noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Chinese lantern
magic lantern
storm lantern
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
magic
▪
Lime lights were also used for magic lantern shows until they were superseded by the carbon arc.
▪
They make a delightful, spontaneously spellbound audience, to whom one could show history unfolding as if with a magic lantern .
▪
Cheap cards revolve on a display stand like a magic lantern .
▪
When we were young we tended it like a magic lantern , and we continue to find its place.
▪
And during all this time I kept getting flashing pictures in my mind of Chantal, like a magic lantern slide.
■ NOUN
slide
▪
And during all this time I kept getting flashing pictures in my mind of Chantal, like a magic lantern slide .
■ VERB
light
▪
At seven o'clock that night, William Darling went up the long stairs of the lighthouse to light the big oil lantern .
▪
At a washout she sat in a cold stupor while Oliver lit the lantern and looked the place over.
▪
A dark mass trudged towards the entrance to the mill, lit by two lanterns .
▪
The interior of the stable was lit by lanterns which hung from the rafters above the central passage.
▪
Gary lights a lantern and sits, gesturing for me to sit opposite him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
And thus attired, each of us having a lantern in our hands, we went into the salt mine.
▪
Bobbing lanterns wove in and out of the goods trains in the College Rail Yard.
▪
Camp stoves, lanterns, electric lanterns and propane heaters without open flames are allowed.
▪
I made Joanna respectable by putting up my anchor lantern , made myself a mug of cocoa, and turned in.
▪
This is because there are so many domes and the lantern of each is pierced with windows.
▪
When we were young we tended it like a magic lantern , and we continue to find its place.
▪
Years ago it housed all the village activities including lantern slides, then moving pictures when they came into being.