LAMPS

"LAMPS" is a plural of: lamp.

Date "LAMPS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Literature

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LAMPS

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Crosswords: LAMPS

Without lamps, there would be no light (The Breakfast Club ; writing credit: John Hughes)

Welcome home, son. I broke two lamps and lost all your mail (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Also, you can't shoot a bow and arrow anymore and every time you swing a sword I worry you're gonna break one of our good lamps. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Oh under those white street lamps (All Through The Night; performing artist: Cyndi Lauper)

Don't pamper damp scamp tramps that camp under ramp lamps. (references; author: unknown)

Oil for the Lamps of China (1935)

Ko-Ko Lamps Aladdin (1928)

The Shrine of the Seven Lamps (1923)

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References

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Electric Filament Lamps and Discharge Lamps Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Candle Tungsten Filament Lamps in Oceana (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Electric Filament Lamps and Discharge Lamps in Africa (reference)

• The 2002 World Market Forecasts for Imported Electric Filament Lamps and Discharge Lamps (reference)

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Reflector Tungsten Filament Lamps in Asia (reference)

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Books

• D.I.Y. Girl: The Real Girl's Guide to Making Everything from Lip Gloss to Lamps (reference)

• Play of light : the glass lamps of Frederick Carder (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Electric Filament Lamps and Discharge Lamps in Africa [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• By Dim and Flaring Lamps [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

• Dim the flaring lamps; a novel of the life of John Wilkes Booth (reference)

  (more book examples)

High Tech

• Yamaha EZ20AD 61-Note Portable Keyboard with Guide Lamps and AC Adapter (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Angelo Brothers 70801 Halogen Dimmer for Torchiere Lamps (reference)

• CWR ENVIRONMENTAL C.A.R.E. 2000 HEPA Air Filter with UV Lamps (reference)

• Raco 5625-7 4" Round Cover Combinations for 75-150 Watt Par 38 Lamps (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Signal lamps. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Caption: Book Page: Portrait of Charles Batchelor, the First Photograph Ever Taken by Incandescent Electric Lamps; C. 1879; {15.001/53} (jpg).

New lamps for old?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Radio lights lamps 11,000 miles away--Marconi, aboard yacht at Genoa, starts current for exposition at Sydney, Australia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Alabaster lamps, vestibule, stairs, Chicago & North Western Railway station, Chicago, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress.

Miners turning in lamps and starting home. Caples, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Miners' lamps. Williamson County, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lucile Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service, working on black-out lamps to be used on the gasoline trailers in the Air Force, Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisc. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sterling Advertising Agency, Inc., 70 W. 40th St., New York City. Hurricane lamps. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rembrandt Lamps, business at 206 Lexington Ave., New York City. Entrance. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To live in this mountainous country, and not even to have street lamps! If one goes out, it is dark as a pocket

After early nightfall the yellow lamps would light up, here and there, the squalid quarter of the brothels

In a few tents the light of kerosene lamps shone through the canvas and placed shadows of people hugely on the cloth

In this cave are twenty lamps continually burning, which from the reflection of the adamant cast a strong light into every part

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The most common sources of artificial UVR exposure are various kinds of lamps that emit this form of energy. (references)

UVR lamps can emit UVA, UVB, and/or UVC. Those lamps currently used for recreational tanning emit UVA primarily or exclusively. (references)

Some UVA lamps generate greater than 5 times more UVA per unit time than solar UVA radiation reaching the Earth's surface at the Equator. (references)

Business

Suppliers of highly energy efficient lighting lamps and fixtures should expect increasing demand, especially for control devices such as key tag or infrared room controls that switch off unneeded power. (references)

Economic History

Hungary

In the electrical component segment, capacitors, electrodes, arresters, lamps and plugs make up the largest volume of US exports to Hungary. (references)

Maldives

Plumbing hardware, ceramic fixtures, interior fittings, furniture, lamps, mirrors, and other accessories, mattresses, carpeting/floor coverings, industrial kitchen equipment, and cookware supplies: U.S. products are generally very well regarded. (references)

Brazil

The current electric power shortage will also create new markets for products that increase the energy efficiency, such as thermal break windows, light control devices, solar energy panels, gas boilers and heaters, energy saving light bulbs, emergency lamps, and other energy saving products and devices. (references)

Trade

Mauritius

Imports of the following items are prohibited: ball valve bottles, caps for toy guns, recapped tires, white phosphorous matches, certain firecrackers, kerosene stoves, water scooters, ivory and tortoise shell, underwater fishing guns, candy in the form of cigarettes, toy crash helmets, cigarette papers, used motor vehicle spare parts, electric water heaters with bare elements, portable electric lamps, teething rings, rolling machines (other than industrial-type rolling machines) for cigarette manufacturing, blue asbestos and its products, and items containing chlorofluorocarbons (CFC). A detailed list is available from the Embassy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Deceitful lamps

Lamps

Expressions using "LAMPS": daytime running lamps ♦ grouped lamps. Additional references.

