(n.) An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions.
(n.) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.
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Lantern
Definition:
(n.) Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light.
(n.) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
(n.) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
(n.) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral.
(n.) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion (below).
(n.) 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. ; -- called also lantern brass.
(n.) A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
(n.) See Aristotle's lantern.
(v. t.) To furnish with a lantern; as, to lantern a lighthouse.
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(1) Justice League, a followup to Dawn of Justice featuring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, arrives in May 2017, with a film starring Flash and the Green Lantern debuting the following Christmas.
(2) Rio 2016 spokesman, Philip Wilkinson, explained there is a back-up of eight lanterns.
(3) The trip is a contrast in streetscapes: the former is best known for the Rainbow Bridge and the space-age headquarters of Fuji TV, the latter a wonderfully disorderly collection of narrow streets, old buildings and Sensoji Temple , instantly recognisable by the huge akachochin red lantern marking its entrance.
(4) The cases of seven adults who ingested jack o'lantern mushrooms are presented.
(5) The outcome of the plate test does not give evidence of the subject's lantern test performance.
(6) It has also swung a lantern over forbidden terrain: Jones’s personal beliefs.
(7) Didn’t have power, didn’t have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.
(8) That’s an innovative way to fund.” Much of the existing renewables provision in refugee camps – clean cookstoves and solar lanterns – is donated by NGOs and social enterprises on a small scale.
(9) The library was built as a "lantern for learning"; McElheny has used the moving images and illumination as central motifs.
(10) Already, solar lanterns and solar photovoltaic panels are bringing electricity to millions of Indians who have remained in the dark for generations.
(11) Male candidates (1020) for employment in occupations that required discrimination of colour were subjected to the Ishihara test and two trade tests of colour perception, the Giles Archer Lantern test and the Electricity Supply Industry (ESI) wire test.
(12) Bales acknowledged setting the bodies alight with a kerosene lantern.
(13) Earlier this year, the North called US secretary of state John Kerry a wolf with a “hideous” lantern jaw and South Korean president Park Geun-hye a prostitute.
(14) British forces successfully dropped water and rechargeable solar lanterns to the besieged Yazidi refugees earlier on Tuesday.
(15) The other members of the Justice League remain superpowered twinkles in the studio's eye (bar The Green Lantern, who's more of an unattractive snot-like stain after the debacle of Martin Campbell's 2011 non-event ).
(16) Around the city’s West Lake, a leafy tourist district where many of the G20’s leaders will sleep, red Chinese lanterns and Christmas lights hang from plane trees outside Ferrari and Aston Martin showrooms.
(17) A statement from DC and Warner Bros said: “In a massive expansion of the Studio’s DC Entertainment-branded content, Warner Bros Pictures and New Line Cinema will release a slate of at least 10 movies – as well as standalone Batman and Superman films – from 2016 through 2020 that expands this prized universe of characters: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, directed by Zack Snyder (2016) Suicide Squad, directed by David Ayer (2016) Wonder Woman, starring Gal Gadot (2017) Justice League Part One, directed by Zack Snyder, with Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill and Amy Adams reprising their roles (2017) The Flash, starring Ezra Miller (2018) Aquaman, starring Jason Momoa (2018) Shazam (2019) Justice League Part Two, directed by Zack Snyder (2019) Cyborg, starring Ray Fisher (2020) Green Lantern (2020) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The second Avengers movie, Age of Ultron, is being released by Marvel next year.
(18) Sirens in the harbour will sound and 32 lanterns will be released into the sky.
(19) He certainly gave Green Lantern everything, doing as many of his own stunts as he could and ending up with a separated shoulder and in need of two minor operations.
(20) Instead of announcing Justice League for two years' time in a knee-jerk reaction to the success of The Avengers, why not turn that film into a Batman and Superman movie, while replacing Ryan Reynolds as the Green Lantern with someone more suitable and developing decent standalone takes on Wonder Woman, Aquaman and the Flash (the Martian Manhunter can turn up in a post-credits scene or something)?