Lamp vs Lantern - What's the difference?
lamp | lantern |
A device that generates heat, light or other radiation.
A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.
(slang) to hit, clout, belt, wallop
to hunt at night using a lamp; see lamping
(slang) to hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular
A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
(architecture) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
(architecture) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
(architecture) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light.
(engineering) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel.
(steam engines) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc.; a lantern brass.
(metalworking) A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
(zoology) Aristotle's lantern
As nouns the difference between lamp and lantern
is that lamp is a device that generates heat, light or other radiation while lantern is a case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.As verbs the difference between lamp and lantern
is that lamp is to hit, clout, belt, wallop while lantern is to furnish with a lantern.As an acronym LAMP
is linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP — a popular combination of open source software for use as a web server.lamp
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(wikipedia lamp)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* Davy lamp * table lampVerb
(en verb)Anagrams
*References
* 1000 English basic words ----lantern
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Alternative forms
* (archaic) lanthornNoun
(en noun)- the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral