different between candle vs crayon

English

Etymology

From Middle English candel, from Old English candel (“candle”), borrowed from Latin cand?la (“candle”), from Latin cande? (“be white, bright, shining”, verb); see candid. Doublet of candela and chandelle.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kænd?l/, /?kændl?/
• Rhymes: -ænd?l

Noun

candle (plural candles)

1. A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.

2. The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.
3. (obsolete) A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela.
4. (forestry) A fast-growing, light-colored, upward-growing shoot on a pine tree in the spring. As growth slows in summer, the shoot darkens and is no longer conspicuous.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: kandra
• ? Chichewa: kandulo

Translations

Verb

candle (third-person singular simple present candles, present participle candling, simple past and past participle candled)

1. (embryology, transitive) To observe the growth of an embryo inside (an egg), using a bright light source.
2. (pottery, transitive) To dry (greenware) prior to the firing cycle, setting the kiln at 200° Celsius until all water is removed from the greenware.
3. (transitive) To check (an item, such as an envelope) by holding it between a light source and the eye.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Declan, calend, lanced

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (“(diminutive)”), from Latin creta (“chalk, clay”), from cr?tus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?e?.?n/, /?k?e?.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?e?.?n/, [?k??e?.?n]; also /?k?e?.?n/ (the most common pronunciations, used by 83% of Americans)
• (US) enPR: kr??än
• (US, uncommon, especially Northeastern US, Midwestern US) IPA^(key): /?k?æn/, [?k?e?n]
• (US, rare, especially Philadelphia, New Jersey, sometimes Southern US) IPA^(key): /?k?a?n/, [?k???n], [?k?æ?n]
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

crayon (plural crayons)

1. A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

   Hyponym: Conté

2. A colored pencil, a colouring pencil

   Synonym: pencil crayon

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     Let no day pass over you […] without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.

3. (dated) A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
   • 1885, Littell's Living Age (volume 167, page 187)

     But on the wall hung two fine crayons, representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar.

4. (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
5. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (rail transport) An informal map of a proposed rail route.

Related terms

• cretaceous

Translations

Verb

crayon (third-person singular simple present crayons, present participle crayoning or crayonning, simple past and past participle crayoned or crayonned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To draw with a crayon.

Further reading

• crayon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• crayon at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• acyron

French

Etymology

craie (“chalk”) +? -on (diminutive), from Latin cr?ta (“chalk, clay”), from cr?tus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.j??/

Noun

crayon m (plural crayons)

1. pencil
2. (colloquial) pen
3. (vulgar, slang) cock, dick, prick

Descendants

• ? English: crayon
• ? Esperanto: krajono
• ? Spanish: crayón, clarión

Further reading

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