Definition of Lamp

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Definition of Lamp

Lamp

A thin plate or lamina.

A light-producing vessel, instrument or apparatus; especially, a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial light.

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

A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity. See Incandescent lamp, under Incandescent.

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Lamp Quotations

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
George Carlin

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
Patrick Henry

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.
David Ogilvy

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Henry Ward Beecher

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
George MacDonald

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
Ovid

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Lamp Translations

lamp in Afrikaans is lamp
lamp in Danish is lampe
lamp in Dutch is lamp
lamp in Finnish is lamppu
lamp in German is Lampe
lamp in Italian is lampada, fanalino
lamp in Latin is luminarium, lumen, lucerna, lucinaria
lamp in Norwegian is lampe
lamp in Swedish is lykta, lampa

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