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Definition: Lampshade |
LampshadeNoun1. A protective ornamental shade used to screen a light bulb from direct view. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lampshade" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references) |
Synonym: LampshadeSynonym: lamp shade (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lampshade |
| English words defined with "lampshade": harp. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lampshade": LAMP-SHADE ASSEMBLER ♦ SUPERVISOR, LAMP SHADES ♦ TAPER, MACHINE ♦ WIRE-FRAME-LAMP-SHADE MAKER. (references) |
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| "Lampshade macro" by Jason Krieger Commentary: "A macro of a lampshade at my grandma's house on christmas." | "Lampshade" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "Closeup of a very ornate lampshade." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Lampshade" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.43% of the time. "Lampshade" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.43% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.57% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "lampshade"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | عاكس النور, عاكس الضوء (reflector), خيال اللمبة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | власат (woolly), абажур (shade), покрит с вълна. (various references) | |
Chamorro | pantaya. (various references) | |
Chinese | 灯罩. (various references) | |
Czech | stínidlo (lamp-shade). (various references) | |
Danish | lampeskaerm. (various references) | |
Dutch | lichtverstrooier, lampekap (lamp-shade). (various references) | |
French | abat-jour (lamp-shade). (various references) | |
German | lampenschirm (shade). (various references) | |
Greek | κν.αμπαζούρ, ανταυγαστήρας (diffuser, light diffuser), αμπαζούρ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחזיק האהיל, מגנור, אהיל (shade, umbrella). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lámpaernyő (shade). (various references) | |
Italian | paralume (shade). (various references) | |
Korean | 전등갓. (various references) | |
Manx | scaalane, scaa lostan. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ampshadelay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | quebra-luz (screen). (various references) | |
Russian | абажур (lamp-shade). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kugla za lampu, abažur, šešir za lampu. (various references) | |
Spanish | pantalla (screen, shade). (various references) | |
Turkish | abajur (globe, lamp-shade). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | абажур. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: headlamps. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-h-l-m-p-s" | |
-1 letter: headlamp. | |
-2 letters: ashamed, lamedhs, lampads, phaseal, plashed, psalmed, sampled, saphead. | |
-3 letters: alephs, almahs, almehs, alphas, damsel, haemal, halmas, hamals, hasped, lamedh, lameds, lampad, lampas, lamped, lapsed, lashed, maples, mashed, medals, padles, palmed, pashed, pedals, phased, plasma, pleads, salpae, sample, shaled, shamed, shaped. | |
-4 letters: aahed, ahead, aleph, almah, almas, almeh, almes, alpha, amahs, ample, ashed. | |
-5 letters: aahs. | |
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