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Torchlight vs Lantern - What's the difference?

torchlight | lantern |

As nouns the difference between torchlight and lantern

is that torchlight is the dim light produced by a torch 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.

torchlight

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The dim light produced by a torch.
  • (British): The dim light produced by a flashlight.

    • 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