candle

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   stick of wax with a wick in the middle

   I lit the candle with a match.

2. 2
   noun

   A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.

   light a candle

3. 3
   noun

   Indicates how high or low church something is by height on the candle.

   That vicar used to be an evangelical, but she's crept up the candle in recent years.

4. 4
   noun

   the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

5. 5
   verb

   to examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light

6. 6
   noun

   The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.

7. 7
   noun

   A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela.

8. 8
   noun

   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.

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.