candlestick

«candlestick» in Mova's school dictionary: A holder for a candle, with a hole or spike on top — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a candlestick, candlesticks)

meaning for a pupil

1) A holder for a candle, with a hole or spike on top. tree →

2) (money, charts) A candlestick chart shows prices going up and down with bars that look like candles. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and stories, people carried candlesticks to bed. In the board game Cluedo, the candlestick is one of the weapons. Nursery rhyme: «Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick.» In churches, tall candlesticks stand on the altar.

examples

• Grandma polished the silver candlesticks. tree →
• Jack jumped over the candlestick. tree →
• It was Colonel Mustard with the candlestick in the library! tree →
• Two brass candlesticks stood on the altar. tree →
• She carried a candlestick up the dark stairs. tree →
• Hundreds of tapers burnt upon golden candlesticks, and shed a light like the brightest day. tree →

note

One word. Countable: candlesticks.

In the corpora

• He wears a long dressing-gown, carries a flat candlestick, and «had probably been on his way to bed».
• And in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof.
• and the table and all the vessels thereof, and the candlestick and the vessels thereof, and the altar of incense,
• and the table and its vessels, and the pure candlestick with all its vessels, and the altar of incense;
• the candlestick also for the light, and its vessels, and its lamps, and the oil for the light;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «candlestick» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.