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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
candlestick
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
silver
▪ A silver candlestick was waiting to be lit and a tiny bowl held red rosebuds.
▪ It stood between two silver candlesticks, prettily wrought in silver.
▪ Well, I did a moonlight flit and stole two silver candlesticks.
▪ Thirty-Seven On the table was a light supper, white wine in a cooler, candles in silver candlesticks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also on the shelves is a pair of antique silver candlesticks bored for conversion to electricity.
▪ He watched, almost mesmerised, as the candlestick was slowly raised and drawn back, ready to strike.
▪ I threw a candlestick at him.
▪ Inside is a vast collection of brass candlesticks.
▪ She said she hit him with a candlestick and kneed him in the groin.
▪ The butchers, bakers and candlestick makers paid their tributes to Mr Powell.
▪ The looking-glass and candlesticks are made of ivory.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Candlestick

Candlestick \Can"dle*stick`\, n. [AS. candel-sticca; candel candle + sticca stick.] An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
candlestick

Old English candelsticca; see candle + stick (n.).

Wiktionary
candlestick

n. a holder with a socket or spike for a candle.

WordNet
candlestick

n. a holder with sockets for candles [syn: candle holder]

Wikipedia
Candlestick

A candlestick, chamberstick, or candelabrum (plural: candelabra) is a device used to hold a candle in place.

Candlestick (disambiguation)

Candlestick might be:

  • A candlestick, a decorative holder for one or more candles
  • A candlestick chart, a type of chart showing price movements of an item (e.g. equities) over a period of time
  • Candlestick Park, a stadium in San Francisco, formerly used for American football and baseball, formerly named 3Com Park and Monster Park
  • A candlestick telephone
  • Candlestick (film), a thriller released in 2015
Candlestick (film)

Candlestick is a 2014 British film starring Andrew Fitch, Isla Ure, Nigel Thomas and Tom Knight. It was directed by Christopher Presswell and was released in the United States on 11 April 2015.

Usage examples of "candlestick".

But this result is unacceptable to Ananke, so the Venice timeline will be split just before I started with the golden candlesticks.

Aldovrandi at Bologna, as Condivi tells us, Michael Angelo, for the sum of thirty ducats, completed the drapery of a San Petronio, begun by Nicolo di Bari on the arca or shrine of San Domenico, and carved the very beautiful and highly finished statuette of an angel holding a candlestick, still to be seen there.

There were ormolu candlesticks, Bessarabian carpets, tale top tables, George III sterling, tea caddies, militia drums, turn-of-the-century jewelry, nineteenth-century mirrors.

They saw her walking up and down, examining the napkin-rings, the candlesticks, the banister rails against the walls, while Binet stroked his beard with satisfaction.

Hollywood, where she traveled to bone up on dance classes and shoot the interior scenes, Audrey and Ferrer rented a small house in Malibu owned by director Anatole Litvak and furnished it with candlesticks, cachepots, silver framed photos, and blue glass vases from Switzerland.

She took the half- burned candles out of the heavy branched candlestick.

And from that day onward he had been looking for a classic Sherlock Holmesian dog-in-the-night sort of lead, something that would scream Colonel Mustard with the candlestick in the library.

When the time came, Stephanie picked up a lighted candlestick in one hand, and went to the bed where the five maidens were sleeping, and she looked at them all, one at a time, to see if they were asleep.

Badger carped and lobbed whatever came to hand at the invader: stools, a book, a candlestick, two redware jugs that slopped red wine in artful spirals.

So, Clemens says, the candlestick with seven branches represented the seven planets, like which the seven branches were arranged and regulated, preserving that musical proportion and system of harmony of which the sun was the centre and connection.

Candlestick represented twelve signs through which seven planets run, 409-m.

Trails of semitranslucent wax had hardened in middrip down the side of the brass candlestick, like stopped time.

They looked like three captains as they stood at the broad plate-glass window of a skybox perched on the rim of Candlestick Park.

A bottle of ink stood by him, as well as a low, cast-iron candlestick with, incidentally, a stearine candle.

His legs obeyed him rather reluctantly, and he could not hold the candlestick without the stearine dripping on to the carpet.