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💡 Electric Light Bulb
Also known as: Light Bulb, Idea
Unicode: U+1F4A1
Description
A light bulb, as screwed into a lamp to light a room. Depicted as an incandescent bulb with a silver base, often shown with filament and a soft, yellow-white glow. Commonly used to represent ideas (as over a head in a cartoon), thinking, and learning, often as paired with 🤔 Thinking Face or 💭 Thought Balloon. May also represent various senses of light and brightness.
Image Variants
3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0
Keywords
bulbcomicelectricidealight
Shortcodes
| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Emojipedia | :light_bulb: | |
| GitHub | :bulb: | |
| Slack | :bulb: | |
| Discord | :bulb: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> Comic style symbols
Definition:
A light bulb, used to light up a room. Can be used to indicate an idea when placed above a face. Light Bulb was approved as part of Unicode http://emojipedia.org/electric-light-bulb/
Adjectives:
- Utilising electricity.
- Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.
- Using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity
- Related to electricity and electronics.
- Related to electricity (or electronics)
- By means of electricity
- Emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
Verbs:
- To emit light.
- To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.
- Emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light
- To emit beams of light; shine; radiate.
- To give light to (something).
- Make lighter or brighter
- To become light, to brighten.
- To become light.
- To shine light on something.
Nouns:
- An evacuated glass bulb containing a metal filament which is heated by electrical resistance to produce light.
- A filament surrounded by glass which is screwed into the socket of a lamp and which emits light when supplied with current.
- Also known as an incandescent lamp
- Evacuated glass bulb containing a metal filament that produces light.
- Artificial light source powered by electricity.
- A light bulb whose metallic filament is heated by an electric current.
- An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light which produces light with a wire filament heated to a high temperature by an electric current passing through it, until it glows.
- Device that produces light from electricity
- Electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity
- An electric light is a device that produces light by the flow of electric current.
- An idea is a concept or mental impression.
- The content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about