" lamp "

[Noun]  | "lamp" | \ ˈlamp \

1: any of various devices for producing light or sometimes heat: such as

2: a vessel with a wick for burning an inflammable liquid (such as oil) to produce light

3: a glass bulb or tube that emits light produced by electricity (such as an incandescent light bulb or fluorescent lamp)

Origin: 13th century ;

 Middle English, from Anglo-French lampe, from Latin lampas, from Greek, from lampein to shine; akin to Hittite lap- to burn;

[Noun]  | "arc lamp" 

1: an electric lamp that produces light by an arc made when a current passes between two incandescent electrodes surrounded by gas —called also arc light

Origin: 1879 ;

[Noun]  | "discharge lamp" 

1: an electric lamp in which an enclosed gas or vapor glows or causes a phosphor coating on the lamp's inner surface to glow

Origin: 1893 ;

[Noun]  | "floor lamp" 

1: a tall lamp that stands on the floor

Origin: 1892 ;

[Noun]  | "fluorescent lamp" 

1: a usually tubular electric lamp having a coating of fluorescent material on its inner surface and containing mercury vapor whose bombardment by electrons from the cathode provides ultraviolet light which causes the material to emit visible light

Origin: 1896 ;

[Noun]  | "glow lamp" 

1: a gas-discharge electric lamp in which most of the light proceeds from the glow of the gas near the cathode

Origin: 1884 ;

[Noun]  | "incandescent lamp" 

1: light bulb

Origin: 1881 ;

[Noun]  | "lava lamp" 

1: a decorative lamp constructed of a transparent glass container filled with liquid and wax that is heated by an incandescent bulb which melts the wax and causes it to form random moving shapes within the liquid

Origin: 1965 ;

[Noun]  | "mercury-vapor lamp" 

1: an electric lamp in which the discharge takes place through mercury vapor —called also mercury lamp

Origin: 1904 ;

[Noun]  | "quartz-iodine lamp" 

1: a light bulb consisting of a quartz bulb and a tungsten filament with the bulb containing iodine which reacts with the vaporized tungsten to prevent excessive blackening of the bulb

Origin: circa 1964 ;

[Noun]  | "lamp" 

[Noun]  | "arc lamp" 

[Noun]  | "fluorescent lamp" 

[Noun]  | "incandescent lamp" 

[Noun]  | "sun lamp" 

[Noun]  | "light bulb"