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Candle vs Crayon - What's the difference?

candle | crayon |

As nouns the difference between candle and crayon

is that candle is a light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin while crayon is a stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

As verbs the difference between candle and crayon

is that candle is to observe the growth of an embryo inside an egg, using a bright light source while crayon is to draw with a crayon.

candle

English

(wikipedia candle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.
  • The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.
  • (obsolete) A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela.
  • (forestry) 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.
  • Derived terms

    * ear candle * Roman candle

    Verb

    (candl)
  • (embryology) To observe the growth of an embryo inside an egg, using a bright light source.
  • (pottery) To dry greenware prior to beginning of the firing cycle, setting the kiln at 200° Celsius until all water is removed from the greenware.
  • To check an item (such as an envelope) by holding it between a light source and the eye.
  • crayon

    English

    (wikipedia crayon)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
  • * Dryden
  • Let no day pass over you without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon .
  • (dated) A crayon drawing.
  • * 1885 , Littell's Living Age (volume 167, page 187)
  • But on the wall hung two fine crayons , representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar.
  • (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To draw with a crayon.
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