lamp

«lamp» in Mova's school dictionary: a thing that gives light, often standing on a table, a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (lamp, lamps)

meaning for a pupil

1) A lamp is a thing that gives light, often standing on a table, a desk or along a street. tree →

2) Old lamps burned oil or gas to make light; most lamps today use electricity. tree →

3) A heat lamp gives warmth. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school maths: things counted, often placed at equal gaps along a street (lamps = gaps + 1 on a line); also bought at a price. In science: a lamp in a circuit lights when the circuit is complete; light sources. In stories: Aladdin's magic lamp. Phrases: «turn on the lamp», «street lamp», «desk lamp», «lamp post».

examples

• There are 9 lamps along the street. tree →
• Lamps stand every 20 m. tree →
• A lamp costs 15 dollars. tree →
• Each room has 2 lamps. tree →
• I read in bed by the light of my lamp. tree →
• The lamp lights up when the circuit is closed. tree →
• Aladdin rubbed the lamp and a genie appeared. tree →
• The street lamps come on when it gets dark. tree →

note

Countable: «a lamp». «Lamp» is the whole thing; «bulb» is the glass part that glows. Maths: counted things; on a line lamps = gaps + 1. Trap: forgetting the lamp at the start. Safety: do not touch a hot bulb.

In the corpora

• Three lamps that are each on or off make 2 × 2 × 2 = 8 different signals; four lamps make 16.
• On a walk your dog stops at a lamp post and sniffs for ages while you tug the lead.
• On a summer evening in Britain, a tiny shape flits round and round a street lamp.
• Dogs leave wee on lamp posts as messages for other dogs.
• The hall is long and low, lit by a row of lamps hanging from the roof, with locked doors all round.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «lamp» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.