# candle
## 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: /ˈkændəl/, /ˈkændl̩/
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* 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, …a single candle…, …one candle…, …one small candle…
* burn one's candle at both ends, …the candle…
* 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
* candle light, candlelight, candle-light
* candlelighted
* candlelighter
* candlelighting
* candlelight vigil
* candlelike
* candlelit
* candle magick
* candlemaker
* candlemaking
* Candlemas
* candlenut (Aleurites spp.)
* candlepin
* candle power, candlepower
* candler
* candle salad
* candle-shade
* candleshine
* candle snuffer
* candlestand
* candlestick
* candlestub, candle-stub
* candle tree
* candlewaster, candle-waster
* candle-wasting
* candle wax, candlewax
* candlewick, candle-wick
* candlewood (Fouquieria splendens)
* candleworks
* candlewright
* composite candle
* corpse candle
* cube candle
* death candle
* decimal candle
* desert candle
* devil's candle
* dip candle, dipped candle
* ear candle
* Easter candle
* electric candle
* fetch candle
* foot candle, foot-candle
* grave candle
* Hefner candle
* hold a candle, hold a candle for
* ice candle
* international candle
* mineral candle
* new candle
* not worth the candle
* Our Lord's 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

* candela
* candelabrum
* candid
* candidate
* chandelier
* chandler
* chandlery

#### Descendants

* Sranan Tongo: kandra
* → Chichewa: kandulo

#### Translations
### 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.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “candle”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Declan, calend, lanced