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Definition: Wick |
WickNoun1. Any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action. 2. A loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | A strip of plaited material, usually cotton, which by capillary action draws liquid fuel from a reservoir to a burner. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Length of loosely woven fabric used in pre-cured retread systems to allow free passage of air to atmosphere. In hot retreading wicks may be built into tire using cord to allow trapped air in casing to escape during cure. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A woven or braided narrow fabric, or a yarn or a group of yarns, having outstanding capillary properties. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | To place a soft twisted-cotton string between rod joints as they are madeup or coupled. (references) |
Occupations | Strands of asbestos twisted together and used for making asbestos rope, packing for steam valves, and as a seal for oven or furnace doors. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Wick is a royal burgh in Caithness, in the far north of Scotland. It was originally a Viking settlement, which was expanded as a herring fishery in the early nineteenth century to house crofters cleared from their lands.The town lies on the east coast. It has a small airport, a railway station and a heritage centre.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wick."
Synonym: WickSynonym: taper (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fuel | Brand, torch, fuse; wick; spill, match, light, lucifer, congreve, vesuvian, vesta, fusee, locofoco; linstock. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Wick |
| English words defined with "wick": Argand lamp ♦ candle, Candlefish, candlewick, Carcel lamp, chimney ♦ dip, Dipped candle ♦ gasoline bomb ♦ Lamp burner, lamp chimney ♦ matchlock, Molotov cocktail ♦ Oil cup ♦ Padella, petrol bomb ♦ Quick match ♦ rush candle, rushlight ♦ Siphon cup, Snast ♦ taper ♦ Watch light, wax light, Wich. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "wick": base-and-wick assembler ♦ CANDLE MOLDER, HAND, CANDLE MOLDER, MACHINE, candle pourer, CANDLE-EXTRUSION-MACHINE OPERATOR, CIGARETTE-LIGHTER REPAIRER ♦ FIREWORKS ASSEMBLER ♦ PACKER-FUSER, pyrotechnic assembler ♦ ROPE MAKER, MACHINE ♦ THIEF IN A CANDLE ♦ wick tender, Wick, Wicked, WICK-AND-BASE ASSEMBLER, WICKER, MOLDED CANDLES. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "wick": Constablewick. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Medfly feeding on a cotton wick soaked with a bait-dye mixture. Photo by Scott Bauer. Credit: USDA ARS News. |  | The wick fancy hat bands. Cheer up - show your colors. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He examined the flame of the candle with a stupid air, and took some of the melted wax from around the wick and rolled it in his fingers |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She raised the screechy shade of the lantern and lighted the wick. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Wick" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 56.73% of the time. "Wick" is used about 171 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 56.73% | 97 | 33,269 |
| Noun (singular) | 43.27% | 74 | 38,813 |
| Total | 100.00% | 171 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "wick" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Wick | Last name | 3,000 | 4,481 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Wick, WV |
Expression using "wick": shire wick. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "wick": wick-dipping. | |
Ending with "wick": candle-wick, Chis-wick, Inverness-wick, ke-wick. | |
Containing "wick": Edinburgh-wick-kirkwall. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
furniture wick | 711 | furniture.com wick | 16 |
wick | 560 | 3 wick candle | 15 |
wick home | 93 | weed wick | 14 |
lori wick | 86 | scents.com wax wick | 14 |
wick furniture store | 83 | pizza wick | 13 |
wick and stick | 65 | program wick | 13 |
wick n stick | 54 | solder wick | 12 |
candle wick | 52 | wick scotland | 12 |
lumber wick | 47 | outdoor wick works | 12 |
building wick | 34 | bill wick | 12 |
diy wick | 32 | ear wick | 10 |
aircraft wick | 26 | john wick | 10 |
air wick | 24 | denis wick | 10 |
oil lamp wick | 22 | fiberglass wick | 10 |
3 cake candle wick | 21 | furniture home wick | 10 |
rope wick | 18 | uk wick | 10 |
sue wick | 17 | three wick candle | 10 |
aircraft supply wick | 16 | building system wick | 10 |
wick united kingdom | 16 | wick tab | 10 |
drain wick | 16 | soder wick | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "wick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Fitil (fuse, fuze, slow match). (various references) | |
Arabic | فتيلة (priming, suppository), فتيل (cord, fuse, fuze, primer, slow match), ذبالة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Марлен "ренаж, Фитил, Тампон. (various references) | |
Chinese | 灯芯. (various references) | |
Czech | Knot. (various references) | |
Danish | væge (fuse). (various references) | |
