a street-lamp

  • 51Dream Street (film) — Dream Street Directed by D. W. Griffith Written by Thomas Burke(short story) Roy Sinclair (aka D.W. Griffith)(scenario) …

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  • 52sodium-vapour lamp — /soʊdiəm ˈveɪpə læmp/ (say sohdeeuhm vaypuh lamp) noun an electric lamp in which sodium vapour is activated by current passing between two electrodes, producing a yellow, glareless light which is widely used for street lighting. Also, sodium… …

  • 53sodium-vapor lamp — noun lamp in which an electric current passed through a tube of sodium vapor makes a yellow light; used is street lighting • Syn: ↑sodium vapour lamp • Hypernyms: ↑lamp …

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  • 54sodium-vapour lamp — noun lamp in which an electric current passed through a tube of sodium vapor makes a yellow light; used is street lighting • Syn: ↑sodium vapor lamp • Hypernyms: ↑lamp …

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  • 55Easy Street (film) — Infobox Film name = Easy Street caption = director = Charles Chaplin Edward Brewer (technical director) producer = Henry P. Caulfield writer = Charles Chaplin Vincent Bryan Maverick Terrell starring = Charles Chaplin Edna Purviance Eric Campbell… …

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  • 56sodium-vapour lamp — ▪ instrument       electric discharge lamp using ionized sodium, used for street lighting and other illumination. A low pressure sodium vapour lamp consists of a glass shell with metal electrodes, filled with neon gas and a little sodium. When… …

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  • 57sodium-vapor lamp — [sō′dē əm vā′pər] n. a discharge lamp used for street lighting, fitted with two electrodes and filled with neon and sodium vapor, giving off a soft, yellow light …

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  • 58red lamp —    a brothel    The traditional sign displayed outside. Less often as red light:     There was a Red Lamp at Bethune situated about five yards off the main street. (F. Richards, 1933)     Why don t we put red lights outside the hostels too? (J.… …

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  • 59High-Pressure Sodium Lamp —   A type of High Intensity Discharge (HID) lamp that uses sodium under high pressure as the primary light producing element. These high efficiency lights produce a golden white color and are used for interior industrial applications, such as in… …

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  • 60mer|cu|ry-va|por lamp — «MUR kyuh ree VAY puhr», an apparatus consisting essentially of a glass or quartz discharge tube containing mercury vapor, which produces a bright greenish yellow illumination when an electric current is passed through it, used for street… …

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