ELECTRIC LIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electric light mean? 

• ELECTRIC LIGHT (noun)
  The noun ELECTRIC LIGHT has 1 sense:

1. electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity

  Familiarity information: ELECTRIC LIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTRIC LIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bulb; electric-light bulb; electric light; incandescent lamp; light bulb; lightbulb

Hypernyms ("electric light" is a kind of...):

electric lamp (a lamp powered by electricity)

Meronyms (parts of "electric light"):

filament (a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current)

 Context examples 

He turned on the electric light and tried to read.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Von Bork pushed it back, and, leading the way, he clicked the switch of the electric light.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes held it out on his open palm in the glare of the electric light.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Only the electric light remained, a milestone on the path of the great human adventure.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There was a sharp snick as the electric light was turned on.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"You kin fight in the middle, under the electric light, an' whichever way the bulls come in we kin sneak the other way."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In front of him, in the full glare of the electric light, there stood a tall, slim, dark woman, a veil over her face, a mantle drawn round her chin.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He held the small table sideways to the electric light.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes picked one out, but it was as hard to read by the flickering fire, and he drew out his little dark lantern, for it was too dangerous, with Milverton in the next room, to switch on the electric light.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We pushed aside curtains that were like pavilions and felt over innumerable feet of dark wall for electric light switches—once I tumbled with a sort of splash upon the keys of a ghostly piano.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)