bulb
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1.3
- noun
- /bʌlb/
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- Make sure to check the wattage before buying a new bulb for your light fixture.
- light bulb
- electric bulb
- incandescent bulb
The flashlights, the light bulbs, they're inside the helmets.
- The flashlights, the light bulbs, they're inside the helmets.
- At that time, there were no light bulbs, no windows, and no Netflix.
- So we need the bulb that you threw away.
- I'm currently attempting to unscrew a screw on a light bulb with some tweezers.
- That's how those little tiny bulbs can take house power and light up.
- Yeah, smart bulbs for the ceiling color changing.
- A fire with light bulb light if cold looking.
- It's really not Between a light bulb and the stuck garbage disposal.
Examples
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Technological improvements such as better light bulbs are part of the solution to the climate problem.
Academic text (2011) -
The only light came from the naked bulbs strung along the structural beams.
Fiction book (1990) -
If you turn on a switch and send a current through a bulb, you get light.
Fiction book (1991) -
Not a telephone or an electric light bulb in the house.
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Ruth wanted to put a shade on the bulb, but I said no.
Fiction book (1991) -
I can see the LED bulb that is blinking.
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The room was dimly lit by the bulbs from the hall outside.
Fiction book (1990) -
Carla pulled a string, snapping on a bare light bulb in a basement room.
Fiction book (1992) -
A bare little porch bulb invites us into our moon-flecked love nest.
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The LED bulb provides bright light while using less energy than traditional bulbs.
Synonyms
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1.0
Something that gives light for a room or table
62
1.8
A glass object that makes light when electricity passes through it
31
1.1
A small glass lamp with a wire inside that makes light when electricity flows
12
4.4
A light bulb that makes light by a hot wire
9
2.0
A light that gets power from wires, often from a bulb
1
4.1
A light bulb that makes light by heating a thin wire inside glass
1
2.1
A glass bulb with a thin wire that makes light when electricity passes through it
1
1.7
A light that uses electricity to shine
Idioms
Compounds
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2.1
A glass bulb with a thin wire that makes light when electricity passes through it
1
2.5
A bulb that uses less electricity than old bulbs, for example LED bulbs
- Specialized
1
7.1
A rounded part at the base of the brain just above the nose that helps you smell
- Specialized
A small rubber device used to suck liquid from or put liquid into the nose and ear
- Specialized
A thin clear layer covering the white of the eye and the front of the eyeball
- Specialized
A blood vessel that supplies blood to the bulb of the penis
- Specialized
A small blood vessel that carries blood to the bulb near the female genital opening
- Specialized
A small tool with a bulb covered in a wet cloth used to measure humidity
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Etymology
Bulb comes from the old Latin word bulbus, which meant 'onion'. People later used the word for electric lights because the glass shape looks like an onion, so a light bulb is a round glass that gives light.