Meaning of "bulb" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BULB

From Latin bulbus, from Greek bolbos onion.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF BULB

bʌlb

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BULB

Bulb is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BULB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bulb

In botany, a bulb is a short stem with fleshy leaves or leaf bases that function as food storage organs during dormancy. A bulb's leaf bases, also known as scales, generally do not support leaves, but contain food reserves to enable the plant to survive adverse conditions. At the center of the bulb is a vegetative growing point or an unexpanded flowering shoot. The base is formed by a stem, and plant growth occurs from this basal plate. Roots emerge from the underside of the base, and new stems and leaves from the upper side. Tunicate bulbs have dry, membranous outer scales that protect the continuous lamina of fleshy scales. Species in the genera Allium, Hippeastrum, Narcissus, and Tulipa all have tunicate bulbs. Non-tunicate bulbs, such as Lilium and Fritillaria species, lack the protective tunic and have looser scales. Other types of storage organs are sometimes referred to as bulbs, although as the term is used in botany, they are not. The technical term for plants that form underground storage organs, including bulbs as well as tubers and corms, is geophyte.

Definition of bulb in the English dictionary

The first definition of bulb in the dictionary is a plant, such as a hyacinth or daffodil, that grows from a bulb. Other definition of bulb is a rounded part of an instrument such as a syringe or thermometer. Bulb is also a rounded expansion of a cylindrical organ or part, such as the medulla oblongata.

SYNONYMS OF «BULB»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «bulb» and belong to the same grammatical category.

corm · light bulb · rhizome · tuber

TRANSLATION OF BULB

Find out the translation of bulb to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of bulb from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bulb» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 球茎
• Translator English - Spanish: bulbo
• English: bulb
• Translator English - Hindi: बल्ब
• Translator English - Arabic: بَصَلَة النَبات
• Translator English - Russian: луковица
• Translator English - Portuguese: bulbo
• Translator English - Bengali: কন্দ
• Translator English - French: bulbe
• Translator English - Malay: Mentol
• Translator English - German: Blumenzwiebel
• Translator English - Japanese: 球根
• Translator English - Korean: 구근
• Translator English - Javanese: Bohlam
• Translator English - Vietnamese: củ
• Translator English - Tamil: பல்பு
• Translator English - Marathi: बल्ब
• Translator English - Turkish: ampul
• Translator English - Italian: bulbo
• Translator English - Polish: cebulka
• Translator English - Ukrainian: цибулина
• Translator English - Romanian: bulb
• Translator English - Greek: βόλβος
• Translator English - Afrikaans: gloeilamp
• Translator English - Swedish: lök
• Translator English - Norwegian: (blomster)løk

10 QUOTES WITH «BULB»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word bulb.

1

Michele Bachmann

The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.

2

Keith Belling

When I went to visit this rice cake plant, I hadn't realized how the rice cakes were made. As soon as I saw the molds of rice and how the heat pops it like popcorn, the light bulb went off. This is popped. This isn't baked or fried.

3

Lawrence Bender

I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in Camp David in 1998 - Madeleine Albright and the Clintons were there, and I just became really inspired by all of these amazing people. I left the screening asking myself what I could do.

4

Jeff Bezos

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

5

Bill Bryson

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.

6

David Chase

Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.'

7

Mitch Daniels

Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.

8

Carrie Fisher

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

9

Elliott Gould

I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.'

10

Shuji Nakamura

The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BULB»

Discover the use of bulb in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bulb and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Light Bulb

Provides an introduction to the history and development of the light bulb and explains how a light bulb works. Includes information on Thomas Edison and other inventors who were influential of the invention of the light bulb.

Marc Tyler Nobleman, 2003

The Light Bulb

Each title in this series looks at one life-changing invention and traces its history from conception, prototypes, and revisions to the modern day.

Chris Oxlade, 2012

The Bulb Expert

The Bulb Expert shows you how to get the very best from your bulbs, both indoors and outdoors.From the ever-popular daffodils, tulips and crocuses to more unusual varieties, it offers tips on: Choosing the right bulbs, with a complete A-Z. ...

