Bougie vs. Candle — What's the Difference?

A thin, flexible surgical instrument for exploring or dilating a passage of the body.

A candle is an ignitable wick embedded in wax, or another flammable solid substance such as tallow, that provides light, and in some cases, a fragrance. A candle can also provide heat or a method of keeping time.

Exhibiting qualities attributed to the middle class, especially pretentiousness or conventionality

A solid, usually cylindrical mass of tallow, wax, or other fatty substance with an axially embedded wick that is burned to provide light.

A slender, flexible, cylindrical instrument that is inserted into a bodily canal, such as the urethra, to dilate, examine, or medicate.

Something resembling this object in shape or use.

See suppository.

(Physics) An obsolete unit of luminous intensity, originally defined in terms of a wax candle with standard composition, later in terms of a carbon-filament lamp, and superseded by the candela. Also called international candle.

A wax candle.

To examine (an egg) for freshness or fertility by holding it before a bright light.

Bourgeois

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

(medicine) A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.

The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.

A wax candle.

(obsolete) A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela.

A person who exhibits bougie behavior.

(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.

Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery.

To observe the growth of an embryo inside (an egg), using a bright light source.

Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.

To dry (greenware) prior to the firing cycle, setting the kiln at 200° Celsius until all water is removed from the greenware.

A long, flexible instrument, that is introduced into the urethra, esophagus, etc., to remove obstructions, or for the other purposes. It was originally made of waxed linen rolled into cylindrical form.

(transitive) To check (an item, such as an envelope) by holding it between a light source and the eye.

A long slender rod consisting of gelatin or some other substance that melts at the temperature of the body. It is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc.

A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light.

That which gives light; a luminary.

Stick of wax with a wick in the middle

The basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin

Examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light