"fountain lamp" meaning in English

See fountain lamp in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: fountain lamps [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} fountain lamp (plural fountain lamps)
  1. (historical) A lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-fountain_lamp-en-noun-8q3rZ7ha
  2. A lamp that consists of a large number of fiber optic tubes that mimic the spray of water from a fountain. Categories (topical): Light sources
    Sense id: en-fountain_lamp-en-noun-fmoQMO1W Disambiguation of Light sources: 12 88 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 86 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 23 77 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 19 81

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for fountain lamp meaning in English (2.9kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fountain lamps",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fountain lamp (plural fountain lamps)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1841 May 29, N. N. L., “Description of a plan for maintaining the oil of a lamp at a uniform level.”, in Mechanics' Magazine, number 929, page 408",
          "text": "The oil will be maintained at an uniform level in the burner of this lamp as perfectly as it is in the cocmmon fountain lamp, without being open to the objection against that lamp, of casting a shadow.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1854, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopædia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, page 180",
          "text": "The flame generally used in reflectors is from an Argand fountain lamp, the wick of which is one inch in diameter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1861, Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Condition of Lights, Buoys and Beacons, page 65",
          "text": "but it was asserted by Mr. Faraday that the beneficial effect could not be maintained unless the oil was supplied more copiously than at present by the inefficient fountain lamp universally supplied by the Trinity Board to the 1st order, dioptric lights.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir."
      ],
      "id": "en-fountain_lamp-en-noun-8q3rZ7ha",
      "links": [
        [
          "lamp",
          "lamp"
        ],
        [
          "oil",
          "oil"
        ],
        [
          "elevated",
          "elevated"
        ],
        [
          "reservoir",
          "reservoir"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "14 86",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 77",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 81",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 88",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Light sources",
          "orig": "en:Light sources",
          "parents": [
            "Light",
            "Energy",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Ron Whittaker, Video Field Production, page 349",
          "text": "A familiar application is the fountain lamp that has several hundred fibers spraying out of the top.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lamp that consists of a large number of fiber optic tubes that mimic the spray of water from a fountain."
      ],
      "id": "en-fountain_lamp-en-noun-fmoQMO1W",
      "links": [
        [
          "fiber optic",
          "fiber optic"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fountain lamp"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "en:Light sources"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fountain lamps",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fountain lamp (plural fountain lamps)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1841 May 29, N. N. L., “Description of a plan for maintaining the oil of a lamp at a uniform level.”, in Mechanics' Magazine, number 929, page 408",
          "text": "The oil will be maintained at an uniform level in the burner of this lamp as perfectly as it is in the cocmmon fountain lamp, without being open to the objection against that lamp, of casting a shadow.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1854, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopædia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, page 180",
          "text": "The flame generally used in reflectors is from an Argand fountain lamp, the wick of which is one inch in diameter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1861, Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Condition of Lights, Buoys and Beacons, page 65",
          "text": "but it was asserted by Mr. Faraday that the beneficial effect could not be maintained unless the oil was supplied more copiously than at present by the inefficient fountain lamp universally supplied by the Trinity Board to the 1st order, dioptric lights.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lamp",
          "lamp"
        ],
        [
          "oil",
          "oil"
        ],
        [
          "elevated",
          "elevated"
        ],
        [
          "reservoir",
          "reservoir"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Ron Whittaker, Video Field Production, page 349",
          "text": "A familiar application is the fountain lamp that has several hundred fibers spraying out of the top.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lamp that consists of a large number of fiber optic tubes that mimic the spray of water from a fountain."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fiber optic",
          "fiber optic"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fountain lamp"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.