bulb
灯泡,灯管
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- : Botany. a usually subterranean and often globular bud having fleshy leaves emergent at the top and a stem reduced to a flat disk, rooting from the underside, as in the onion and lily.a plant growing from such a bud.
- : any round, enlarged part, especially at the end of a cylindrical object: the bulb of a thermometer.
- : Electricity. the glass housing, in which a partial vacuum has been established, that contains the filament of an incandescent electric lamp.an incandescent or fluorescent electric lamp.
- : Anatomy. any of various small, bulb-shaped structures or protuberances: olfactory bulb; bulb of urethra.
- : medulla oblongata.
- : Building Trades. a rounded thickening at the toe of an angle iron or tee.
- : Nautical. a cylindrical or spherical prominence at the forefoot of certain vessels.
- : Photography. a shutter setting in which the shutter remains open as long as the shutter release is depressed. Symbol: B
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Just one thing, however, if you live in the South, you might have to buy your bulbs and store them for about six weeks in your refrigerator, where they can be kept cold, but not freezing.
The company is well known for its wide range of electronics offerings that include personal audio devices, smart bulbs, and electric toothbrushes.
Scratch the bulb, or bruise the green tops, and you should immediately smell the familiar oniony odor.
Winslow thinks of leeks as somewhere between a scallion and a bulb onion.
Richard said he wanted to kiss Susan good night when he walked her to the door, but her mother had put a blindingly bright bulb in the porch light.
One day, he took a monk with a cleanly shaven head and had him walk around a light bulb to demonstrate this theory.
The trade in empty bottles should be as eyebrow-raising as the old Soviet dud-bulb biz.
His bright idea turned out to be the incandescent light bulb, which he invented in 1880.
Death waits for these things as a cement floor waits for a dropping light bulb.
In 2007, the Bush administration signed a measure that would finally bring the light bulb into the 21st century.
Bang went the fragile bulb, as it splintered into a thousand atoms, and the mercury shot in sparkling globules over the table.
Should it fail, the fluid can generally be pumped out by alternate compression of the tube and the .