noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
flash bulb
halogen bulb/lamp/light etc
light bulb
watt bulb
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a 100– watt bulb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bare
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Benny found herself in a rock-walled tunnel, with bare bulbs hanging from the ceiling at regular intervals.
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BLit by a bare fluorescent bulb , the room is filled with flies.
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Out here in the main space, bare bulbs hang from long flexes.
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Illegal light connections have been made, loops of wire with bare bulbs .
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There was no natural light, just a bare bulb .
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The bathroom door swings open and the light is on, the bare bright bulb .
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A bare bulb illuminates the scene.
duodenal
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The two patients in whom the lesion was not reached had ulcers located in the inferior and posterior wall of duodenal bulb .
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In 38 patients endoscopy showed focal abnormalities or signs of diffuse inflammation of the duodenal bulb .
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To determine the extent of gastric metaplasia, multiple biopsy specimens were collected from standardised sites of the duodenal bulb .
electric
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A low-powered electric bulb hung starkly from a wire overhead.
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And flanking the tracks on the far side, a metropolis: Brunswick had electric light bulbs , telephones, radios.
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The demand for electric light bulbs quickly became phenomenal and continued at a very high rate for many years.
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Use long-life electric bulbs in places that do not require a high concentration of light, such as hallways and closets.
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A single electric bulb dangled from the ceiling.
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These gas mantles brought new life to gas lighting just when it was threatened by Swan's electric light bulbs .
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While in his bedroom, he saw the electric bulbs light up.
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They will also dance to an electric light bulb as if it were the sun.
fluorescent
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The Scenes of Crime Officer walked in and the fluorescent bulbs on the ceiling flickered into life.
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A special fluorescent plant bulb will do much toward providing the proper light.
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BLit by a bare fluorescent bulb , the room is filled with flies.
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Torture King places a circular fluorescent light bulb on his head and touches an open electrical circuit.
light
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It is Roy Spring who climbs the spire to replace the red warning light bulbs on the top.
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He could even remember the time he picked out six yellow goslings from a box kept warm by a light bulb .
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Replace light bulbs with low-energy ones.
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The bottles hold light bulbs now.
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They run cool, whereas light bulbs may overheat the water in warm weather.
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There were light bulbs representing the stars and line drawings of the celestial figures.
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The public buildings are floodlit and on all the main roads in and out of Funchal appear strings of white light bulbs .
naked
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Below, a tightly-packed steel chamber, dark but for a few naked bulbs , was filled with squat metal ten-gallon drums.
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A lone naked bulb dangled from the ceiling.
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A very powerful naked light bulb hung from the office ceiling.
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A naked bulb burning in the passageway.
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Just me and the heat and the naked bulb .
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She turned, all flaxen and pink and white, haloed by the naked light bulbs round the mirror.
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A motorbike and sidecar was illuminated by light from the naked bulb inside the kitchen.
single
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A single electric bulb dangled from the ceiling.
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A single bulb hung from the ceiling and some one had adorned it with a preposterously frilly white shade.
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In the half-light from the single landing bulb , he took what seemed to Constance an age to open it.
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Four single bulbs under tin covers lit the entire station, and the air smelled of coal and damp earth.
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The light, a single bulb in an ethnic basket, was suspended from the ceiling and lit just the table.
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A dim light came from the single electric bulb in the ceiling of the room.
small
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Theatre dressing room-style fittings with small golf ball bulbs are especially effective.
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A small light bulb next to the assistant indicates that it has some helpful advice to offer.
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The small bulb inside exploded into life, displaying his clothes.
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The plant is propagated by way of small bulbs which develop on the main bulb from time to time.
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It was illuminated by a small bulb between the two thicknesses of the bulkhead.
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In the centre was a small wizened bulb like a tiny onion.
■ NOUN
halogen
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Another type of light bulb you may come across is the tungsten halogen bulb.
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Some are fitted with halogen bulbs for overall punch, or spots to light specific objects or to highlight.
spring
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Next week we could be warning, exposing, or revealing the truth about anything from holidays to your spring bulbs .
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The ageing orchard is full of spring bulbs and old fruit trees.
watt
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These rocks are covered in algae after being in a small tank under an ordinary 60 watt bulb and not containing fish.
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That table top was screaming with reflected light from a two-hundred-\#watt bulb overhead.
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Is it a 50 watt bulb that a child's been scribbling on with a black felt tip pen?
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It was a sixty watt bulb but after the darkness it made everyone blink.
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If it is much less, try using a 40 watt bulb instead.
■ VERB
buy
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If you wanted to buy an ordinary bulb , you had to ask for it specially.
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Our super-saver offer for this week: you can buy 50 bulbs for only £4.95.
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Bulbs At the last Parish Council meeting it was agreed to buy some bulbs for planting around the centre of the village.
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I bought the bulb like you said.
change
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Another joke: How much does it cost to change a light bulb ?
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Q: How many high-tech artists does it take to change a light bulb ?
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She tries to get me to do things around the house, like changing light bulbs and things like that.
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Yesterday, I had to change a headlamp bulb on my car.
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It just made it hard to change the bulb .
plant
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Members also agreed to ask Darlington Borough Council to plant some more bulbs on the village green.
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If you missed planting your bulbs in the fall, you can still get color by planting them from 4-inch containers.
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If most of the plants have finished, discard them and plant up with spring-flowering bulbs or winter-interest dwarf shrubs.
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Ordinary plant pots can also be planted with bulbs .
use
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Instead they have used block votes like bulbs of garlic - to keep away the vampires of the left.
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You can not use bulbs for a 20-lamp set in a 40-lamp one, or viceversa.
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However, fluorescent light can damage the eye, so if there is a choice of lighting, use ordinary light bulbs .
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On the whole, Chris finds his plants grow better using normal light bulbs , rather than fluorescent tubes.
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If it is much less, try using a 40 watt bulb instead.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An outside cistern could be kept from freezing by hanging a light bulb near it and leaving it on all the time.
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Before buying, check that maintenance and bulb cleaning can be carried out easily and safely.
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Halogen lamps give excellent service, hut the bulbs are fairly expensive to replace.
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I was lying there, thinking that the bulb needed changing, the ceiling could use another coat.
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They stole my narcissus bulbs that I had been so carefully forcing to bloom in January.
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Which leads to the brightest bulb in the Sheffield chandelier of pop, the Longpigs.