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wick1    Audio Help   [wik] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a bundle or loose twist or braid of soft threads, or a woven strip or tube, as of cotton or asbestos, which in a candle, lamp, oil stove, cigarette lighter, or the like, serves to draw up the melted tallow or wax or the oil or other flammable liquid to be burned.
–verb (used with object)
2.to draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
[Origin: bef. 1000; ME wicke, weke, OE wice, wéoc(e); c. MD wiecke, MLG wêke, OHG wiohha lint, wick (G Wieke lint); akin to Skt vāgura noose]

—Related forms
wickless, adjective
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wick2    Audio Help   [wik] Pronunciation Key
–noun Curling.
a narrow opening in the field, bounded by other players' stones.
[Origin: orig. uncert.]
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–noun
1.British Dialect. a farm, esp. a dairy farm.
2.Archaic. a village; hamlet.
[Origin: bef. 900; ME wik, wich, OE wīc house, village (cf. OS wīc, OHG wǐch) < L vīcus village, estate (see vicinity); c. Gk oǐkos house (see ecology, economy)]
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–noun
a town in the Highland region, in N Scotland: herring fisheries. 7613.
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wick    Audio Help   (wĭk)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A cord or strand of loosely woven, twisted, or braided fibers, as on a candle or oil lamp, that draws up fuel to the flame by capillary action.
  2. A piece of material that conveys liquid by capillary action.

tr. & intr.v.   wicked (wĭkt), wick·ing, wicks
To convey or be conveyed by capillary action: water gradually wicking up through the bricks.


[Middle English wike, from Old English wēoce.]

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wick  (1)
"bundle of fiber in a lamp or candle," O.E. weoce, from W.Gmc. *weukon (cf. M.Du. wieke, Du. wiek, O.H.G. wiohha, Ger. Wieche), of unknown origin, with no known cognates beyond Gmc. To dip one's wick "engage in sexual intercourse" (in ref. to males) is recorded from 1958, perhaps from Hampton Wick, rhyming slang for "prick," which would connect it rather to wick (2).

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wick  (2)
"dairy farm," now surviving, if at all, as a localism in East Anglia or Essex, it was once the common O.E. wic "dwelling place, abode," then coming to mean "village, hamlet, town," and later "dairy farm" (e.g. Gatwick "Goat-farm"). Common in this latter sense 13c.-14c. The word is a general Gmc. borrowing from L. vicus "village, hamlet" (see vicinity). Cf. O.H.G. wih "village," Ger. Weichbild "municipal area," Du. wijk "quarter, district," O.Fris. wik, O.S. wic "village."

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wick

noun
1. any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action; "the physician put a wick in the wound to drain it" 
2. a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame 

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wick [wik] noun
the twisted threads of cotton etc in a candle, lamp etc, which draw up the oil or wax into the flame
Arabic: فَتيلَه، ذُبالَه
Chinese (Simplified): 灯芯
Chinese (Traditional): 燈芯
Czech: knot
Danish: væge
Dutch: wiek
Estonian: taht
Finnish: sydän
French: mèche
German: der Docht
Greek: φιτίλι
Hungarian: kanóc
Icelandic: kveikur
Indonesian: sumbu
Italian: stoppino
Japanese: しん
Korean: (초·남포·석유 난로 등의) 심지
Latvian: dakts
Lithuanian: dagtis
Norwegian: veke
Polish: knot
Portuguese (Brazil): pavio, mecha
Portuguese (Portugal): pavio
Romanian: fitil
Russian: фитиль
Slovak: knôt
Slovenian: stenj
Spanish: mecha
Swedish: veke
Turkish: fitil
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Main Entry: 2wick
Function: transitive verb
: to absorb or drain (as fluid or moisture) like a wick —often used with away <a dry gauze dressing was used to wick exudate away from the wound>

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Main Entry: 1wick
Pronunciation: 'wik
Function: noun
: a strip of material (as gauze) placed in a wound to serve as a drain

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Wick, WV Zip code(s): 26185

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Wick

Vi*cin"i*ty\ (?; 277), n. [L. vicinitas, from vicinus neighboring, near, from vicus a row of houses, a village; akin to Gr. ? a house, Skr. v??a a house, vi? to enter, Goth. weihs town: cf. OF. vicinit['e]. Cf. Diocese, Economy, Parish, Vicinage, Wick a village.]

1. The quality or state of being near, or not remote; nearness; propinquity; proximity; as, the value of the estate was increased by the vicinity of two country seats.

A vicinity of disposition and relative tempers. --Jer. Taylor.

2. That which is near, or not remote; that which is adjacent to anything; adjoining space or country; neighborhood. "The vicinity of the sun." --Bentley.

Syn: Neighborhood; vicinage. See Neighborhood.
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Wick

Wich\, n. A variant of 1st Wick.
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Wick

Wick\, or Wich \Wich\, n. [AS. w[=i]c village, fr. L. vicus. In some names of places, perhaps fr. Icel. v[=i]k an inlet, creek, bay. See Vicinity, and cf. Villa.]

1. A street; a village; a castle; a dwelling; a place of work, or exercise of authority; -- now obsolete except in composition; as, bailiwick, Warwick, Greenwick. --Stow.

2. (Curling) A narrow port or passage in the rink or course, flanked by the stones of previous players.
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