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Meanings of lightbulb in English
A filament surrounded by glass which is screwed into the socket of a lamp and which emits light when supplied with current.
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Examples for "bulb"
Examples for "bulb"
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Please use this number for any future references to this light-bulb issue.
2
Ten years ago, who would have thought of an electric light bulb?
3
It is, therefore, important to find a bulb that meets your needs.
4
It's pretty difficult to find that one bulb that's causing the problem.
5
In theory, these units should use less power than a standard bulb.
1
Henry removed the electric bulb, and restored it to its place outside.
2
On the end of the wire was an electric bulb, lighted.
3
Someone had thoughtfully wrapped a bit of tissue paper round the electric bulb.
4
People flocked to it like moths to a bare electric bulb.
5
The first of these is the arc light and the second the electric bulb.
1
Ten years ago, who would have thought of an electric light bulb?
2
Ten years ago, who would have thought of an electric light blub?
3
The quick snap of the electric light declared nobody in the dining-room.
4
The blood on the livid face glistened wet in the electric light.
5
And there was a new electric light bulb in the central fixture.
1
Siegmund stooped, and from among the water's combings picked up an electric-light bulb.
2
With a sudden start he looked at the electric-light bulb in the bridge lamp beside him.
3
It glowed as though illumined by some inward fire (doubtless a concealed electric-light bulb), and the shifting play of iridescent color was exquisitely beautiful.
4
The whites had found spare electric-light bulbs valuable currency in dealing with the redmen.
5
The big moths wheeling around electric-light bulbs aren't clothes moths.
1
An incandescent lamp marked 16-candle-power was set in each of the light-boxes.
2
It is extremely improbable that Henry Goebel constructed a practical incandescent lamp in 1854.
3
The incandescent lamp travels about as fast as the prospector.
4
What type of incandescent lamp is used in the reflector?
5
Kennedy pointed to the incandescent lamp in the ceiling.
1
Two excellent examples of a blackbody: the Sun and an incandescent light bulb filament.
2
Here is a picture looking through a diffraction grating at an incandescent light bulb.
3
The incandescent light bulb has become synonymous with Thomas Edison.
4
To be sure, Edison invented the incandescent light bulb.
5
But after the Edison's improvement of the incandescent light bulb, power was suddenly much more useful.
1
Ten years ago, who would have thought of an electric light bulb?
2
How many Republicans will it take to change this particular light bulb?
3
You might even be able to induce a genuine light bulb moment.
4
How many home educators does it take to change a light bulb?
5
And there was a new electric light bulb in the central fixture.
Usage of lightbulb in English
1
But each time I solved the problem, the lightbulb would go off.
2
One day Marx asked Gould to change a lightbulb in his bedroom.
3
The human brain's power consumption resembles that of a 20-watt incandescent lightbulb.
4
A red lightbulb illuminated the whole area over the dented rear entrance.
5
He was planted several feet away near a lightbulb display, observing me.
6
At the last step, I reached out and found the lightbulb chain.
7
A computer tube can hold a lot more gasoline than a lightbulb.
8
There was one unadorned lightbulb in the middle of the featureless ceiling.
9
Each aisle was illuminated at thirty-foot intervals by a bare electric lightbulb.
10
There were no appliances, and the lightbulb hung bare from the ceiling.
11
How many surrealistic painters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
12
A single low-wattage lightbulb shed a dim yellow glow over the room.
13
You put a lightbulb cap on the grenade, stick the filaments inside.
14
It was like the old cartoon lightbulb of someone getting an idea.
15
Jones shifted his focus to the lightbulb that dangled above his head.
16
When I was a kid, a solar-powered lightbulb was a standing joke.
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