lightbulb
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1.1
- noun
- /ˈlaɪtˌbʌlb/
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bombilla
- So I sat under the electric lightbulb and did some sewing on a new raffia basket.
- fluorescent lightbulbs
- change a lightbulb
- incandescent lightbulb
Examples
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Pitch black, then, CLICK! as a bare lightbulb is switched on.
Fiction book (2002) -
To save energy, she replaced all the old lightbulbs in her house with new LED ones.
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Fix the lightbulb at night.
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The next day, my mother stopped by, and Pepere asked her to help change a lightbulb.
Fiction book (2001) -
Well, I was standing on the ladder fixing a lightbulb that was flickering and driving me crazy.
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But of course lightbulbs also emit plenty of visible light, or we wouldn't be buying them.
Academic text (2003) -
Lewis Latimer was a black man who helped Thomas Edison invent the lightbulb.
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He had to climb up a ladder to change the broken lightbulb in the ceiling fixture.
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When the lightbulb burnt out, she quickly bought a new one at the store.
Synonyms
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1.3
A glass part of a lamp that makes light when electricity flows through it
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1.8
A glass object that makes light when electricity passes through it
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4.4
A light bulb that makes light by a hot wire
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4.1
A light bulb that makes light by heating a thin wire inside glass
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2.1
A glass bulb with a thin wire that makes light when electricity passes through it
How Bright
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lightbulb is simply light + bulb, and bulb brings to mind a round plant part like a flower bulb or an onion. So a lightbulb is the round glass object that makes 'light', which is why the word means the electric lamp you put in a lamp or the ceiling.