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candle  (candles plural )
1  n-count A candle is a stick of hard wax with a piece of string called a wick through the middle. You light the wick in order to give a steady flame that provides light. 
The bedroom was lit by a single candle.  
2 If you burn the candle at both ends, you try to do too many things in too short a period of time so that you have to stay up very late at night and get up very early in the morning to get them done. 
♦ burn the candle at both ends  phrase