Lantern vs Toplight - What's the difference?
lantern | toplight |
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.
(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
As nouns the difference between lantern and toplight
is that lantern is a case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings while toplight is (nautical) a lantern or light on the top of a vessel.As a verb lantern
is to furnish with a lantern.lantern
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Alternative forms
* (archaic) lanthornNoun
(en noun)- the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral
