See candlebomb in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for candlebomb meaning in English (1.5kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "candle",
"3": "bomb"
},
"expansion": "candle + bomb",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "candle + bomb",
"forms": [
{
"form": "candlebombs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "candlebomb (plural candlebombs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam."
],
"id": "en-candlebomb-en-noun-Pe77BCTg",
"links": [
[
"glass",
"glass"
],
[
"bubble",
"bubble"
],
[
"water",
"water"
],
[
"flame",
"flame"
],
[
"candle",
"candle"
],
[
"burst",
"burst"
],
[
"expansion",
"expansion"
],
[
"steam",
"steam"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "41 59",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1879, Albert James Myer, A Manual of Signals",
"text": "sounds of guns , trumpets , bells , drums , steam - blasts , whistles , flights of rockets , explosions of candlebombs, etc.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A pasteboard shell used in signaling, filled with a substance which makes a brilliant light when it explodes."
],
"id": "en-candlebomb-en-noun-Ke2e-vcZ",
"links": [
[
"pasteboard",
"pasteboard"
],
[
"shell",
"shell"
],
[
"signal",
"signal"
],
[
"light",
"light"
],
[
"explode",
"explode"
]
]
}
],
"word": "candlebomb"
}
{
"categories": [
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "candle",
"3": "bomb"
},
"expansion": "candle + bomb",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "candle + bomb",
"forms": [
{
"form": "candlebombs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "candlebomb (plural candlebombs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam."
],
"links": [
[
"glass",
"glass"
],
[
"bubble",
"bubble"
],
[
"water",
"water"
],
[
"flame",
"flame"
],
[
"candle",
"candle"
],
[
"burst",
"burst"
],
[
"expansion",
"expansion"
],
[
"steam",
"steam"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1879, Albert James Myer, A Manual of Signals",
"text": "sounds of guns , trumpets , bells , drums , steam - blasts , whistles , flights of rockets , explosions of candlebombs, etc.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A pasteboard shell used in signaling, filled with a substance which makes a brilliant light when it explodes."
],
"links": [
[
"pasteboard",
"pasteboard"
],
[
"shell",
"shell"
],
[
"signal",
"signal"
],
[
"light",
"light"
],
[
"explode",
"explode"
]
]
}
],
"word": "candlebomb"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (bb24e0f and c7ea76d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.