Candlestick

Quick meaning: Candlestick is a noun meaning A holder with a socket or spike for a candle.

Meaning

A holder with a socket or spike for a candle.

More Meanings

1. (gymnastics) A gymnastics move in which the legs are pointed vertically upward.
2. (finance) A color-coded bar showing the open and closing prices of a stock on a candlestick chart.
3. (of a parachute) To catch on fire, so that the chute resembles a tapered candle with a flame on top.
4. (investing) To analyze stock behavior using Japanese candlestick charts.
5. To adorn with candlesticks.
6. To form a tall, thin, tapering shape similar to a candle.
7. (British, military slang, historical) The central ignition tube connecting the fuse and charge of a WWI shrapnel shell, shaped like a candle stick.

Example Sentences

Others with chutes aflame candlesticked into the sea.

The other book I would recommend is on a technical evaluation method called “candlesticking.”

Planes fell in flames, planes fell not in flames. Men fell in flames, men fell safely in their parachutes, some candlesticked.

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.

Word Forms

• candlesticks
• canstick
• candlesticking
• candlesticked

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chandelier, candlestand, socket, candleholder, sconce, canstick.

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