Dutch | pit (core, fuse, grain, granule, kernel, nucleus, pip, pit), kousje (fuse), lont (fuse), lampepit (fuse). (various references) | |
Esperanto | meĉo (fuse). (various references) | |
Faeroese | veikur (faint, fuse, light, weak), fjústráður (fuse). (various references) | |
Farsi | فتیله , چیزی که بجای فتیله بکاررود, افروزه . (various references) | |
Finnish | sydän (core, heart, kernel, pith), lampunsydän. (various references) | |
French | mèche (wisp). (various references) | |
German | Docht (fuse). (various references) | |
Greek | ύφασμα για εκκένωση, υλικό για εκκένωση, φιτίλι (fuse, snuff, wich), φυτίλι λάμπας (lampwick, lamp-wick), φυτίλι (fuse, tinder), Θρυαλλίσ, θρυαλλίδα (time bomb), Φυτίλι. (various references) | |
Hebrew | װתיל". (various references) | |
Hungarian | lámpabél, kanóc (candle-wick, fuse, fuze, match, slow match, tinder). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sumbu. (various references) | |
Italian | stoppino (fuse), lucignolo (lampwick, lamp-wick, roving, slubbing). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 芯 (core, heart, marrow), 灯心 , ウーロン茶 (Oolong tea, Vienna Appeal, weak, weak point, week, weekday, weekend, weekly, widget, wizard), 心 (core, heart, marrow, mind, spirit). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | し" (8th in rank, Buddhist sect originating in the thirteenth century, confidence, core, devotion, eighth sign of the Chinese calendar, faith, fidelity, genuineness, heart, marrow, new, reality, reliance, sincerity, trust, truth), ウィク , とうし" (body proportions, degree of kinship, Eastern China, findings, investment trust, proceeding east, propensity to steal, reply, report, suicide by jumping into a river, sword blade). (various references) | |
Korean | 심지. (various references) | |
Manx | Yn Ooig, bite (bait, lure). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ickway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pavio (candle-wick, fuse), mecha (candle-wick, fuse, match, tinder), torcida (candle-wick, match). (various references) | |
Romanian | topi (consume, destroy, dissolve, flux, found, fuse, melt, melt down, render, ret, rot, smelt, thaw), Tampon (buffer, cushion, pad, plug, plugging, tampon, wad), Muc (snuff, stub, stump), Fitil (fuse, lighter, lint, match, squib), şterţ. (various references) | |
Russian | фитиль (candlewick, candle-wick), Фитиль, Тампон. (various references) | |
Scottish | Inbhir Ùige. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | fitilj (fuse, primer, spunk). (various references) | |
Spanish | mecha (candle-wick, fuse, fuze, match, twist). (various references) | |
Swedish | veke (candlewick, candle-wick). (various references) | |
Turkish | Fitil (candlewick, cord, detonator, flute, fuse, fuze, piping, portfire, rib, Seton, suppository). (various references) | |
Turkmen | pelte. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Містечко, Тампон, "ніт. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bấc đèn (lamp wick). (various references) | |
Welsh | pabwyr (candlewick). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wick": wickape, wickapes, wicked, wickeder, wickedest, wickedly, wickedness, wickednesses, wicker, wickers, wickerwork, wickerworks, wicket, wickets, wicking, wickings, wickiup, wickiups, wicks, wickyup, wickyups. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "wick": bailiwick, candlewick, pickwick. (additional references) | |
Words containing "wick": bailiwicks, candlewicks, pickwicks. (additional references) | |
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"Wick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aicc, Iwak, kwick, qwick, Qwik, twick, Uicc, wack, waic, weck, weeck, weic, weick, Wgic, wic, wica, wicc, wicce, wicka, wicki, wicn, wics, wicu, Wieck, wiek, Wijk, wik, wika, wiky, wirk, wisc, wisk, wix, wock, wocke, wric, wyck, zick, Zwack, Zwick, Zwickau. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wick" (pronounced wi"k) |
| 3 | w i" k | quick. |
| 2 | -i" k | brick, chick, click, Crick, Dick, flick, handpick, Hick, kick, lick, Mick, Nick, nonstick, pic, pick, prick, realpolitik, Rick, schtick, shtick, sic, sick, slick, spic, stick, Strick, thick, tic, tick, trick. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-k-w" | |
-1 letter: ick. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-k-w" | |
+1 letter: wicks, wrick. | |
+2 letters: wicked, wicker, wicket, wricks. | |
+3 letters: chewink, cowlick, cowskin, wackier, wackily, whicker, wickape, wickers, wickets, wicking, wickiup, wickyup, winnock, wricked. | |
+4 letters: chewinks, clawlike, cowlicks, cowskins, cribwork, downtick, kickshaw, mackinaw, pickwick, rickshaw, wackiest, whackier, whacking, whickers, whitrack, wickapes, wickeder, wickedly, wickings, wickiups, wickyups, windsock, wingback, winnocks, wracking, wrecking, wricking, zwieback. | |
+5 letters: backswing, bailiwick, brickwork, chickweed, clockwise, cribworks, downticks, kickshaws, mackinaws, pickwicks, piecework, rickshaws, screwlike, shipwreck, stickweed, stickwork, thwacking, wackiness, whackiest, whickered, whipstock, whitracks, wickedest, windsocks, wingbacks, wisecrack, witchlike, workpiece, wreckings, wristlock, zwiebacks. | |
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