candle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: candles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: candles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: candling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: candled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: candled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.
pos: noun
examples: light a candle
blow out the candles on the birthday cake
snuff out the candle
gloss: The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.
pos: noun
gloss: A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: Indicates how high or low church something is by height on the candle.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: That vicar used to be an evangelical, but she's crept up the candle in recent years.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: To observe the growth of an embryo inside (an egg), using a bright light source.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To dry (greenware) prior to the firing cycle, setting the kiln at 200° Celsius until all water is removed from the greenware.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To check (an item, such as an envelope) by holding it between a light source and the eye.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: candela
candelabrum
candid
candidate
chandelier
chandler
chandlery
Derived words: 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
candleberry
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
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
candle-wood
candlewood
candleworks
candlewright
composite candle
corpse candle
courting 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
sun 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
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