English Dictionary

lantern

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈlæn.tən/

名詞

A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.

日本語の意味

火や光を保護するために、半透明または透明な素材で作られたケース。周囲を照らす照明器具として使用される。

She carried an old brass lantern through the fog to guide the hikers back to camp.

彼女は古い真鍮製のランタンを霧の中でかざして、ハイカーたちをキャンプへと導いた。

意味（1）

A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.

意味（2）

(theater) Especially, a metal casing with lens used to illuminate a stage (e.g. spotlight, floodlight).

意味（3）

(architecture) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.

On such an afternoon, if ever, the Lord High Chancellor ought to be sitting here—as here he is—with a foggy glory round his head, softly fenced in with crimson cloth and curtains, addressed by a large advocate with great whiskers, a little voice, and an interminable brief, and outwardly directing his contemplation to the lantern in the roof, where he can see nothing but fog.

意味（4）

(architecture) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.

意味（5）

(architecture) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light.

the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral

意味（6）

(engineering) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel.

意味（7）

(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.

意味（8）

(rail transport) A light formerly used as a signal by a railway guard or conductor at night.

意味（9）

(metalworking) A perforated barrel to form a core upon.

意味（10）

(zoology) Aristotle's lantern

lanterns （ plural ）