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candle
[ kan-dl ]
noun
- a long, usually slender piece of tallow or wax with an embedded wick that is burned to give light.
- something resembling a candle in appearance or use.
- Optics.
- (formerly) candela.
- Also called in·ter·na·tion·al can·dle [in, -ter-nash-, uh, -nl , kan, -dl, -nash-nl]. a unit of luminous intensity, defined as a fraction of the luminous intensity of a group of 45 carbon-filament lamps: used from 1909 to 1948 as the international standard.
- a unit of luminous intensity, equal to the luminous intensity of a wax candle of standard specifications: used prior to 1909 as the international standard. : c., c
verb (used with object)
- to examine (eggs) for freshness, fertility, etc., by holding them up to a bright light.
- to hold (a bottle of wine) in front of a lighted candle while decanting so as to detect sediment and prevent its being poured off with the wine.
candle
/ ˈ°ìæ²Ô»åÉ™±ô /
noun
- a cylindrical piece of wax, tallow, or other fatty substance surrounding a wick, which is burned to produce light
- physics
- another name for candela
- burn the candle at both endsto exhaust oneself, esp by being up late and getting up early to work
- not hold a candle to informal.to be inferior or contemptible in comparison with
your dog doesn't hold a candle to mine
- not worth the candle informal.not worth the price or trouble entailed (esp in the phrase the game's not worth the candle )
verb
- tr to examine (eggs) for freshness or the likelihood of being hatched by viewing them against a bright light
Derived Forms
- ˈ³¦²¹²Ô»å±ô±ð°ù, noun
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- ³¦²¹²Ô·»å±ô±ð°ù noun
- ³Ü²Ô·³¦²¹²Ô·»å±ô±ð»å adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of candle1
Idioms and Phrases
- hold a candle to, to compare favorably with (usually used in the negative):
She's smart, but she can't hold a candle to her sister.
- worth the candle, worth the trouble or effort involved (usually used in the negative):
Trying to win them over to your viewpoint is not worth the candle.
- burn the / one's candle at both ends. burn 1( def 56 ).
More idioms and phrases containing candle
see burn the candle at both ends ; game is not worth the candle ; hold a candle to .Example Sentences
It was seen as a cunning way to save on candles.
Mourners lit candles, hugged and cried, and wrote messages of condolence in the central square.
His widow, Yoko Ono is said to place a lit candle in the window of Lennon's room in the Dakota Building every year on 8 December.
The revelation prompted Franklin to suggest that Parisians could save millions of pounds of candle wax by using daylight hours more efficiently.
Yes, she has time to harvest honey from her hive, bake it into a cake and make beeswax candles.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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