candlestick

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A holder with a socket or spike for a candle.

   “Neither doe men light a candle, and put it vnder a bushell: but on a candlesticke, and it giueth light vnto all that are in the house.”

2. isim A gymnastics move in which the legs are pointed vertically upward.
3. isim A color-coded bar showing the open and closing prices of a stock on a candlestick chart.
4. isim The central ignition tube connecting the fuse and charge of a WWI shrapnel shell, shaped like a candle stick.

   “Inside the shrapnel shell was an iron bar with a flattened, broad nose. When the shell burst in the air this iron object fell to the ground and, since it came often from a great height, its fall was dangerous. The men called these candlesticks, which they much resembled.”

5. fiil To catch on fire, so that the chute resembles a tapered candle with a flame on top.

   “Planes fell in flames, planes fell not in flames. Men fell in flames, men fell safely in their parachutes, some candlesticked.”

6. fiil To analyze stock behavior using Japanese candlestick charts.

   “The other book I would recommend is on a technical evaluation method called “candlesticking.””

7. fiil To adorn with candlesticks.

   “The Drama's altar isn't on the stage; it is candlesticked and flowered in the box-office.”

8. fiil To form a tall, thin, tapering shape similar to a candle.

   “If cut on the individual stems at three-leaf clusters, the cane will "candlestick."”