Beginning with "LAMPS": lamps-tail.

Ending with "LAMPS": arc-lamps, gas-lamps, oil-lamps, spot-lamps, street-lamps.

Danish

utilsigtet forstyrrelse af lygter (inadvertently disturbed adjustment of the lamps), sammenbyggede lyssignaler (grouped lamps), sammenbyggede lygter (grouped lamps), afgift af glødelampen og sikringer (tax on incandescent lamps and electric fuses). (various references)

Dutch

onopzettelijk veroorzaakte ontregeling van de lichten (inadvertently disturbed adjustment of the lamps), gegroepeerde lichten (grouped lamps), accijns op gloeilampen en elektrische zekeringen (tax on incandescent lamps and electric fuses). (various references)

French

phare de jour à allumage automatique (daytime running lamps), feux groupés (grouped lamps), déréglage non intentionnel des feux (inadvertently disturbed adjustment of the lamps), accise sur les lampes d'éclairage et les fusibles (tax on incandescent lamps and electric fuses). (various references)

German

Lampen. (various references)

Greek 

ακούσια απορρύθμιση των φανών (inadvertently disturbed adjustment of the lamps), ομαδοποιημένοι φανοί (grouped lamps). (various references)

Hungarian

szemek (glimmers). (various references)

Italian

lampade. (various references)

Pig Latin

ampslay.(various references)

Portuguese

luzes agrupadas (grouped lamps), perturbação não intencional da regulação das luzes (inadvertently disturbed adjustment of the lamps), em aquário lâmpadas fluorescentes operaram num ciclo on-off de 12 horas (in aquaria fluorescent lamps were operated on a l2 hour on-off cycle). (various references)

Russian 

лампа дневного света (florescent lamp, florescent lamps, fluorescent lamp). (various references)

Spanish

luces agrupadas (grouped lamps), variar el ajuste de las luces de forma inadvertida (inadvertently disturbed adjustment of the lamps), en el acuario, las lámparas fluorescentes funcionaron con un ciclo de encendido de 12 horas (in aquaria fluorescent lamps were operated on a l2 hour on-off cycle). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "LAMPS": lampshell, lampshells. (additional references)

Words ending with "LAMPS": bedlamps, clamps, flashlamps, headlamps, streetlamps, sunlamps, taillamps, unclamps. (additional references)

Words containing "LAMPS": eclampsia, eclampsias, preeclampsia, preeclampsias. (additional references)

Misspellings

"LAMPS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ilamp, Illampu, kamps, lammis, Lampa, lampes, lampi, Lampo, lamus, lapz, lemp, Lempa, limpus, llamps, lms, lp, lympus, namps, tlamps. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: palms, plasm, psalm.

-1 letter: alms, alps, amps, lamp, lams, laps, maps, palm, pals, pams, salp, samp, slam, slap, spam.

-2 letters: alp, als, amp, asp, lam, lap, las, map, mas, pal, pam, pas, sal, sap, spa.

-3 letters: al, am, as, la, ma, pa.

+1 letter: ampuls, clamps, lampas, limpas, maples, milpas, plasma, plasms, psalms, sample.

+2 letters: amplest, ampules, aplombs, copalms, empales, impalas, impales, lampads, lampers, lipomas, magilps, misplan, misplay, napalms, pablums, palmers, palmist, plasmas, plasmic, plasmid, plasmin, plasmon, psalmed, psalmic, sampled, sampler, samples, sunlamp.

+3 letters: alpinism, amplexus, ampoules, axoplasm, bedlamps, bioplasm, camphols, clampers, diplomas, empalers, empanels, emplaces, emplanes, ensample, episomal, examples, galumphs, impalers, impanels, impearls, implants, impleads, lampases, lampions, lampoons, lamppost, lampreys, lempiras, malposed, maniples, marplots, maypoles, megalops, misapply, misplace, misplans, misplant, misplays, misplead, mudflaps, neoplasm, oilcamps, omphalos, pabulums, palliums, palmiest, palmists, palmyras, paludism, phallism, plasmids, plasmins, plasmoid, plasmons, plastrum, pleonasm, plumages, polyomas, primulas, prosomal, psalming, psalmist, psalmody, ptyalism, pullmans, rampoles, resample, samplers, sampling, smallpox, sunlamps, tampalas, templars, tramples, unclamps.