Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BULB

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Definitions of BULB

1. Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
2. The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
3. (obsolete) An onion.
4. (dated, neuroanatomy) The medulla oblongata.
5. (nautical) A bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
6. (intransitive) To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

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Examples of Using BULB in a Sentence

• The Crookes radiometer (also known as a light mill) consists of an airtight glass bulb containing a partial vacuum, with a set of vanes which are mounted on a spindle inside.
• A lightbulb joke is a joke cycle that asks how many people of a certain group are needed to change, replace, or screw in a light bulb.
• These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world.
• the bulb of a mercury-in-glass thermometer or the pyrometric sensor in an infrared thermometer) in which some change occurs with a change in temperature; and (2) some means of converting this change into a numerical value (e.
• An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a filament that is heated until it glows.
• In botany, a bulb is a short underground stem with fleshy leaves or leaf bases that function as food storage organs during dormancy.
• 1654 — Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, made sealed tubes part filled with alcohol, with a bulb and stem, the first modern-style thermometer, depending on the expansion of a liquid, and independent of air pressure.
• The term is now used for gas discharge lamps, which produce light by an arc between metal electrodes through a gas in a glass bulb.
• In some North American species the base of the bulb develops into rhizomes, on which numerous small bulbs are found.
• On July 24, 1874, Woodward and his partner, Mathew Evans, a hotel keeper, filed a Canadian patent application on an electric light bulb.
• Matthew Evans is one of two Canadians who developed and patented an incandescent light bulb, on July 24, 1874, five years before Thomas Alva Edison's U.
• It is named for the camas root, or Camassia, a lily-like plant with an edible bulb found in the region, that Native Americans and settlers used as a food source.
• In the 20th century, the bulb flower business continued to boom, resulting in the establishment of auction and trading houses, large-scale cultivators and cooperatives.
• In the spring when the bulb flower fields are in bloom, many tourist come to the region to admire them.
• Rijnsburg is located in an area called the "Dune and Bulb district" (Duin- en Bollenstreek) and is one of the locations of the flower auction company Royal FloraHolland.
• After building his own seed and bulb business and starting America's first seed catalog business, Childs bought a great deal of land in the area.
• Braunsdorf invented and manufactured the carbon-arc light bulb in 1873, six years before Thomas Edison's carbonized filament version.
• He is known as an independent early developer of a successful incandescent light bulb, and is the person responsible for developing and supplying the first incandescent lights used to illuminate homes and public buildings, including the Savoy Theatre, London, in 1881.
• Officially incorporated on June 18, 1906, the city is named after the camas lily, a plant with an onion-like bulb prized by Native Americans.
• In lithic analysis (a subdivision of archaeology), an eraillure is a flake removed from a lithic flake's bulb of force, which is a lump left on the ventral surface of a flake after it is detached from a core of tool stone during the process of lithic reduction.
• In lithic analysis, a subdivision of archaeology, a bulb of applied force (also known as a bulb of percussion or simply bulb of force) is a defining characteristic of a lithic flake.
• The shorter, bulbous end of the tube containing the reservoir is called the bulb and the longer, narrower end with the bore is called the stem.
• Mogul lamp (or six way lamp), a floor lamp which has a large center light bulb surrounded by three (or four) smaller bulbs.
• His work on rare-earth elements led to the development of the ferrocerium "flints" used in modern lighters, the gas mantle that brought light to the streets of Europe in the late 19th century, and the metal-filament light bulb.
• "Church of Noise" was released on 2 March 1998 with "Church of Noise" (Messenger Mix), "Suing God", "60 Watt Bulb".

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