Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Illuminated by a lamp.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lighted by a lamp
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Examples
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The vessel was a double-decker, its passenger windows lamplit, its beam big enough to withstand ten-foot seas.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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The vessel was a double-decker, its passenger windows lamplit, its beam big enough to withstand ten-foot seas.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Even in the lamplit and moonlit dark, Eugene recognised that potato face and shock of straw-coloured hair.
Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010
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His primitive lamplit microscope, with which he could barely peer into the interior of cells, had no power to reveal the mechanism of inheritance.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The vessel was a double-decker, its passenger windows lamplit, its beam big enough to withstand ten-foot seas.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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His primitive lamplit microscope, with which he could barely peer into the interior of cells, had no power to reveal the mechanism of inheritance.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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I thought back to the night before, walking through the absolutely still streets, past the lamplit rooms and flickering televisions in the houses of the seers.
Following the dust tracks: Touring Florida through the eyes of Zora Neale Hurston Rebecca Bengal 2010
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“Can I go down on you?” he asks her because sitting on the bed Indian-style he can see, even in the lamplit dusk, he can see and smell her glistening.
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Cancer virus hunters needed to return to their lamplit virus again, but this time with new questions: What was the viral gene that had unleashed pathological mitosis in cells?
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Cancer virus hunters needed to return to their lamplit virus again, but this time with new questions: What was the viral gene that had unleashed pathological mitosis in cells?
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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