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Lamp vs Samp - What's the difference?

lamp | samp |

As nouns the difference between lamp and samp

is that lamp is a device that generates heat, light or other radiation while samp is an article of food consisting of coarse ground maize, or a porridge made from it.

As a verb lamp

is to hit, clout, belt, wallop.

As an acronym LAMP

is linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP — a popular combination of open source software for use as a web server.

lamp

English

(wikipedia lamp)

Noun

(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.

    • Derived terms

    * Davy lamp * table lamp

    Verb

    (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

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    References

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    samp

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia samp) (en noun)
  • An article of food consisting of coarse ground maize, or a porridge made from it.
  • * 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, page 44:
    • We remained in class until 12.45, and then had a lunch of samp , sour milk and beans, seldom meat.

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