(n.) A light-producing vessel, instrument or apparatus; especially, a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial light.
(n.) Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp.
(n.) A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity. See Incandescent lamp, under Incandescent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Absence of linkage in a large group of families shows that lamp genes are not involved in Salla disease.
(2) There was no evidence for ocular trauma, disease, or vascular malformation by slit-lamp examination and gonioscopy.
(3) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
(4) Neovascular responses were evaluated by daily slit-lamp observations and terminal whole-mount and histologic examinations of colloidal carbon-perfused vessels.
(5) Only 5 or 6 patients could be examined per hour with the 60D slit-lamp compared with 30-35 examined by reading retinal photographs.
(6) Compare her with Megan Draper, who is in a minidress too, but one that is several inches shorter and boasts the swirling lava-lamp prints that may have been seen in Vogue at the time.
(7) In the adult, LAMP-immunoreactive membrane patches are present exclusively postsynaptically on neuronal somata and dendrites.
(8) Optical differences between a mercury arc lamp and a laser-illuminated flow cytometer are compared.
(9) The use of a standard 35 mm camera with a spot metering system to take slit-lamp photographs is described.
(10) Microcirculation is clearly visible and can be observed on the conjunctival mucosa by means of any microscope and notably with the slit lamp microscope of ophtalmologists.
(11) LAMP-2 was closely related or identical to the macrophage antigen, MAC-3, as indicated by antibody adsorption and tryptic peptide mapping.
(12) As radiation sources, the following ones have proved useful: high-pressure mercury-vapour lamps, compound radiation systems consisting of high-pressure mercury-vapour burner, series coiled filament and reflector bulbs made of special glass as well as halogen metal-vapour lamps.
(13) In order to pursue this process the slit-lamp examination is recommended as necessary and useful method.
(14) We investigated the possibility of significant corneal trauma (as revealed by slit lamp observation of the fluorescein instilled eye), and massage effects following determination of intraocular pressure with the A. O. Non-Contact tonometer (NCT).
(15) Fluorometric studies have been made with modified slit-lamp microscopes.
(16) Treatment was administered with white light produced by a commercially available halogen-tungsten lamp.
(17) In view of the equivalence of these methods, we would advocate, for reasons of ease of application and cost, the use of a single-color slit-lamp photograph with a 30 degree slit angle for documenting nuclear opacities, and the use of black-and-white retroillumination photography with either the Neitz or Oxford cataract cameras for cortical and posterior subcapsular opacities.
(18) Bacterial corneal ulcer is a potentially blinding emergency which should ideally be treated by an ophthalmologist aided by slit lamp biomicroscopy, microbial stain and cultures, and then selected fortified topical antibiotics.
(19) Concert posters that play music when you touch them have been discussed, while an artist has mixed the paint with oil in a lamp so that when the lamp is tilted, the light dims.
(20) Body temperature was continuously monitored with a rectal thermistor and maintained by adjustment of a heating pad and lamp.
Luminary
Definition:
(n.) Any body that gives light, especially one of the heavenly bodies.
(n.) One who illustrates any subject, or enlightens mankind; as, Newton was a distinguished luminary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Later in the day, both presidents joined Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton at another Democratic luminary’s birthday party.
(2) Granta is rushing out 100,000 extra copies of Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries to capitalise on the first Booker prize win for the publishing house.
(3) Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute – employer of such luminaries as Iraq War stooge Judith Miller, invariably wrong William Kristol and racist hack Charles Murray – was willing to go even further than Marshall in placing the blame for women’s economic travails on alienation from “the family” and then further blaming women’s thoughts for turning women against where they belong.
(4) He has, after all, been such a boxing luminary for 17 years, as loud and bright as an atomic bomb, that only the purblind or the ignorant could have failed to notice the fire in his gloves, the wings on his heels.
(5) A no campaign that emphasised those shared experiences would have struck a deep chord: "This is a very loyal British country in its soul," the SNP luminary said to my astonishment – hastily stressing that Scots' attachment was to an emotional Britishness, not the British state.
(6) The consensus at the RSA conference, where luminaries from the security community are gathered, is that Washington will have a hard time convincing Silicon Valley engineers to invent a technical solution to resolve the standoff between Apple and the FBI .
(7) The Russian tycoon has said he wants to have an editorial board comprised of luminaries such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Lebedev's personal friend, and Tony Blair.
(8) The Webby awards, often described as "the Oscars of the internet", are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-member body of leading web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities.
(9) She does not make things easy for herself: she has organised her 800-page epic according to astrological principles, so that characters are not only associated with signs of the zodiac, or the sun and moon (the "luminaries" of the title), but interact with each other according to the predetermined movement of the heavens, while each of the novel's 12 parts decreases in length over the course of the book to mimic the moon waning through its lunar cycle.
(10) Australian film producer Jan Chapman has said she is “devastated” after her photo was mistakenly used in the Oscars’ In Memoriam montage, which celebrates film industry luminaries who have died in the past year.
(11) The artist turned film-maker, whose only feature film to date is the acclaimed 2009 John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy, reportedly beat out luminaries of the calibre of Joe Wright, Bennett Miller and Gus van Sant.
(12) Eleanor Catton's life swerved off its expected course almost exactly 12 hours before our meeting, the morning after her novel The Luminaries – a virtuoso work set amid the 1860s New Zealand gold rush – was named the winner of the 2013 Man Booker prize .
(13) Eleanor Catton is second favourite to win the Man Booker prize with her 823-page novel, The Luminaries, behind the favourite, Jim Crace.
(14) Criminals learning from NSA Intelligence agency hacking techniques will also be adopted by criminals, according to security luminaries speaking with The Guardian.
(15) But running for president can be tough, as political luminaries such as Hillary Clinton, Al Gore and George HW Bush have found.
(16) It's been suggested The Luminaries might be the Great New Zealand Novel, an idea that makes her uncomfortable.
(17) Cliff Richard was a supporter while other luminaries included Mary Whitehouse, Salvation Army leaders and senior clergy.
(18) It's been suggested recently that we've entered a new era of big books, with some highly praised novels, including The Luminaries and fellow Man Booker nominee The Kills , by Richard House , getting on for as much as 1,000 pages.
(19) She learned from the luminaries of the age: JB Priestley (whom she charges with taking an idea for a play from one she wrote), Bernard Shaw, Sybille Bedford, EM Forster, Elizabeth Bowen, Rebecca West, Ian Fleming, Cyril Connolly, Charlie Chaplin, Stephen Spender, Muriel Spark, who observed an argument at dinner "expressionlessly – like a bird witnessing a road accident".
(20) From these results we speculate that reserve cells located in the intercalated small ducts of Bartholin's gland may have the potential to differentiate into two cell types, myoepithelial and luminary cells, the former forming the pseudocysts.