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 Definitions of wick  [ɪk]  

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Definition of 'wick' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) wick
a twist or braid of soft threads or a woven strip, as of cotton, that in a candle, lamp, etc., serves to draw up the flammable liquid to be burned.

2. (v.t.) wick
to draw off (liquid) by capillary action.

3. (n.) wick
Archaic. a village; hamlet.

Etymology:  (bef. 900; ME wik, wich, OE wīc house, village (cf. OS wīc, OHG wîch) < L vīcus village, estate (see vicinity ); c. Gk oîkos house (see ecology , economy ))

Definition of 'wick' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) wick
any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action
"the physician put a wick in the wound to drain it"

2. (noun) wick, taper
a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame


Definition of 'wick' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) wick
alt. of Wich

2. (noun) wick
a bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned

3. (verb) wick
to strike a stone in an oblique direction


Definitions of 'wick' The Nuttall Encyclopedia 

1.  wick
county-town of Caithness, on Wick River, 161 m. NE. of Inverness, is the chief seat of the herring fishery in Scotland; Wick proper, with its suburbs Louisburgh and Boathaven, is on the N. of the river, and Pultneytown on the S.; has a few manufactures, with distilleries and breweries.


Translation of 'wick' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: the twisted threads of cotton etc in a candle, lamp etc, which draw up the oil or wax into the flame.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: pit Arabic flag Arabic: فَتيلَه، ذُبالَه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: фитил
Brazilian flag Brazilian: pavio Czech flag Czech: knot German flag German: der Docht
Danish flag Danish: væge Greek flag Greek: φιτίλι Spanish flag Spanish: mecha
Estonian flag Estonian: taht Farsi flag Farsi: چيزى که بجاى فتيله بکار ر Finnish flag Finnish: sydän
French flag French: mèche Hebrew flag Hebrew: פְּתִיל Hindi flag Hindi: बत्ती
Croatian flag Croatian: stijenj Hungarian flag Hungarian: kanóc Indonesian flag Indonesian: sumbu
Icelandic flag Icelandic: kveikur Italian flag Italian: stoppino Japanese flag Japanese: しん
Korean flag Korean: 심지 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: dagtis Latvian flag Latvian: dakts
Malay flag Malay: sumbu Dutch flag Dutch: wiek Norwegian flag Norwegian: veke
Polish flag Polish: knot Persian flag Persian: چيزى که بجاى فتيله بکار ر Pashto flag Pashto: باتۍ، پلته، پليته
Portuguese flag Portuguese: pavio Romanian flag Romanian: fitil Russian flag Russian: фитиль
Slovak flag Slovak: knôt Slovenian flag Slovenian: stenj Serbian flag Serbian: nit sveće
Swedish flag Swedish: veke Thai flag Thai: ไส้เทียน; ไส้ตะเกียง Turkish flag Turkish: fitil
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 燈芯 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: ґніт Urdu flag Urdu: چراغ کی بتی
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: bấc đèn Chinese flag Chinese: 灯芯

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