Lamp vs Lights - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between lamp and lights

is that lamp is a device that generates heat, light or other radiation while lights is plural of lang=en.

is that lamp is to hit, clout, belt, wallop while lights is third-person singular of light.

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(wikipedia lamp)

(en noun)

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.

* Davy lamp * table lamp

(en verb)

(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

(head)

The lungs, now only of an animal (being lighter than adjacent parts).

*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.3:

*:But forst him gape and gaspe, with dread aghast, / As if his lungs and lites were nigh asunder brast.

(head)

(light)

* slight