lantern

IPA: ɫˈæntɝn

A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
(theater) Especially, a metal casing with lens used to illuminate a stage (e.g. spotlight, floodlight).
(architecture) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
(architecture) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
(architecture) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light.
(engineering) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel.
(steam engines) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc.; a lantern brass.
(rail transport) A light formerly used as a signal by a railway guard or conductor at night.
(metalworking) A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
(zoology) Aristotle's lantern

Examples of "lantern" in Sentences

The lanterns are used to direct the ghosts.
The front of the lantern displays the gate's name.
At the top is the lantern surrounded by the gallery.
The tradition of carving a lantern started in the UK.
I snatched a lantern from the wall, lighted it, and followed.
He was the foe of the original Green Lantern as well as Wildcat.
She drops the lantern and the entire room is engulfed in flames.
The magic lantern is the predecessor of the modern day projector.
Ignoring his role and starting with another lantern is just silly.
The tower was from the base to the lantern room and displayed nine lamps.
It is unknown whether the males of the horned lantern fish are parasitic.
After the show there was a traditional Chinese game called lantern-riddles.
In the firefly, octopamine release leads to light production in the lantern.
Imagine scouts scouring the woods with a lantern -- with a _lantern_, Renny!
Science employs the same term: it calls the lantern-bearer, _Lampyris noctiluca_, LIN.
Taking down a lantern from a nail by the door, he went out, as was his nightly habit, to look at his grey mare Hannah.
It's what an engine whistle or the swing of a lantern is to us trainmen, and I'm glad our boys play at something so sensible.
“Tá álík” = hanging lamps, often in lantern shape with coloured glass and profuse ornamentation; the Maroccan are now familiar to
I stayed only an hour, but did manage to find one treasure: a 19th-century gold gilt and mesh petite hanging lantern from a French church.