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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamp/#m1)

2) Old lamps burned oil or gas to make light; most lamps today use electricity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamp/#m2)

3) A heat lamp gives warmth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamp/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamp/#x1)
- Lamps stand every 20 m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamp/#x2)
- A lamp costs 15 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamp/#x3)
- Each room has 2 lamps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamp/#x4)
- I read in bed by the light of my lamp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamp/#x5)
- The lamp lights up when the circuit is closed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamp/#x6)
- Aladdin rubbed the lamp and a genie appeared. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamp/#x7)
- The street lamps come on when it gets dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamp/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/6/)
- [On a walk your dog stops at a lamp post and sniffs for ages while you tug the lead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/0/)
- [On a summer evening in Britain, a tiny shape flits round and round a street lamp.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/315-bats-near-home-pipistrelles-noctules-bat-boxes-and-why-never-to-pick-one-up/0/)
- [Dogs leave wee on lamp posts as messages for other dogs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/6/)
- [The hall is long and low, lit by a row of lamps hanging from the roof, with locked doors all round.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lamp» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamp/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.