bulb

Definition

Examples

The maintenance team replaced the broken bulb in the hallway lamp.

Word Family

Synonyms

• lightbulbelectric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity
• lampan artificial source of visible illumination

Collocations

• Easy replace light bulb quickly
  to replace light bulb quickly, meaning to substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected)
• Medium install energy efficient LED bulbs
  to install energy efficient LED bulbs, meaning to set up for use
• Hard speculation in rare flower bulbs
  describing speculation in rare flower bulbs (a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence)
• Very Hard a light bulb goes off suddenly
  referring to a light bulb goes off suddenly