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Lamp-socket insert
Answer for the clue "Lamp-socket insert ", 9 letters:
lightbulb
Alternative clues for the word lightbulb
- Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan
- Idea, in the comics
- Glower, being the subject of jokes?
- Bright idea symbol
- Electric lamp consisting of a glass bulb containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated
- Item suggested visually by the black squares in this puzzle's grid
- Symbol for an idea
Word definitions for lightbulb in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
lightbulb \lightbulb\, light bulb \light bulb\n. A glass bulb with metallic contacts on the outside connected to a wire filament (usually tungsten) inside that emits light when heated by passage of electricity through the filament; -- used as the replaceable ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. electric lamp consisting of a glass bulb containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated [syn: light bulb , bulb , incandescent lamp , electric light , electric-light bulb ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of light bulb English)
Usage examples of lightbulb.
It was in their lightbulbs, their cars and their weapons of destruction.
Hatching from their black eggs, they detected the dry, indoor air and the false sun of the lightbulbs, and began to shrivel up.
Little by little, the restaurants on the block would suffer, too, their awnings getting ripped, the big yellow lightbulbs on the Laikon marquee burning out, the Greek bakery on the corner being taken over by South Yemenis from Dearborn.
Some had treads missing from their 168 tracks, limbs had been replaced by rusty prosthetics, bellybuttons by eggcups, eyeballs by lightbulbs.
Some had treads missing from their tracks, limbs had been replaced by rusty prosthetics, bellybuttons by eggcups, eyeballs by lightbulbs.
Lightbulbs, brooms, doorknobs, boat winches, birdcages, enameled pots, fans, axes, knives, brushes of all kinds, paints and varnishes and oils, spools of string, cheese graters, meat grinders, jelly glasses, toilet plungers, ice skates (ice skates!
In lieu of cash, they offered me stock in the lightbulb company, stock that could mature, with a stock split or two they said, into $10, $12 million -- could be worth that within two years, they said, so good were these new lightbulbs.
He returned to his room and took an omegendorph and one of the new pandorphs Spencer had given him, and then he went out into the quadrant’s central atrium and wandered among the plants, all skinny storm spawn, troping toward the lightbulbs running overhead.