different between candidate vs chandelier

English

Etymology

From Latin candid?tus (“a person who is standing for public office”), from candidus (“dazzling white, shining, clear”) + -?tus (an adjectival suffix), in reference to Roman candidates wearing bleached white togas as a symbol of purity at a public forum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kæn.d?d?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?kæn.d?.de?t/, /?kæn.d?.d?t/
• (US, colloquially) IPA^(key): /?kæn.?.d?t/, /?kæn.?.de?t/

Noun

candidate (plural candidates)

1. A person who is running in an election.

2. A person who is applying for a job.

3. A participant in an examination.

4. Something or somebody that may be suitable.
5. (genetics) A gene which may play a role in a given disease.

Derived terms

• candidacy
• Manchurian candidate
• release candidate

Related terms

Translations

Verb

candidate (third-person singular simple present candidates, present participle candidating, simple past and past participle candidated)

1. (uncommon) To stand as a candidate for an office, especially a religious one.
   • 1906, Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, page 196:

     The matter of candidating for a pulpit is not a matter of difference between congregations and Rabbis, but between Rabbis themselves.

   • 2014, Susan H. Jones, Listening for God's Call, SCM Press (?ISBN), page 74:

     The report Shaping the Future also gives a set of learning outcomes for those people candidating for ordained ministry. These were also agreed by the Methodist Conference.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:candidated.
2. (nonstandard, chiefly in jargon and non-native speakers' English) To make or name (something) a candidate (for use, for study as a next project, for investigation as a possible cause of something, etc).
   • 1982, Brian O'Leary, Space industrialization, CRC:

     Performance comparison of solar energy conversion candidated for SPS. (From NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston 1977.)

   • 1989, Institution of Electrical Engineers. Electronics Division, European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, 5-8 September 1989, Peter Peregrinus Limited (?ISBN):

     In this program if a processor becomes idle, then all feasible activities requiring that kind of processor will be candidated for scheduling. If the number of candidates is more than the number of available processors, activities with higher priority ...

   • 2005, Khaled M. Khan, Yan Zhang, Managing Corporate Information Systems Evolution and Maintenance, IGI Global (?ISBN), page 308:

     Evaluate the maintenance costs of the software system in order to candidate it for evolution AA14. Evaluate the hardware platform used and the possibility of migrating the software system toward more economical platforms ...

References

French

Noun

candidate f (plural candidates)

1. female equivalent of candidat

Further reading

• “candidate” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

candidate f

1. plural of candidata

Verb

candidate

1. second-person plural present indicative of candidare
2. second-person plural imperative of candidare
3. feminine plural of candidato

Latin

Noun

candid?te

1. vocative singular of candid?tus

Norman

Noun

candidate f (plural candidates)

1. female equivalent of candidat

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kandi?date/, [kãn?.d?i?ð?a.t?e]

Verb

candidate

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of candidatar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of candidatar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of candidatar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of candidatar.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French chandelier, from Latin candelabrum, from candela (“a candle”). Doublet of candelabrum. see candle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ænd??l??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

chandelier (plural chandeliers)

1. A branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section vi

     She opened the drawing-room door in trepidation. Would she find Esther drowned with her head in the goldfish bowl, or hanged from the chandelier by her stay-lace?

2. (auction) A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.

   Synonym: wall

   • 2007, Frank Pope, "Dragon Sea: a true tale of treasure, archeology, and greed off the coast of Vietnam", Harcourt Books, p. 306.

     A mysterious phone bidder was grabbing the pieces that no one else wanted—Mensun suspected this was the auction house "bidding against the chandelier," protecting itself against selling too low.

3. (obsolete, military) A portable frame used to support temporary wooden fences.
   • 1747, James Boswell, The Scots Book, volume 9, p. 37. [1]

     Chandelier. A wooden frame, whereon are laid fascines or faggots, to cover the workmen in making approaches.

   • 1994, Todd A. Shallat, Structures in the Stream: Water, Science, and the Rise of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, University of Texas Press, p. 32.

     Europeans solved this problem by building a temporary fence with tightly bound sticks ("fascines") stacked into wooden frames ("chandeliers").

4. (surgery) An endoilluminator used in eye surgery.

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Translations

Further reading

• chandelier in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• chandelier in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.d?.lje/

Etymology 1

From Latin cand?l?brum, with a change in suffix. Doublet of candélabre.

Noun

chandelier m (plural chandeliers)

1. candlestick
2. chandelier

Related terms

• chandelle

Etymology 2

chandelle +? -ier, or from Medieval Latin candel?rius. Compare Catalan candeler, Italian candelaio, Spanish candelero.

Noun

chandelier m (plural chandeliers)

1. candlemaker

Further reading

• “chandelier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Noun

chandelier m (plural chandelieres)

1. chandelier