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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024wick1 /wɪk/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a twist of soft threads that in a candle or oil lamp draws up the liquid to be burned.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024wick1 (wik),USA pronunciation n. - 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.
v.t. - to draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
- bef. 1000; Middle English wicke, weke, Old English wice, wēoc(e); cognate with Middle Dutch wiecke, Middle Low German wêke, Old High German wiohha lint, wick (German Wieke lint); akin to Sanskrit vāgura noose
- Sporta narrow opening in the field, bounded by other players' stones.
- origin, originally uncertain
- British Termsa farm, esp. a dairy farm.
- [Archaic.]a village;
hamlet.
- Latin vīcus village, estate (see vicinity); cognate with Greek oîkos house (see ecology, economy)
- Middle English wik, wich, Old English wīc house, village (compare Old Saxon wīc, Old High German wîch) bef. 900
- Place Namesa town in the Highland region, in N Scotland: herring fisheries. 7613.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: wick /wɪk/ n - a cord or band of loosely twisted or woven fibres, as in a candle, cigarette lighter, etc, that supplies fuel to a flame by capillary action
- get on someone's wick ⇒ Brit slang to cause irritation to a person
Etymology: Old English weoce; related to Old High German wioh, Middle Dutch wēke (Dutch wiek) wick /wɪk/ n - archaic a village or hamlet
Etymology: Old English wīc; related to -wich in place names, Latin vīcus, Greek oîkos Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Wick /wɪk/ n - a town in N Scotland, in Highland, at the head of Wick Bay (an inlet of the North Sea). Pop: 7333 (2001)
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