Bulb vs. Lamp — What's the Difference?

In botany, a bulb is structurally a short stem with fleshy leaves or leaf bases that function as food storage organs during dormancy.

An electric device having a socket for a light bulb, especially a free-standing piece of furniture.

A short, modified, underground stem surrounded by usually fleshy modified leaves that contain stored food for the shoot within

A device that gives off ultraviolet, infrared, or other radiation, used for therapeutic purposes.

A similar underground stem or root, such as a corm, rhizome, or tuber.

A light bulb

A plant that grows from a bulb.

A vessel containing oil or alcohol burned through a wick.

A rounded projection or part

A lantern or fixture that gives off light by burning gas, usually by means of a mantle.

A light bulb.

(Archaic) A celestial body that gives off or reflects light.

(Anatomy) A rounded dilation or expansion of a canal, vessel, or organ.

A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.

(obsolete) An onion.

A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.

The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.

A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.

The medulla oblongata.

To hit, clout, belt, wallop.

Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.

To hunt at night using a lamp; see lamping.

A light bulb (not necessarily bulbous in shape).

To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.

(nautical) A bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.

A thin plate or lamina.

(intransitive) To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

A light-producing vessel, device, instrument or apparatus;

A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid.

Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp.

A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta.

A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity, usually having a glass bulb or tube containing the light-emitting element. Most lamps belong to one of two categories, the Incandescent lamp (See under Incandescent) or the fluorescent lamp. However, see also arc lamp, below.

An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, curved, etc.

A device that emits radiant energy in the form of heat, infrared, or ultraviolet rays; as, a heat lamp.

A light bulb.

An artificial source of visible illumination

To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs

A modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure

Electric lamp consisting of a glass bulb containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated

A rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end);

Lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (`bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata);

A rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