Chandelier vs Chandelierlike - What's the difference?
chandelier | chandelierlike |
A branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
* 1929 , , Chapter VII, Section vi
(auction) A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction. Also called a wall.
* 2007 , Frank Pope, "Dragon Sea: a true tale of treasure, archeology, and greed off the coast of Vietnam", Harcourt Books, p. 306.
(obsolete, military) A portable frame used to support temporary wooden fences.
* 1747 , , The Scots Book , volume 9, p. 37. [http://books.google.com/books?id=FVwAAAAAYAAJ&dq=chandelier%20is%20a%20wooden%20frame&pg=PA37#v=onepage&q=chandelier%20is%20a%20wooden%20frame&f=false]
* 1994 , Todd A. Shallat, Structures in the Stream: Water, Science, and the Rise of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers , University of Texas Press, p. 32.
Resembling or characteristic of a chandelier.
* 1988 , James Houston, Whiteout?
As a noun chandelier
is a branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling.As an adjective chandelierlike is
resembling or characteristic of a chandelier.chandelier
English
(wikipedia chandelier)Noun
(en noun)- She opened the drawing-room door in trepidation. Would she find Esther drowned with her head in the goldfish bowl, or hanged from the chandelier by her stay-lace?
- A mysterious phone bidder was grabbing the pieces that no one else wanted—Mensun suspected this was the auction house "bidding against the chandelier," protecting itself against selling too low.
- Chandelier . A wooden frame, whereon are laid fascines or faggots, to cover the workmen in making approaches.
- Europeans solved this problem by building a temporary fence with tightly bound sticks ("fascines") stacked into wooden frames ("chandeliers ").
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Then a clutch of long sharp icicles broke from a chandelierlike mass above his head and fell, shattering around the piano like glass swords.