candle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkændl̩/
rhymes: -ændəl
Forms: form: candles
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.
Senses: examples: text: light a candle
text: blow out the candles on the birthday cake
text: snuff out the candle
glosses: A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.
glosses: The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.
glosses: A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela.
topics: business
forestry
glosses: 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.
examples: text: That vicar used to be an evangelical, but she's crept up the candle in recent years.
text: That’s why self-consciously Anglo-catholic churches which are a mile high up the paschal candle can do reasonably well in the current climate.
ref: 2016 May 2, Kelvin Holdsworth, “The Seven Actual Marks of Mission”, in Thurible.net:
text: For those towards the top of the candle, receiving holy communion is not the same as a celebration of the mass, and mailing the sacred host demonstrates a serious lack of reverence for the sacrament.
ref: 2020 December 18, Robert Paterson, “Consecrated bread should not be posted to communicants”, in Church Times:
text: Clergy higher up the candle had different ideas. From the 1920s, Anglo-Papalism had favoured Roman fashions, and many of the Catholic clergy wore Latin cassocks — with plain or lacy cottas, and birettas — for the Offices; and, eschewing the surplice, an amice and alb — usually with Latin vestments — for the eucharist.
ref: 2022 May 27, Philip Goff, “Platinum Jubilee: The way we wore”, in Church Times:
qualifier: Anglicanism
glosses: Indicates how high or low church something is by height on the candle.
Derived terms: word: Advent candle
word: better to light a candle than to curse the darkness
word: …a single candle…
word: …one candle…
word: …one small candle…
word: burn one's candle at both ends
word: …the candle…
word: bush candle
word: candle auction
taxonomic: Eucalyptus rubida
word: candlebark
taxonomic: Myrica spp.
word: candleberry
word: candlebomb
word: candle bush
word: candle chart
word: candle coal
word: candle dance
word: candle-end
word: candlefish
word: candleflame
word: candleglow
word: candle holder
word: candleholder
word: candle in the wind
word: candleless
word: candle light
word: candlelight
word: candle-light
word: candlelighted
word: candlelighter
word: candlelighting
word: candlelight vigil
word: candlelike
word: candlelit
word: candle magick
word: candlemaker
word: candlemaking
word: Candlemas
taxonomic: Aleurites spp.
word: candlenut
word: candlepin
word: candle power
word: candlepower
word: candler
word: candle salad
word: candle-shade
word: candleshine
word: candle snuffer
word: candlestand
word: candlestick
word: candlestub
word: candle-stub
word: candle tree
word: candlewaster
word: candle-waster
word: candle-wasting
word: candle wax
word: candlewax
word: candlewick
word: candle-wick
word: candle-wood
taxonomic: Fouquieria splendens
word: candlewood
word: candleworks
word: candlewright
word: composite candle
word: corpse candle
word: courting candle
word: cube candle
word: death candle
word: decimal candle
word: desert candle
word: devil's candle
word: dip candle
word: dipped candle
word: ear candle
word: Easter candle
word: electric candle
word: fetch candle
word: foot candle
word: foot-candle
word: grave candle
word: Hefner candle
word: hold a candle
word: hold a candle for
word: ice candle
word: international candle
word: mineral candle
word: new candle
word: not worth the candle
word: Our Lord's candle
word: oxygen candle
word: paschal candle
word: pillar candle
word: Roman candle
word: rush candle
word: sell by the candle
word: standard candle
word: sulfur candle
word: sulphur candle
word: sun candle
word: taper candle
word: tea candle
word: the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long
word: the game is not worth the candle
word: time candle
word: votive candle
word: wax-candle
word: Yablochkov candle
word: yahrzeit candle
Related terms: candela
candelabrum
candid
candidate
chandelier
chandler
chandlery