lamp

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of various devices that generate light and often heat, especially.
• noun An electric device having a socket for a light bulb, especially a free-standing piece of furniture.
• noun A device that gives off ultraviolet, infrared, or other radiation, used for therapeutic purposes.
• noun A light bulb.
• noun A vessel containing oil or alcohol burned through a wick.
• noun A lantern or fixture that gives off light by burning gas, usually by means of a mantle.
• noun Archaic A celestial body that gives off or reflects light.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To furnish light to; light.
• To shine.
• noun A vessel, generally portable, for containing an inflammable liquid and a wick so arranged that it lifts the liquid by capillary attraction and when ignited at the end serves as a means of illumination; in recent use also, by extension, a device employed for the same purpose in which the source of illumination is ignited gas or electricity.
• noun Figuratively, something suggesting the light of a lamp, whether in appearance or use; anything possessing or communicating light, real or metaphorical.
• noun plural Same as gig-lamps. See gig-lamp, 3.
• noun (See also carcel-lamp, glow-lamp, jack-lamp, safety-lamp.)
• noun In telephony, an auxiliary signaling-lamp placed in front of the switchboard and serving to indicate to the chief operator delay in responding to any one of a group of call-signals.
• noun A lamp having a spiral of platinum placed above the wick. The vapor from the alcohol (ethyl or methyl) drawn up by the wick unites with the air through the agency of the platinum, which is thus made to glow.
• To go or run quickly; scamper.
• noun A thin plate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete A thin plate or lamina.
• noun A light-producing vessel, device, instrument or apparatus
• noun Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp.
• noun (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.
• noun A device that emits radiant energy in the form of heat, infrared, or ultraviolet rays.
• noun 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.
• noun (Elec.) a form of lamp in which the voltaic arc is used as the source of light.
• noun 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 Döbereiner, who invented it. Called also philosopher's lamp.
• noun an aphlogistic lamp.
• noun the part of a lamp where the wick is exposed and ignited.
• noun a reservoir for oil, in a lamp.
• noun See 2d Jack, n., 4 (l) & (n).
• noun a screen, as of paper, glass, or tin, for softening or obstructing the light of a lamp.
• noun (Zoöl.) 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.
• noun 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.
• noun to bear marks of great study and labor, as a literary composition.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A device that generates heat, light or other radiation
• noun A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination
• noun A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.
• verb slang to hit, clout, belt, wallop
• verb to hunt at night using a lamp; see lamping
• verb slang to hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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