wick

¹

[ wik ]

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)

1. to draw off (liquid) by capillary action.

wick

²

[ wik ]

noun

, Curling.

1. a narrow opening in the field, bounded by other players' stones.

wick

³

[ wik ]

noun

1. British Dialect. a farm, especially a dairy farm.
2. Archaic. a village; hamlet.

Wick

⁴

[ wik ]

noun

1. a town in the Highland region, in N Scotland: herring fisheries.

wick

¹

/ wɪk /

noun

1. archaic.
   a village or hamlet

wick

²

/ wɪk /

adjective

1. lively or active
2. alive or crawling

   a dog wick with fleas

Wick

³

/ wɪk /

noun

1. a town in N Scotland, in Highland, at the head of Wick Bay (an inlet of the North Sea). Pop: 7333 (2001)

wick

⁴

/ wɪk /

noun

1. 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
2. get on someone's wick slang.
   to cause irritation to a person

Derived Forms

• ˈwicking, noun

Other Words From

• wickless adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of wick¹

First recorded before 1000; Middle English wek(e), wik(e), wicke, Old English wēoce; cognate with Middle Dutch wiecke, Middle Low German wêke, weike, Old High German wioh, wiohha “lint, wick,” German Wieke, Wike “lint”

Origin of wick²

Origin uncertain

Origin of wick³

First recorded before 900; Middle English wik(e), wek(e), Old English wīc “residence, dwelling, house, village” (compare Old Saxon wīc, Old High German wîch ), from Latin vīcus “village, estate”; cognate with Greek oîkos, woîkos “house”

Word History and Origins

Origin of wick¹

Old English wīc; related to -wich in place names, Latin vīcus, Greek oîkos

Origin of wick²

dialect variant of quick alive

Origin of wick³

Old English weoce; related to Old High German wioh, Middle Dutch wēke (Dutch wiek )

Example Sentences

The most prominent partnership was one announced last month between New York-based AI startup Runway and “John Wick” and “Hunger Games” studio Lionsgate.

From Los Angeles Times

Meanwhile, Hunger Games and John Wick studio Lionsgate made a deal last week with AI firm Runway to create tools based on its massive archive of film and TV.

From BBC

My colleague Julia Wick once did the arithmetic and calculated that these 14 acres represent less than one-thousandth of what the Valley possessed at its peak.

From Los Angeles Times

Lionsgate, the studios behind series such as The Hunger Games and John Wick, will benefit by being able to use the resulting AI technology in future productions.

From BBC

Wick in Caithness experienced a temperature of 22.3C - a seasonal high for the time of year according to records going back to 1930.

From BBC