Crossword clues for lightbulb
lightbulb
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 light-emitting component of an electric lamp, flashlight, lighting fixture, etc.
Syn: light bulb, bulb, incandescent lamp, electric light, electric-light bulb.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of light bulb English)
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]
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Some had treads missing from their 168 tracks, limbs had been replaced by rusty prosthetics, bellybuttons by eggcups, eyeballs by lightbulbs.
Some had treads missing from their tracks, limbs had been replaced by rusty prosthetics, bellybuttons by eggcups, eyeballs by lightbulbs.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.