{
    "term": "lamp",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a device that uses electricity, oil or gas to produce light",
            "labels": "(British English)(especially North American English)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a desk/bedside lamp"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a street lamp"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an oil lamp"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a paraffin lamp"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a kerosene lamp"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a fluorescent/halogen lamp"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to switch on/turn off a lamp"
                },
                {
                    "text": "An oil lamp burned in the darkness."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The study was lit only by a small lamp."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He got into bed and switched off the bedside lamp."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She could see the rain in the light of the street lamps."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were oil lamps hanging over the veranda."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Houses and homes"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["bedside", "desk", "floor"],
                "verb + lamp": ["light", "switch on", "turn on"],
                "lamp + verb": ["illuminate something", "light something", "burn"],
                "lamp + noun": ["shade"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an electrical device that produces rays of heat and that is used for medical or scientific purposes",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an infrared/ultraviolet lamp"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The specimen was viewed under an ultraviolet lamp."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/læmp/",
                "audio": "la/lamp/lamp__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/læmp/",
                "audio": "la/lamp/lamp__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: via Old French from late Latin lampada, from Latin lampas, lampad- ‘torch’, from Greek."
}