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{
"term": "lamp",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a device that uses electricity, oil or gas to produce light",
"labels": "(British English)(especially North American English)",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a desk/bedside lamp"
},
{
"text": "a street lamp"
},
{
"text": "an oil lamp"
},
{
"text": "a paraffin lamp"
},
{
"text": "a kerosene lamp"
},
{
"text": "a fluorescent/halogen lamp"
},
{
"text": "to switch on/turn off a lamp"
},
{
"text": "An oil lamp burned in the darkness."
},
{
"text": "The study was lit only by a small lamp."
},
{
"text": "He got into bed and switched off the bedside lamp."
},
{
"text": "She could see the rain in the light of the street lamps."
},
{
"text": "There were oil lamps hanging over the veranda."
}
],
"topics": ["Houses and homes"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["bedside", "desk", "floor"],
"verb + lamp": ["light", "switch on", "turn on"],
"lamp + verb": ["illuminate something", "light something", "burn"],
"lamp + noun": ["shade"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "an electrical device that produces rays of heat and that is used for medical or scientific purposes",
"examples": [
{
"text": "an infrared/ultraviolet lamp"
},
{
"text": "The specimen was viewed under an ultraviolet lamp."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/læmp/",
"audio": "la/lamp/lamp__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/læmp/",
"audio": "la/lamp/lamp__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: via Old French from late Latin lampada, from Latin lampas, lampad- ‘torch’, from Greek."
}