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candlestick (1) with a socket

candlestick bar (3)

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canstick (obsolete)

A holder with a socket or spike for a candle.
Synonym: candle holder
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:15:
  Neither doe men light a candle, and put it vnder a bushell: but on a candlesticke, and it giueth light vnto all that are in the house.
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- 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 114:
  Sorcerers and other practitioners of witchcraft used to make a variety of candlestick called the Hand of Glory, chiefly from the flesh of criminals[.]
  Category:English terms with quotations#CANDLESTICK
(gymnastics Category:en:Gymnastics#CANDLESTICK) A gymnastics move in which the legs are pointed vertically upward.
(finance Category:en:Finance#CANDLESTICK) A color-coded bar showing the open and closing prices of a stock on a candlestick chart.
(British Category:British English#CANDLESTICK, military slang Category:English military slang#CANDLESTICK, historical Category:English terms with historical senses#CANDLESTICK) The central ignition tube connecting the fuse and charge of a WWI shrapnel shell, shaped like a candle stick.
- 1930, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades, Grosset & Dunlap, page 20:
  Inside the shrapnel shell was an iron bar with a flattened, broad nose. When the shell burst in the air this iron object fell to the ground and, since it came often from a great height, its fall was dangerous. The men called these candlesticks, which they much resembled.
  Category:English terms with quotations#CANDLESTICK

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Sranan Tongo: kandratiki

Translations

a holder with a socket or spike for a candle — see also candelabrum

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Albanian: shandan (sq) mCategory:Terms with Albanian translations#CANDLESTICK
Arabic: شَمْعَدَان m (šamʕadān)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#CANDLESTICK, قِنْدِيل (ar) m (qindīl)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#CANDLESTICK
Armenian: աշտանակ (hy) (aštanak)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#CANDLESTICK, մոմակալ (hy) (momakal)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#CANDLESTICK
Asturian: candela (ast) fCategory:Terms with Asturian translations#CANDLESTICK
Azerbaijani: şamdanCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#CANDLESTICK
Belarusian: падсве́чнік m (padsvjéčnik)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#CANDLESTICK, кандэля́бр m (kandeljábr)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#CANDLESTICK
Breton: kantolor (br) mCategory:Terms with Breton translations#CANDLESTICK
Bulgarian: све́щник (bg) m (svéštnik)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#CANDLESTICK, свети́лник (bg) m (svetílnik)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#CANDLESTICK, кандела́бър m (kandelábǎr)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#CANDLESTICK
Catalan: candeler mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#CANDLESTICK, portallàntia mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#CANDLESTICK
Chinese:
Cantonese: 燭臺 / 燭台 / 烛台 (zuk¹ toi⁴)Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#CANDLESTICK