D. G. Hessayon, 1995

The History of the Christmas Figural Light Bulb

This book records the history of the Christmas figural light bulb through a study of the construction of surviving examples of figurals and correlation with records and advertisements obtained from various archives.

Robert T. Iwamasa, Robert Iwamasa, Patrick J. Fay, 2006

Bip and the Bulb

While decorating a Christmas tree, Bip drops a bulb which mysteriously comes to life. Through a cat and mouse chase Bip finds that he can find friends in the most unlikely places. .

William A. Morse, 2009

The Bulb Book

John Weathers's 1911 work is detailed discussion of bulbous plants from all over the world.

John Weathers, 2009

The Effect of Bulb Size and Plant Density on Yield and ...

Plant density and bulb size trial was conducted at Ziway in order to identify the optimum agronomic management practices, which contribute to maximized seed production in onion crop both in terms of quantity and quality.

Zerihun Zena, 2013

Imaging of the Temporal Bone

anomalies (high jugular bulb, dehiscent jugular bulb, and jugular bulb diverticulum), aberrant ICA, and the rare persistent stapedial artery.44749 When these vascular anomalies present with PT and a vascular TM, differentiation from  ...

Joel D. Swartz, Laurie A. Loevner, 2009

Temporal Bone Imaging

CHAPTER 18 Dehiscent Jugular Bulb Sachin Gujar Epidemiology In the literature, the reported incidence of a dehiscent jugular bulb varies from 2 to 7%. Clinical Features Dehiscence of the jugular bulb may be seen as a bluish vascular ...

Ellen G. Hoeffner, Suresh Kumar Mukherji, 2011

Engineering weather data

Design values are provided for dry bulb temperature, wet bulb temperature, and humidity ratio at specific percentile frequencies of occurrence. The old EWD summer design values of 1, 2.5, and 5 percent were based on the warmest four ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BULB»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bulb is used in the context of the following news items.

Lessons learnt from the Tulip and Bulb craze

IN THE 1600s, the tulip craze hit Holland. At the peak of the market, a person could trade a single tulip for an entire estate, and, at the bottom, ... «The Star Online, Jul 15»

This NYC Startup has Developed a Connected Light Bulb That Is …

Twist is not only an LED light bulb which saves energy and money but it also has an integrated AirPlay speaker for your sound needs. «AlleyWatch, Jul 15»

This weird light bulb kills all the bacteria in a room

This new type of light bulb has the power to revolutionize the way we deal with germs and bacteria. The Indigo-Clean, made by Kenall ... «Komando, Jul 15»

Ambience Is Everything With the SMFX Smart LED Bulb

Enter the SMFX bulb from SmartFX. These are color-controllable LED bulbs (standard A19 size) that comes in Bluetooth and Wi-fi models that ... «GeekDad, Jul 15»

Digitimes Research: LED bulb prices drop in China market

Average retail price for 7W LED light bulbs (equivalent to 40W incandescent ones) in the China market decreased 12.1% sequentially to ... «Digitimes, Jul 15»

Family violence researchers look for 'light bulb moment' to trigger …

Researchers from the University of Tasmania are looking for a "light bulb moment" in male family violence offenders, where they realise the ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»

Graphene Light Bulb Hitting The UK Market Soon

The first commercially available consumer product using graphene will soon be available in the UK — in the form of a light bulb coated in the ... «CleanTechnica, Jul 15»

Victoriapithecus's Olfactory Bulb was Three Times larger than …

"In living higher primates you find the opposite: the brain is very big, and the olfactory bulb is very small, presumably because as their vision got ... «NY City News, Jul 15»

What's The Best Light Bulb?

Not all light bulbs are alike. Some have smart home features, others are energy sippers. Some can be controlled by Wi-Fi, and others change ... «Lifehacker, Jul 15»

Daffodillion Project Wants to Buy Automatic Bulb Planter for City

The Daffodillion Project, which hopes to plant more than a million daffodils across Newport, wants to donate an auto-bulb-planting machine. «Patch.com, Jul 15»