Sentence examples for bulb as a from inspiring English sources

Ancient Egyptians regarded the spherical bulb as a symbol of the universe, and its name is probably derived from the Latin unus, meaning "one".

Still more cram the back, and the last arrivals huddle outside the door, hearing snatches of the Gospel and glimpsing a distant altar, where a wooden crucifix is topped with a neon bulb as a halo.

A lot — because one would steal the bulb as a creative challenge, and the others would keep bumping into one another in interesting but futile attempts to find it.

Alberto Alessi, the company's president, asked three young designers, Gabriele Chiave, Frederic Gooris and Giovanni Alessi Anghini Alberto Alessii's nephew, who spearheaded the project), to reimagine the light bulb as a design object.

The Chinese printers and binders could hardly have done a better job, yet, shorn of elaborately tooled binding and the juicy craft of the manual press, the book is seen, as if under a naked light bulb, as a thing of slender means.

For years, Glenn Beck, among other conservative pundits and personalities, has proclaimed the death of the incandescent light bulb as a casualty of the "nanny state" (never mind that the light bulb legislation is a Bush-era act), and he has been exhorting his listeners to hoard 100-watt light bulbs (along with gold and canned food).

As the team reports in an upcoming issue of Physical Review Letters, further tests showed that treating the entire filament this way made a 60-watt bulb as bright as a 100-watt bulb without increasing its power requirements.

These may form a bulb (as in the onion and lily), a head (cabbage, lettuce), or a rosette (dandelion, plantain).

To quantify the olfactory bulb as well as obtain an estimate of the volume of the whole brain, students download Image J (National Institutes of Health, 1997), a free software package that allows analyses of digital images.

The plantings are as impressive as the statuary, featuring 1,500 rose bushes, 140 flowering cherry trees, 95 pin oak, 59 honey locust, 48 London plane trees and 30,000 daffodil bulbs, as well as a fine group of hawthorn, sweet gum and sycamore trees, not to mention an impressive panorama of the East River.

It's a semi-spherical gadget encased in translucent hard plastic, capable of outputting light of any color just like the primary Hue bulbs, as well as a range of white tones.