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lamp bulb

n. (context dated technical English) light bulb.

Usage examples of "lamp bulb".

Just before the lamp bulb gave out completely, he saw Mamoulian shake his head.

The room contained little more than a wooden double bed, the statutory mosquito-net, and a bare lamp bulb which glared down on the scene, making the eyes ache.

Moth round the lamp bulb, bumping into it, a powdering of gold dust coming down.

London, not having Pepperidge's number in Lhasa yet, called London and told them the situation and asked for instructions, let them take this one on their back, or I could have told Xingyu to phone his wife or a trusted friend, anyone in Beijing who could have told him there was nothing in fact to worry about, his wife was only under house arrest with no interrogation going on, but it might not have worked all that well because the pretty Xingyu Chen could indeed be in Bambu Qiao under a five-hundred-watt lamp bulb and it would have been someone else who'd answered the telephone, a colonel of the KCCPC who'd been stationed in their apartment to wait for this very call.

Qwilleran removed the butcher block painting and sidelighted the wall with a bare lamp bulb.

Yum Yum leaped lightly into his lap, settling down slowly with a sigh, like a motor vehicle with hydraulic suspension, while Koko arranged himself on a nearby table under the glow of a 75-watt lamp bulb.

The busted lamp bulb had mostly been talking about Bolbods and rumors in Psychlo that they were the next target.

He tested the battery with a flash-lamp bulb mounted on callipers, then slipped it into a recess in the camera.