LAMP
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3.8
- noun
- /læmp/
- Specialized
:
pila LAMP
- On a low table, she lit oil lamps and incense burners.
Examples
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Inside the shed, we filled four lamps with kerosene and lit them.
Fiction book (2000) -
The blue glare of the mercury street lamps diffused by the rain was restrained and opalescent.
Fiction book (1999) -
The hero from your book used that trick with the lamp.
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Light from the street lamp hit the frosted window and broke into thousands of pieces.
Fiction book (1996) -
I am Aladdin and this is my lamp.
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Now, this lamp is indeed not unlike the one used by Aladdin.
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Hey, Larry, can I buy that lava lamp off you?
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Lector set the lamp on a ledge formed by a tree root.
Fiction book (1999) -
Despite being called to work early, the lamps flickered dutifully, as though lighting a path for the snow.
Fiction book (1990) -
The LAMP stack allows developers to create dynamic websites using Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
Surface Forms
Morphology
LAMP = Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP (semi-transparent) = L + A + M + P
Formed as an initialism from specific technical component names; the relation is clear if the learner knows those technical items but not transparent to a general B1 learner.
Etymology
LAMP is a name made from the first letters of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. It also sounds like the common word 'lamp', so a helpful way to remember it is to think of LAMP as a set of software that 'lights' or powers a website or web app.