Turkish bath steam bath vapor bath vapour bath | you sweat in a steam room before getting a rubdown and cold shower |
Cooper's hawk blue darter Accipiter cooperii | bluish-grey North American hawk having a darting flight |
brachiopod lamp shell lampshell | marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food, found worldwide |
Aladdin's lamp | (Arabian Nights) a magical lamp from which Aladdin summoned a genie |
anchor light riding light riding lamp | a light in the rigging of a ship that is riding at anchor |
arc lamp arc light | a lamp that produces light when electric current flows across the gap between two electrodes |
carbon arc lamp carbon arc | has carbon electrodes |
clinical thermometer mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer | a mercury thermometer designed to measure the temperature of the human body, graduated to cover a range a few degrees on either side of the normal body temperature |
Cooper Union Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | university founded in by Peter Cooper to offer free courses in the arts and sciences |
discharge lamp | a lamp that generates light by a discharge between two electrodes in a gas |
electric-discharge lamp gas-discharge lamp | an electric lamp in which the light comes from an electric discharge between two electrodes in a glass tube |
electric lamp | a lamp powered by electricity |
flash photoflash flash lamp flashgun flashbulb flash bulb | a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph |
flood floodlight flood lamp photoflood | light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam, used in photography |
floor lamp | a lamp that stands on the floor |
fluorescent lamp | lamp consisting of a tube coated on the inside with a fluorescent material, mercury vapor in the tube emits ultraviolet radiation that is converted to visible radiation by the fluorescent material |
gas lamp | a lamp that burns illuminating gas |
glow lamp | a gas-discharge tube with a hot cathode, used in stroboscopes |
heat lamp infrared lamp | electric heater consisting of a high-power incandescent lamp that emits infrared radiation, the bathroom could be warmed by an infrared lamp |
hurricane lamp hurricane lantern tornado lantern storm lantern storm lamp | an oil lamp with a glass chimney and perforated metal lid to protect the flame from high winds, candlestick with a glass chimney |
lamp | an artificial source of visible illumination |
lamp | a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs |
lamp chimney chimney | a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp |
lamp house lamphouse lamp housing | housing that holds a lamp (as in a movie projector) |
lampshade lamp shade | a protective ornamental shade used to screen a light bulb from direct view |
light bulb lightbulb bulb incandescent lamp electric light electric-light bulb | electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity |
mercury barometer | barometer that shows pressure by the height of a column of mercury |
mercury cell | a primary cell consisting of a zinc anode and a cathode of mercury oxide and an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide |
mercury thermometer mercury-in-glass thermometer | thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit, mercury expands with a rise in temperature causing a thin thread of mercury to rise in the tube |
mercury-vapor lamp | ultraviolet lamp that emits a strong bluish light (rich in ultraviolet radiation) as electric current passes through mercury vapor |
neon lamp neon induction lamp neon tube | a lamp consisting of a small gas-discharge tube containing neon at low pressure, luminescence is produced by the action of currents at high frequencies that are wrapped a few turns around the tube |
oil lamp kerosene lamp kerosine lamp | a lamp that burns oil (as kerosine) for light |
pilot light pilot lamp indicator lamp | indicator consisting of a light to indicate whether power is on or a motor is in operation |
quartz lamp | a mercury-vapor lamp that is enclosed in a quartz container instead of a glass container |
reading lamp | a lamp that provides light for reading |
safety lamp Davy lamp | an oil lamp that will not ignite flammable gases (methane) |
slit lamp | (ophthalmology) a lamp that emits a narrow but intense beam of light that enables an ophthalmologist, using a microscope, to view the retina and optic nerve |
sodium-vapor lamp sodium-vapour lamp | lamp in which an electric current passed through a tube of sodium vapor makes a yellow light, used is street lighting |
spirit lamp | a lamp that burns a volatile liquid fuel such as alcohol |
steam bath steam room vapor bath vapour bath | a room that can be filled with steam in which people bathe, `vapour bath' is a British term |
streetlight street lamp | a lamp supported on a lamppost, for illuminating a street |
student lamp | a reading lamp with a flexible neck, used on a desk |
sunlamp sun lamp sunray lamp sunay lamp | a mercury-vapor lamp used in medical or cosmetic treatments |
table lamp | a lamp that sits on a table |
taillight tail lamp rear light rear lamp | lamp (usually red) mounted at the rear of a motor vehicle |
ultraviolet lamp ultraviolet source | any source of illumination that emits ultraviolet radiation |
vapor lock vapour lock | a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internalombustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor) |
vapor density vapour density | the density of a gas relative to the density of hydrogen |
mercury | temperature measured by a mercury thermometer, the mercury was falling rapidly |
Mercury program | a program of rocket-powered flights undertaken by US between and with the goal of putting a man in orbit around the earth, under the Mercury program each flight had one astronaut |