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Sconce vs Lamp - What's the difference?

sconce | lamp |

As a noun sconce

is a light fixture or sconce can be a type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford.

As a verb sconce

is (label) to impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct or sconce can be (label) to shut within a sconce; to imprison.

As an acronym lamp is

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sconce

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition ensconce] [http://www.alphadictionary.com/about/aboutus.html The Lexiteria & alphaDictionary Cognate with (abscond).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A light fixture.
  • * Evelyn
    • tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them
  • * Dryden
    • Golden sconces hang not on the walls.
  • A head or a skull.
  • * Shakespeare
    • to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel
  • A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
    • (Johnson)
  • A piece of armour for the head; headpiece; helmet.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I must get a sconce for my head.

    See also

    *

    Verb

    (sconc)
  • (label) to impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct.

    • Etymology 2

    , cognate with German (m).

    Alternative forms

    * skonce

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford.
  • * Milton
    • No sconce or fortress of his raising was ever known either to have been forced, or yielded up, or quitted.
  • (label) A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • one that must raise a sconce by the highway and sell switches
  • The circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted.
  • (label) A squinch.
  • A fragment of a floe of ice.
    • (Kane)
  • A fixed seat or shelf.
    • Derived terms
    * ensconce

    Verb

    (sconc)
  • (label) to shut within a sconce; to imprison.

    • See also

    *

    References

    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

    • Anagrams

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    References

    * 1000 English basic words ----