Mandarin: 燭臺 / 燭台 / 烛台 (zhútái)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#CANDLESTICK
Cornish: kantolbren mCategory:Terms with Cornish translations#CANDLESTICK, koltrebyn mCategory:Terms with Cornish translations#CANDLESTICK
Corsican: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Corsican#CANDLESTICK
Czech: svícen (cs) mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#CANDLESTICK
Danish: lysestage (da) cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#CANDLESTICK
Dutch: kandelaar (nl) mCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#CANDLESTICK
Erzya: тандал (tandal)Category:Terms with Erzya translations#CANDLESTICK
Esperanto: kandelingo (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#CANDLESTICK
Estonian: küünlajalg (et)Category:Terms with Estonian translations#CANDLESTICK
Finnish: kynttilänjalka (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#CANDLESTICK
French: chandelier (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#CANDLESTICK, bougeoir (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#CANDLESTICK
Friulian: cjandelîr mCategory:Terms with Friulian translations#CANDLESTICK
Galician: candeeiro mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#CANDLESTICK
Georgian: სასანთლე (ka) (sasantle)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#CANDLESTICK, შანდალი (ka) (šandali)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#CANDLESTICK
German: Kerzenhalter (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#CANDLESTICK
Greek: κηροπήγιο (el) n (kiropígio)Category:Terms with Greek translations#CANDLESTICK
Hawaiian: kū ihoihoCategory:Terms with Hawaiian translations#CANDLESTICK
Hebrew: פָּמוֹט (he) m (pamót)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#CANDLESTICK
Hindi: दीपाधार (hi) m (dīpādhār)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#CANDLESTICK, शमादान (hi) m (śamādān)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#CANDLESTICK, चिराग़दान m (cirāġdān)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#CANDLESTICK
Hungarian: gyertyatartó (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#CANDLESTICK
Icelandic: kertastjaki (is) mCategory:Terms with Icelandic translations#CANDLESTICK
Ido: kandeliero (io)Category:Terms with Ido translations#CANDLESTICK
Indonesian: kandil (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#CANDLESTICK
Irish: coinnleoir mCategory:Terms with Irish translations#CANDLESTICK
Italian: candelabro (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#CANDLESTICK, candeliere (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#CANDLESTICK
Japanese: 燭台 (ja) (しょくだい, shokudai)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#CANDLESTICK
Kashubian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Kashubian#CANDLESTICK
Kazakh: шамдал (kk) (şamdal)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#CANDLESTICK
Khmer: ជើងទៀន (cəəng tiən)Category:Terms with Khmer translations#CANDLESTICK
Korean: 촛대 (ko) (chotdae)Category:Terms with Korean translations#CANDLESTICK, 촉대(燭臺) (ko) (chokdae)Category:Terms with Korean translations#CANDLESTICK
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: şamdank (ku)Category:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#CANDLESTICK
Kyrgyz: шамдал (ky) (şamdal)Category:Terms with Kyrgyz translations#CANDLESTICK
Lao: ໂຄມທຽນ (khōm thīan)Category:Terms with Lao translations#CANDLESTICK, ຕີນທຽນ (tīn thīan)Category:Terms with Lao translations#CANDLESTICK
Latin: candēlābrum nCategory:Terms with Latin translations#CANDLESTICK
Latvian: svečturis mCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#CANDLESTICK
Lithuanian: žvakidė fCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#CANDLESTICK
Lombard: candiler (lmo) mCategory:Terms with Lombard translations#CANDLESTICK
Luxembourgish: Käerzestänner mCategory:Terms with Luxembourgish translations#CANDLESTICK
Macedonian: свеќник m (sveḱnik)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#CANDLESTICK
Manx: cainlere mCategory:Terms with Manx translations#CANDLESTICK, kainlere mCategory:Terms with Manx translations#CANDLESTICK, cainleyr mCategory:Terms with Manx translations#CANDLESTICK
Norman: changlyi mCategory:Terms with Norman translations#CANDLESTICK
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lysestake mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#CANDLESTICK

Nynorsk: ljosestake mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#CANDLESTICK, lysestake mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#CANDLESTICK
Occitan: candelièr mCategory:Terms with Occitan translations#CANDLESTICK
Odia: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Odia#CANDLESTICK
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: свѣщьникъ m (svěštĭnikŭ)Category:Terms with Old Church Slavonic translations#CANDLESTICK
Old East Slavic: свѣчьникъ m (svěčĭnikŭ)Category:Terms with Old East Slavic translations#CANDLESTICK
Pannonian Rusyn: швичнїк m (švičnjik)Category:Terms with Pannonian Rusyn translations#CANDLESTICK
Persian: شَمعدان (fa) (šam'dân)Category:Terms with Persian translations#CANDLESTICK
Polabian: svecnĕk mCategory:Terms with Polabian translations#CANDLESTICK
Polish: świecznik (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#CANDLESTICK, lichtarz (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#CANDLESTICK
Old Polish: świecznik mCategory:Terms with Old Polish translations#CANDLESTICK
Portuguese: castiçal (pt) mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#CANDLESTICK, candelabro (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#CANDLESTICK
Romagnol: candlir mCategory:Terms with Romagnol translations#CANDLESTICK
Romanian: sfeșnic (ro) nCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#CANDLESTICK
Russian: подсве́чник (ru) m (podsvéčnik)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CANDLESTICK, канделя́бр (ru) m (kandeljábr)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CANDLESTICK, шанда́л (ru) m (šandál)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CANDLESTICK (dated, heavy, multiple candles)
Scottish Gaelic: coinnlear mCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#CANDLESTICK
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: све̑ћња̄к mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#CANDLESTICK / свије̑ћња̄к mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#CANDLESTICK, чѝра̄к mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#CANDLESTICK

Latin: svȇćnjāk mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#CANDLESTICK / svijȇćnjāk mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#CANDLESTICK, čìrāk (sh) mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#CANDLESTICK
Slovak: svietnik mCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#CANDLESTICK
Slovene: svečnik mCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#CANDLESTICK
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: swěcnik mCategory:Terms with Lower Sorbian translations#CANDLESTICK

