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Chandelier vs Lantern - What's the difference?

chandelier | lantern |

As nouns the difference between chandelier and lantern

is that chandelier is a branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling while lantern is a case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.

As a verb lantern is

to furnish with a lantern.

chandelier

English

(wikipedia chandelier)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
  • * 1929 , , Chapter VII, Section vi
    • 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?
  • (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.
    • 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.
  • (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]
    • Chandelier . A wooden frame, whereon are laid fascines or faggots, to cover the workmen in making approaches.
  • * 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.
    • Europeans solved this problem by building a temporary fence with tightly bound sticks ("fascines") stacked into wooden frames ("chandeliers ").

    Related terms

    * bidding against the chandelier * candela * candelabrum * candid * candidate * candle * candlepower * candlestick * chandelier bidding * chandler * chandlery * electrolier

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    lantern

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic) lanthorn

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
  • (architecture) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
  • (architecture) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
  • (architecture) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light.
    • the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral
  • (engineering) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel.
  • (steam engines) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc.; a lantern brass.
  • (metalworking) A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
  • (zoology) Aristotle's lantern

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To furnish with a lantern.
    • to lantern a lighthouse

    See also

    * lamp * torch