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US
/ˈbəɫb/
]
[ UK /bˈʌlb/ ]
[ UK /bˈʌlb/ ]
NOUN
- a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure
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a rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end)
the bulb of a syringe - electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity
- a rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ
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lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (`bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata)
the medulla oblongata is the most vital part of the brain because it contains centers controlling breathing and heart functioning - anything with a round shape resembling a teardrop
How To Use bulb In A Sentence
- When your bulbs arrive, or you buy them from the garden center, gather everyone together, hand out garden tools and start digging.
- Oh, it's fine for her to waste food on a level I can only describe as sinful but God forbid we should be wasting light bulbs or toilet paper.
- The undulating holloway, which has itself sunk through the steady erosion of cartwheels and hooves up to fifteen feet beneath the hillside, translates you from the present into an earlier era when John Nash carved out his woodcuts in English boxwood at the kitchen table under a single lamp-bulb and cultivated the half-wild garden. Wildwood
- The light, a single bulb in an ethnic basket, was suspended from the ceiling and lit just the table.
- The difference in turn-on time would generally not be noticeable for standard household incandescent bulbs, since they turn on very quickly.
- Another type of light bulb you may come across is the tungsten halogen bulb.
- It was sleek and aerodynamic, shone in his room like a light bulb.
- To determine the extent of gastric metaplasia, multiple biopsy specimens were collected from standardised sites of the duodenal bulb.
- When equipped with the full unit, a patient sees a display of phosphenes, which looks, as the Wall Street Journal put it, like ‘the light-bulb array of a stadium scoreboard,’ and which approximates - very roughly - the outlines of objects.
- Also called ionized (or charged) gas, plasma can be as common as in fluorescent light bulbs or exotic in the extreme, as a thermonuclear explosion. India eNews
