Definitions for wick
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wicknoun

   any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action

   "the physician put a wick in the wound to drain it"

2. wick, tapernoun

   a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wicknoun

   The substance round which is applied the wax or tallow of a torch or candle.

   Etymology: weoce , Saxon; wiecke, Dutch.

   But true it is, that when the oil is spent,
   The light goes out, and wick is thrown away;
   So, when he had resign’d his regiment,
   His daughter ’gan despise his drooping day. Fa. Queen.

   There lives within the very flame of love
   A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it. William Shakespeare.

   Bodies are inflamed wholly and immediately, without any wick to help the inflammation. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

   Little atoms of oil or melted wax continually ascend apace up the wick of a burning candle. Digby.

   The fungous parcels about the wicks of candles only signifieth a moist and pulvious air about them. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Err.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. WICK

   WICK (1400 AM) is an oldies radio station in Scranton, Pennsylvania branded as "The Mothership" and is owned by Bold Gold Media, through licensee Bold Gold Media Group, LP. Programming is simulcast on co-owned WCDL/1440AM & W294BJ/106.7FM, licensed to nearby Carbondale, Pennsylvania, and translator W228CN at 93.5FM in Clarks Summit. The station is owned by Bold Gold Media. In 2006, the station owners dropped the previous oldies format in favor of a sports radio format branded as "THE GAME" with programming coming from Fox Sports Radio and CBS Sports Network's Jim Rome. WICK simulcasted "THE GAME" radio format on its sister station WCDL located in Carbondale, Pennsylvania . The simulcast network is also the flagship network for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders AAA Minor League Baseball radio play-by-play coverage.WICK broadcast local play-by-play for high school and college football and basketball for over four decades. In the past, the station has also broadcast locally-based sports talk shows. Starting in 2009, "The District 2 Review & More" aired Thursdays from 5 to 6pm during the high school football and basketball seasons. The show was hosted by Paul Grippi and Jim Riley. In 2013, "The Friday Night Sportsline with Chris Kucharski" was added to the lineup, airing 5 to 7pm on Fridays. In 2014, a daily weekday drive time show was launched called "The CK Sports Blitz". The show aired Monday through Thursday from 4pm to 6pm and 4pm to 5pm on Fridays. The show was hosted by local sports personality Chris Kucharski. Upon the launch of the daily show, Kucharski left as host of "The Friday Night Sportsline" and was replaced by Eddie Walker. On March 8, 2020, WICK changed format from sports to oldies, branded as "The Mothership".

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1. wick

   A wick is a string or strip of material in a candle, oil lamp, or similar baked goods that conveys fuel, often in liquid form, to the flame, and in burning, it assists in drawing the liquid up by capillary action. It might also refer to a bundle of fibers or a loosely twisted, braided, or woven cord, tape, or tube generally used for this purpose.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wicknoun

   alt. of Wich

2. Wicknoun

   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. Wickverb

   to strike a stone in an oblique direction

4. Etymology: [OE. wicke, weyke, weke, AS. weoca or wecca; cf. D. wiek a roll of lint, Prov. G. wicke, and wieche, OHG. wiohha, Sw. veke, Dan. vge; of uncertain origin.]

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1. Wick

   Wick is a community in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. Originally a separate village, it now forms part of the built up area around Littlehampton. It lies on the A284 road 0.6 miles north of the town centre. There is an annual summer festival held in Wick. The village hall is one of the largest in the area, there are several flint Victorian buildings including All Saints Church and one thatched cottage. Wick contains three separate parades of shops, including a Co-Operative supermarket, green grocer, bakery, a laundrette, two pubs and various other small specialist shops.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wick

   wik, n. a creek. [Ice. vík, a bay. Cf. Viking.]

2. Wick

   wik, v.t. in curling, to strike a stone in an oblique direction. [Prob. A.S. wícan, to bend.]

3. Wick

   wik, n. the twisted threads of cotton or other substance in a candle or lamp which draw up the inflammable liquid to a flame. [A.S. weoca; allied to weak—A.S. wác.]

4. Wick

   wik, adj. (prov.) quick, alive.—n. a lively person.

5. Wick

   wik, n. a village or town, as in Berwick, Greenwich. [A.S. wíc—L. vicus, a village.]

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wick

   [Anglo-Saxon wyc]. A creek, bay, or village, by the side of a river.

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1. WICK

   What does WICK stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the WICK acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. WICK

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Wick is ranked #4253 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Wick surname appeared 8,333 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 3 would have the surname Wick.
   
   93.8% or 7,819 total occurrences were White.
   2.5% or 216 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.5% or 129 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.8% or 69 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.7% or 64 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.4% or 36 total occurrences were Black.

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1. Alex

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   Karen

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of wick in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of wick in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of wick in a Sentence

1. Prem Rawat:

   There is a great lamp within you, and the rays of that lamp are your life. In these little lamps outside, the wick burns oil and then burns out. The lamp within does not burn anything, but gives bliss.

2. Paul Dergarabedian:

   The marketplace was so dominated by John Wick, its tough when one movie overperforms by this kind of magnitude.

3. Eli Roth:

   When people watch a trailer, they’re judging based on two-and-a-half minutes of material, and if it’s Bruce Willis shooting a gun, cut to AC/DC, some people are going to draw that conclusion. What I really try to do more than anything is show it how it really is, and leave it for the audience to decide, one thing I’m very conscious of as a filmmaker in Hollywood is not telling the audience what to think, or how to think, and you can make the same argument about ‘John Wick’ or ‘Taken.’ Any action movie you can say is a pro-gun movie. It’s giving a story that allows people to discuss a difficult subject. In the same way ‘Get Out’ came out, everyone was allowed to discuss race and racism because of the movie.

4. Principal Akbar Cook:

   The Lights On program first gained notoriety last September after Principal Akbar Cook came up with a unique idea to help students who were getting bullied for wearing dirty clothes. JOHN WICK DEFEATS AVENGERS : ENDGAME FOR TOP SPOT AT THE BOX OFFICE He installed washing machines in the locker room, giving students who couldnt afford to wash clothes, or were missing class in fear of being bullied a reason to come to school. My kids feel like they dont have anyone.

5. Jennifer Tilly:

   It's really astonishing to me how in the last five months, all of a sudden, she goes to an event with John Wick and everybody goes insane, like,' It's John Wick new girlfriend,' because she had gone to a lot of events with John Wick, it's just suddenly surfaced that John Wick's been dating her for several years.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=wick
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=wick
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wick
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wick
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=wick
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=wick
8. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Wick
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=wick
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html