Upper Sorbian: swěčnik mCategory:Terms with Upper Sorbian translations#CANDLESTICK
Spanish: candelero (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#CANDLESTICK, cirial mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#CANDLESTICK
Sranan Tongo: kandratikiCategory:Terms with Sranan Tongo translations#CANDLESTICK
Swedish: ljusstake (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#CANDLESTICK
Tagalog: sasanganCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#CANDLESTICK
Tajik: шамъдон (šam'don)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#CANDLESTICK
Tausug: palansukanCategory:Terms with Tausug translations#CANDLESTICK
Thai: เชิงเทียน (chəəng-tiian)Category:Terms with Thai translations#CANDLESTICK
Turkish: şamdan (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#CANDLESTICK, mumluk (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#CANDLESTICK
Ottoman Turkish: شمعدان (şemʼdan)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#CANDLESTICK
Turkmen: şamdanCategory:Terms with Turkmen translations#CANDLESTICK
Ukrainian: свічни́к m (svičnýk)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#CANDLESTICK, канделя́бр (uk) m (kandeljábr)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#CANDLESTICK
Urdu: شَمْع دان m (šam' dān)Category:Urdu terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#CANDLESTICK Category:Terms with Urdu translations#CANDLESTICK, چَراغ دان m (carāġ dān)Category:Urdu terms with redundant transliterations#CANDLESTICK Category:Terms with Urdu translations#CANDLESTICK
Uyghur: شامدان (shamdan)Category:Terms with Uyghur translations#CANDLESTICK
Uzbek: shamdon (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#CANDLESTICK
Vietnamese: đế nếnCategory:Terms with Vietnamese translations#CANDLESTICK, đế đèn cầyCategory:Terms with Vietnamese translations#CANDLESTICK
Volapük: kandelikipian (vo)Category:Terms with Volapük translations#CANDLESTICK
Welsh: canhwyllbren mCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#CANDLESTICK
Yiddish: לײַכטער m (laykhter)Category:Terms with Yiddish translations#CANDLESTICK

Verb

candlestick (third-person singular simple present candlesticks, present participle candlesticking, simple past and past participle candlesticked)Category:English lemmas#CANDLESTICK Category:English verbs#CANDLESTICK Category:English entries with incorrect language header#CANDLESTICK Category:Pages with entries#CANDLESTICK Category:Pages with 1 entry#CANDLESTICK

(of a parachute) To catch on fire, so that the chute resembles a tapered candle with a flame on top.
- 1998, Sandler Stanley, Segregated Skies, page 104:
  Planes fell in flames, planes fell not in flames. Men fell in flames, men fell safely in their parachutes, some candlesticked.
  Category:English terms with quotations#CANDLESTICK
- 2003, Heather Williams, Parachutes, Patriots and Partisans:
  Archie Jack had a second lucky escape in a later attempt when his pilot, nervous of flying over the high mountain ranges, made him jump out at a much greater altitude than was usual. What initially seemed inconsiderate saved Jack's life as his parachute 'candlesticked', ...
  Category:English terms with quotations#CANDLESTICK
- 2013, Rick Atkinson, The Liberation:
  Others with chutes aflame candlesticked into the sea.
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(investing) To analyze stock behavior using Japanese candlestick charts.
- 2003, Cynthia Pirl, Intentional Investing:
  The other book I would recommend is on a technical evaluation method called “candlesticking.”
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- 2014, Sarah Graves, Wreck the Halls:
  “You wouldn't happen to be the B. J. Devine who wrote the Devine candlestick formula?” I blurted, not thinking it could be true. Candlesticking is one of the trickier methods of charting stock.
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To adorn with candlesticks.
- 1962, John Wilson, The Faith of an Artist, page 71:
  The Drama's altar isn't on the stage; it is candlesticked and flowered in the box-office.
  Category:English terms with quotations#CANDLESTICK
- 1988, William Reynolds, Anne Hoffman Cleaver, E. Jeffrey Stann, Voyage to the Southern Ocean, page 2:
  3 When I get my room arranged, it will be carpeted, cushioned, curtained (one set crimson dama[s]k, one white), mirrored, silver candlesticked, etc., etc., etc.
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To form a tall, thin, tapering shape similar to a candle.
- 1957, The American Rose Annual - Volume 42, page 50:
  If cut on the individual stems at three-leaf clusters, the cane will "candlestick."
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- 1976, Journal of the American Podiatry Association:
  Initially, the end of the shaft is ragged, but then begins to taper smoothly, exhibiting the "candlesticking" or "pencilling" referred to in the literature (Fig. 13).
  Category:English terms with quotations#CANDLESTICK
- 1991, Renee Roszel, Valentine's Knight, page 192:
  Caught there on a candlesticked overhang of ice, Quaid turned to peer down at his buddy.
  Category:English terms with quotations#CANDLESTICK

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