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/ɪlˈɛktrɪk læmp/ Listen

Electric lamp

noun

A lamp powered by electricity.

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"Electric lamp" Quotes from Famous Books

... the keyboard became an indistinguishable blur Peters played on untiringly. But at last he rose, closed the piano and turned on an electric lamp that ...

— The Shadow of the East • E. M. Hull

... you know, and the room it happened in—the study—had the brightest light of all. An electric lamp was blazing on the writing-table at the window, and another from a bracket among the books. The window was as wide open as it would go, the lower sash thrown right up; it was just above the scullery window, ...

— The Shadow of the Rope • E. W. Hornung

... passing an alley, at the corner of which an electric lamp shed a path of light across the street, when a revolver shot cracked out, and Ted's hat ...

— Ted Strong's Motor Car • Edward C. Taylor

... through to the museum and switched on a single electric lamp which filled the great room with a ghostly twilight. Piragoff looked about him inquisitively and his eye fell on the long wall-case with the dimly-seen, pallid shapes of the company within it. His face blanched suddenly and ...

— The Uttermost Farthing - A Savant's Vendetta • R. Austin Freeman

... 2. Hold a burned-out electric lamp in a basin of water, break its point off, and see ...

— Common Science • Carleton W. Washburne

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