Lantern vs. Bullseye — What's the Difference?

A lantern is an often portable source of lighting, typically featuring a protective enclosure for the light source – historically usually a candle or a wick in oil, and often a battery-powered light in modern times – to make it easier to carry and hang up, and make it more reliable outdoors or in drafty interiors. Lanterns may also be used for signaling, as torches, or as general light-sources outdoors.

The centre of a target, inside the inner and magpie.

An often portable case with transparent or translucent sides for holding and protecting a light.

A shot which hits the centre of a target.

A decorative casing for a light, often of paper.

(darts) The two central rings on a dartboard.

A light and its protective or decorative case.

A hard striped peppermint-flavoured boiled sweet.

The room at the top of a lighthouse where the light is located.

Thick glass set into the side of a ship to let in light.

(Obsolete) A lighthouse.

A hand-cancelled postmark issued by a counter clerk at a post office, typically done on a receipt for proof of mailing.

A structure built on top of a roof or dome with open or windowed walls to admit light and air.

The central part of a crown glass disk, with concentric ripple effect.

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

A convex glass lens which is placed in front of a lamp to concentrate the light so as to make it more conspicuous as a signal; also the lantern itself.

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

A commonly-known reference point used when indicating the location or direction of something.

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

(architectural element) An oculus.

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

A £50 banknote.

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

Any of the first postage stamps produced in Brazil from 1843.

(engineering) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel.

A cry when someone hits the bullseye of a target.

(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.

(by extension) A response to a totally accurate statement.

(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

(transitive) To furnish with a lantern.

Of a facial feature, large and squarish in shape as an old-fashioned lantern.

Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc.; - sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light.

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

A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion (below).

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.; - called also lantern brass.

A perforated barrel to form a core upon.

See Aristotle's lantern.

To furnish with a lantern; as, to lantern a lighthouse.

Light in a transparent protective case