candle
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A candle—a light source
English
Etymology
From Middle English candel, from Old English candel (“candle”), borrowed from Latin candēla (“candle”), from Latin candeō (“be white, bright, shining”, verb); see candid. Doublet of candela and chandelle.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkændəl/, /ˈkændl̩/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ændəl
Noun
candle (plural candles)
- A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.
- light a candle
- blow out the candles on the birthday cake
- snuff out the candle
- The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.
- (obsolete) A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela.
- (forestry) A fast-growing, light-colored, upward-growing shoot on a pine tree in the spring. As growth slows in summer, the shoot darkens and is no longer conspicuous.
Derived terms
- Advent candle
- better to light a candle than to curse the darkness
- better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness
- better to light one candle than to curse the darkness
- better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness
- burn one's candle at both ends
- burn the candle at both ends
- bush candle
- candle auction
- candlebark (Eucalyptus rubida)
- candleberry (Myrica spp,)
- candlebomb
- candle bush
- candle chart
- candle coal
- candle dance
- candle-end
- candlefish
- candleflame
- candleglow
- candle holder
- candleholder
- candle in the wind
- candleless
- candlelight
- candle light
- candle-light
- candlelighted
- candlelighter
- candlelight vigil
- candlelike
- candlelit
- candle magick
- candlemaker
- candlemaking
- Candlemas
- candlenut (Aleurites spp.)
- candlepin
- candlepower
- candle power
- candler
- candle salad
- candle-shade
- candleshine
- candle snuffer
- candlestand
- candlestick
- candle-stub
- candle tree
- candle-waster
- candlewaster
- candle-wasting
- candle wax
- candle-wick
- candlewood (Fouquieria splendens)
- composite candle
- corpse candle
- decimal candle
- desert candle
- devil's candle
- dip candle
- dipped candle
- ear candle
- Easter candle
- electric candle
- fetch candle
- foot-candle
- foot candle
- Hefner candle
- hold a candle
- hold a candle for
- ice candle
- international candle
- mineral candle
- new candle
- not worth the candle
- oxygen candle
- paschal candle
- pillar candle
- Roman candle
- rush candle
- sell by the candle
- standard candle
- sulfur candle
- sulphur candle
- taper candle
- tea candle
- the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long
- the game is not worth the candle
- time candle
- votive candle
- wax-candle
- Yablochkov candle
- yahrzeit candle
Related terms
Descendants
Translations
a light source
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Verb
candle (third-person singular simple present candles, present participle candling, simple past and past participle candled)
- (embryology, transitive) To observe the growth of an embryo inside (an egg), using a bright light source.
- (pottery, transitive) To dry (greenware) prior to the firing cycle, setting the kiln at 200° Celsius until all water is removed from the greenware.
- (transitive) To check (an item, such as an envelope) by holding it between a light source and the eye.
Further reading
- “candle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “candle”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.