CANDLE


Meaning of CANDLE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kænd(ə)l ]

( candles)

1.

A candle is a stick of hard wax with a piece of string called a wick through the middle. You light the wick in order to give a steady flame that provides light.

The bedroom was lit by a single candle.

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2.

If you burn the candle at both ends , you try to do too many things in too short a period of time so that you have to stay up very late at night and get up very early in the morning to get them done.

PHRASE : V inflects

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