Bulb Synonyms

bŭlb
Electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. corm
  2. globe
  3. lamp
  4. tuber
  5. knob
  6. nub
  7. plant
  8. globule
  9. ball
  10. nodule
  11. corn
  12. bud
  13. bulbil
  14. light-bulb
  15. tubercle
  16. expansion
  17. lightbulb
  18. garlic
  19. protuberance
  20. medulla-oblongata
  21. head
  22. bunch
  23. swelling
  24. node
  25. bulge
  26. tumor
  27. tube
  28. onion
  29. root
  30. incandescent-lamp
  31. seed
  32. swell
  33. tulip
  34. electric light
  35. medulla
  36. electric light bulb

Words Related to Bulb

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. flower
  2. light
  3. rhizome
  4. runner
  5. bulbs
  6. low-wattage
  7. halogen
  8. flourescent
  9. heater
  10. light-bulbs
  11. lamps
  12. fluorescent

Bulb Sentence Examples

  • When the light bulb was cheaper and better, we ditched kerosene.

  • A single bulb dangled from the ceiling, lighting up a wide area but not the entire space.

  • It consists of a glass bulb, in which there is a loop of fine wire, and to the bulb is attached a U-tube in which there is some liquid.

  • The principle is to have a constriction in the tube above the bulb so proportioned that when the instrument is upright it acts in every way as an ordinary mercurial thermometer, but when it is inverted the thread of mercury breaks at the constriction, and the portion above the point runs down the now reversed tube and remains there as a measure of the temperature at the moment of turning over.

  • Dean handed the phone to his wife as the light went on like in the comic books—a flashing bulb of inspiration.

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