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lamp

nomverbecourant dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˈlæ̞mp//
  • États-Unis//ˈlæ̝mp//
  • /[ˈleə̯mp]/
  • /[ˈlɛə̯mp]/

A device that generates light, heat, or other electromagnetic radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.

nom

  1. 1

    A device that generates light, heat, or other electromagnetic radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.

  2. 2

    A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.

  3. 3

    A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.

  4. 4

    An eye.

Étymologie

Etymology tree Ancient Greek λᾰ́μπω (lắmpō) Ancient Greek -άζω (-ázō) Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ς (-ắs) Ancient Greek λᾰμπᾰ́ς (lămpắs) Byzantine Greek λαμπάδα (lampáda)bor. Late Latin lampada Old French lampebor. Middle English laumpe English lamp From Middle English laumpe, lampe, from Old French lampe (“lamp, light”), from Latin lampas (“torch, lamp, light”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch, lamp, beacon, light, meteor”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“to shine”). Cognate with Lithuanian lópė (“light”), Welsh llachar (“bright”). Displaced native Old English lēohtfæt (literally “light-vat”).

verbe

  1. 1

    argotTo hit, clout, belt, wallop.

    Another man said, “If someone [a customer]^([sic]) gave me loads of hassle, I'd end up lamping them.” Several of them, in fact, had lost their jobs when they lamped the boss.

    All for the pleasure of lamping a twat in the face.

    [Boris Johnson] was furious, and I think what he really wanted to do was go back to London, and probably lamp Dominic Cummings, but I persuaded him not to do that.

  2. 2

    To hunt at night using a lamp, during which bright lights are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.

  3. 3

    argotTo hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.

    I'm in my Flavmobile cold lamping. I took a G upstate cold camping. To the Poconos, we call a hideaways. A bag of franks and a bag of Frito-Lays.

  4. 4

    To make (something, such as a vase or urn) into a table lamp.

Formes

pluriel
lamps
passé
lamped
participe passé
lamped
participe présent
lamping
3ᵉ personne du singulier
lamps
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).