plural of lamp
"The streetlights flickered out, leaving us to navigate by the soft glow of our porch lamps."
In plain English: Lamps are electric lights that you plug into an outlet to make a room brighter.
"She turned off the lamps to dim the lights in the living room."
Usage: Use lamps to refer to two or more devices that emit light, such as table lights or streetlights. Do not use this word when referring to a single unit, for which you should say lamp.
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lamp
"She lamps the room every evening before dinner."
In plain English: To lamp someone means to criticize or mock them harshly, often by making fun of their appearance or mistakes.
"The sun began to lamp up the dusty attic floor before noon."
Usage: Do not use "lamps" as a verb to mean shining light; instead, conjugate the base verb "lamp" only when referring to striking or hitting something with a heavy object. In everyday conversation, people almost always intend to say "lights" or "shine" when they want to describe producing illumination.
plural of Lamp
"We hung three vintage lamps on the porch to welcome guests in the evening."
Lamps comes from the Old English leamp, derived from Proto-Germanic \laumaz*. Its original meaning was simply light or illumination, which evolved to refer specifically to an object that produces such light.