What is the difference between gamp and umbrella?
gamp | umbrella |
(UK, dated) An umbrella.
* 1900 , A. W. Pullin, Talks with old English cricketers (page 169)
* 1983 , (Lawrence Durrell), Sebastian'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 1111:
Cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.
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*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
Generally, anything that provides protection.
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Something that covers a wide range of concepts, purposes, groups, etc.
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The main body of a jellyfish, excluding the tentacles.
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To cover or protect, as if by an umbrella.
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To form the dome shape of an open umbrella.
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To move like a sea jelly.
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Gamp is a see also of umbrella.
As nouns the difference between gamp and umbrella
is that gamp is {{context|uk|dated|lang=en}} an umbrella while umbrella is cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.gamp
English
Noun
(en noun)- It was the last day of the match, and owing to rain it was really unfit to play, but the promoters insisted upon our doing so, to satisfy the spectators, who stood round the ground with their umbrellas up. One gentleman sat with his gamp up on some rails near the railway.
- In his hand he waved – an appropriate symbol of disapprobation – his London gamp meticulously rolled.