(n.) A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light.
(n.) That which gives light; a luminary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Okawa, who became the world's oldest person last June following the death at 116 of fellow Japanese Jiroemon Kimura , was given a cake with just three candles at her nursing home in Osaka – one for each figure in her age.
(2) Inoculating sputum on modified Thayer-Martin medium and extending the initial incubation period of 3 days at 35 degrees C under 10% carbon dioxide to a further 3 weeks at room temperature in a candle jar, led to the diagnoses, which otherwise would have been missed, of pulmonary nocardiosis in 3 patients and pulmonary infections due to Neisseria meningitidis, Pseudomonas cepacia, and Serratia marcescens in a further 22 patients.
(3) No clear gross or histological distinctions between the ventricular "candle gutterings" and "tumors" have been identified.
(4) Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris has put up with a lot in its first century - the flying angel headstone has been castrated (twice), commemorative candles have scorched the front, and multilingual graffiti are regularly scrawled over the tomb.
(5) In London a candlelit vigil – which the government hopes will be emulated in churches, by other faiths and by families across the land – will be held at Westminster Abbey, ending with the last candle being extinguished at 11pm, the moment war was declared.
(6) In parts of Russia, the shelves were emptied of fuel, matches, sugar and candles, supposedly in anticipation of something worse than winter in Russia.
(7) By the afternoon of the day of the Smolensk catastrophe, the candles that were usually found in cemeteries on the margins of town had appeared en masse in public spaces in the heart of Warsaw.
(8) Statistically significant decreases in recovery rate were noted when each system was compared with the traditional plate-candle jar technique.
(9) We meet at the headquarters of the Independent and the Evening Standard in Kensington, in an office scented by a Jo Malone orange blossom candle, and groaning with contemporary art.
(10) When the bombardment is particularly strong, they sit for hours in the windowless room lit by candles and strewn with mattresses.
(11) Cherepinsky writes a popular weekly picks column throughout the year and offers up plenty of fantasy football advice, but none of it holds a candle to the draft.
(12) US secretary of state John Kerry lights a candle and lays roses at the 'shrine of the fallen' for protesters killed in Kiev.
(13) In the three-minute video, ‘From Candles to Computers: Bringing Electricity to China’s Jing Jin village’, she says: “The coal industry is a major force in eliminating fuel poverty in China but, more importantly, it’s a critical driving force for the phenomenal economic growth China has experienced.” The video comes with a soothing soundtrack of traditional Chinese music, and is beautifully shot.
(14) Eggs were set weekly and candled at 7 days of incubation to determine fertility.
(15) He has the right idea in combining old and new, like Fulgence Bienvenüe, who built the all-electric Paris Metro , yet lit his house by candles because they're beautiful.
(16) The O2 index of flammability is the minimum O2 fraction in nitrogen that will support candle-like flame using a standard ignition source.
(17) Fertility was determined by candling eggs after 7 days' incubation.
(18) These isolates grew very well on Gonococcal Agar and Mueller-Hinton Agar incubated at 34 degrees C in candle extinction jars containing moistened filter paper.
(19) Collective jitters produced by the end of the Mayan calendar have been good business for the suppliers of candles, matches, salt and torches in some parts of Russia, even though, as one psychiatrist noted, what happens every day can be a lot scarier than Armageddon.
(n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen.
(v. i. & t.) To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v.
(n.) A gutter in a candle.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is an excruciating fly-on-the-wall witness to Allison's vainglory, Swales's self-regard for his own leadership qualities and the poor young players' overpromoted helplessness.
(2) We had hounded Swales out, in an unforgiving public humiliation, for a childhood hero we believed would make us happy again.
(3) Previously he was chief executive of Amicus Group and Swale Housing Association.
(4) Ian Swales MP, a member of the Commons public acccounts committee, said of the BBC's refusal to say how much DMI has cost"this type of secrecy is inappropriate".
(5) He said 13 were pledged to vote against: Tim Farron, Charles Kennedy, Sir Menzies Campbell, Mike Hancock, Bob Russell, Greg Mulholland, John Pugh, Mark Williams, Roger Williams, Martin Horwood, Julian Huppert, Ian Swales and John Leech.
(6) The overspending on new players by Allison and Swales is still legendary.
(7) Quinn Swales was taking guests on a photographic walking safari in Hwange national park at dawn on Monday when he was charged by the male, according to the Camp Hwange lodge.
(8) Boats were used for surveying areas of the Medway and Swale estuaries, while researchers on foot were able to get to spots the boats could not reach.
(9) The letter in Wednesday's Guardian is signed by Huppert, Annette Brooke, Malcolm Bruce, Mike Crockart, Andrew George, Mike Hancock, John Leech, Greg Mulholland, John Pugh, Alan Reid, Adrian Sanders, Ian Swales, David Ward, Mark Williams, Stephen Gilbert and Roger Williams.
(10) The signatories of the letter are Huppert, Annette Brooke, Malcolm Bruce, Mike Crockart, Andrew George, Mike Hancock, John Leech, Greg Mulholland, John Pugh, Alan Reid, Adrian Sanders, Ian Swales, David Ward, Mark Williams, Stephen Gilbert and Roger Williams.
(11) In the week of that final match, Peter Swales had died aged 62, a broken man shattered by his ousting.
(12) They were: Gordon Birtwistle (Burnley) Michael Crockart (Edinburgh West) Andrew George (St Ives) Julian Huppert (Cambridge) Dan Rogerson (Cornwall North) Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove) Ian Swales (Redcar) Sarah Teather (Brent Central) Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire).
(13) Gateshead and Tamworth have 30.7% adult obesity, while two other districts, Swale and Medway in Kent, have also for the first time nudged over the 30% line.
(14) Brown works for Swale borough council as an apprentice within the commissioning and open spaces department.
(15) He resigned the day after being named by Cable as the senior party figure who had commissioned the surveys from pollsters ICM that showed Clegg in Sheffield Hallam, Munt in Wells, Swales in Redcar and Cable in Twickenham were likely to lose their seats under the current leadership.
(16) Swales had not, in fact, been extracted out of Maine Road; he still owned 10% of the club.
(17) Ian Swales, a Liberal Democrat member of the PAC, asked: "All the schemes you have marketed are now illegal, so you are now looking for the next loophole – is that a fair description of your business?"
(18) We can confirm that Quinn did everything he could to successfully protect his guests and ensure their safety, and that no guests were injured in the incident.” The safari industry paid tribute to Swales.
(19) Ian Swales, the Redcar MP whose constituency Oakeshott also polled, told his local Gazette that the results suggesting he would lose his seat were "based on a small sample and look very amateurish".
(20) The global popularity of the English Premier League, shown and watched in 200 countries around the world, means that Manchester City, Peter Swales's cocked-up football club I grew up supporting, is a huge media phenomenon.