb
- To hit, clout, belt, wallop.
- 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.
- To make into a table lamp, said of a vase or urn, etc.
name
- Acronym of Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP/Python/Perl: a popular combination of open source software for use as a web server.
noun
- Acronym of loop-mediated isothermal amplification.
- Acronym of lysosome-associated membrane glycoprotein.
name
- A surname.
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Etymology
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”).
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