lamp
Forms
- Plural
- lamps
- present (v1)
- lamp
- past (v2)
- lamped
- past participle (v3)
- lamped
- present participle
- lamping
- 3rd person singular
- lamps
Definitions
1.A device that generates light, heat, or other electromagnetic radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
- Above the table is a lamp.
2.A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.
- Above the table is a lamp.
3.An eye.
- Above the table is a lamp.
4.A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
- Above the table is a lamp.
1.To hit, clout, belt, wallop.(slang)
- All for the pleasure of lamping a twat in the face.
- 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.
2.To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.(slang)
- 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.
3.To hunt at night using a lamp, during which bright lights are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.
4.To make (something, such as a vase or urn) into a table lamp.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4541
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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”).