lamp

noun

1. A decorative appliance housing a lamp that is usually covered by a shade
2. A celestial body
3. A source of intellectual or spiritual illumination
4. Eye

noun

1. An electric lamp that produces light by an arc made when a current passes between two incandescent electrodes surrounded by gas

noun

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

noun

1. A tall lamp that stands on the floor

noun

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

noun

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

noun

1. Light bulb

noun

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

   "Lava lamps are back—and not just among retro hipsters lounging on shag rugs and waterbeds."

noun

1. An electric lamp in which the discharge takes place through mercury vapor

noun

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