candlestick

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English candelstik, candelstikke, from Old English candelsticca (“candlestick”), equivalent to candle +‎ stick. Cognate with Scots candilsteke, candilstik (“candlestick”). Compare Old Norse kertastika, kertistika (“candlestick”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkændəlˌstɪk/, /ˈkændl̩ˌstɪk/

Noun

candlestick (plural candlesticks)

  1. A holder with a socket or spike for a candle.
  2. A gymnastics move in which the legs are pointed vertically upward.
  3. (investing) A color-coded bar showing the open and closing price of a stock on a Japanese candlestick chart.

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Descendants

  • Sranan Tongo: kandratiki

Translations

Verb

candlestick (third-person singular simple present candlesticks, present participle candlesticking, simple past and past participle candlesticked)

  1. (of a parachute) To catch on fire, so that the chute resembles a tapered candle with a flame on top.
    • 1998, Sandler Stanley, Segregated Skies, page 104:
      Planes fell in flames, planes fell not in flames. Men fell in flames, men fell safely in their parachutes, some candlesticked.
    • 2003, Heather Williams, Parachutes, Patriots and Partisans:
      Archie Jack had a second lucky escape in a later attempt when his pilot, nervous of flying over the high mountain ranges, made him jump out at a much greater altitude than was usual. What initially seemed inconsiderate saved Jack's life as his parachute 'candlesticked', ...
    • 2013, Rick Atkinson, The Liberation:
      Others with chutes aflame candlesticked into the sea.
  2. (investing) To analyze stock behavior using Japanese candlestick charts.
    • 2003, Cynthia Pirl, Intentional Investing:
      The other book I would recommend is on a technical evaluation method called “candlesticking.”
    • 2014, Sarah Graves, Wreck the Halls:
      “You wouldn't happen to be the B. J. Devine who wrote the Devine candlestick formula?” I blurted, not thinking it could be true. Candlesticking is one of the trickier methods of charting stock.
  3. To adorn with candlesticks.
    • 1938, Langdon Ward Post, The Challenge of Housing, page 36:
      This is the argument and this the the philosophy passed across thousands of silver candlesticked dinner tables every night in this country.
    • 1962, John Wilson, The Faith of an Artist, page 71:
      The Drama's altar isn't on the stage; it is candlesticked and flowered in the box-office.
    • 1988, William Reynolds, ‎Anne Hoffman Cleaver, ‎E. Jeffrey Stann, Voyage to the Southern Ocean, page 2:
      3 When I get my room arranged, it will be carpeted, cushioned, curtained (one set crimson dama[s]k, one white), mirrored, silver candlesticked, etc., etc., etc.
  4. To form a tall, thin, tapering shape similar to a candle.
    • 1957, The American Rose Annual - Volume 42, page 50:
      If cut on the individual stems at three-leaf clusters, the cane will "candlestick."
    • 1976, Journal of the American Podiatry Association:
      Initially, the end of the shaft is ragged, but then begins to taper smoothly, exhibiting the "candlesticking" or "pencilling" referred to in the literature (Fig. 13).
    • 1991, Renee Roszel, Valentine's Knight, page 192:
      Caught there on a candlesticked overhang of ice, Quaid turned to peer down at his buddy.

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