Wick

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil lamp, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel (such as melted tallow or wax, or oil) at one end, to be ignited at the other end to produce a flame.

   “Trim the wick fairly short, so that the flame does not smoke.”

2. isim Synonym of wicking (“the material of which wicks (etymology 1, noun sense 1) are made”).

   “There liues vvithin the very flame of loue / A kind of weeke or ſnufe that vvill abate it, […]”

3. isim Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action; specifically (medicine), a strip of gauze placed in a wound, etc., to absorb fluids.
4. isim Often in dip one's wick: the penis.

   “His wick was stone stiff.”

5. fiil Of a material (especially a textile): to convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.

   “The fabric wicks perspiration away from the body.”

6. fiil Of a material: to convey or draw off liquid by capillary action.
7. fiil Chiefly followed by through or up: of a liquid: to move by capillary action through a porous material.

   “The moisture slowly wicked through the wood.”

8. isim A hamlet or village; also, a town.

   “And by report, there vvere eight thouſand Gaules there ſlaine: the reſt abandoned the vvarre, and ſlipt every one into their ovvne vvickes and villages.”

9. isim A farm; specifically, a dairy farm.

   “Note a fearme [farm] in the North parts is called a Tacke, in Lancaſhire a Fermeholt, in Eſſex a Wike.”

10. isim An enclosed piece of land; a close.
11. sıfat Synonym of quick (“alive, living; also, active, lively”).

    “Well! yo must know I were in th' Infirmary for a fever, and times were rare and bad; and there be good chaps there to a man, while he's wick, whate'er they may be about cutting him up at after.”

12. isim A maggot.
13. isim The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.

    “Fed close? Why, it’s eaten into t’ hard wick.”

14. isim The part of the root of a weed that remains viable in the ground after inadequate digging prior to cultivation.
15. isim Life; also, liveliness.
16. isim A angle or corner; specifically, a corner of the eye or mouth.

    “Croudy hung his head to one side, and chuckled, and crowed, and laid on the ground with his staff; and always now and then cast a sly look-out at the wick of his eye to Pery.”

17. isim Short for wick-tooth (“a canine tooth”).
18. isim A grove; also, a hollow.
19. isim A shot where the played bowl or stone touches a stationary bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; a cannon.
20. isim Synonym of port (“a narrow opening between other players' bowls or stones wide enough for a delivered bowl or stone to pass through”).
21. fiil To strike (a stationary bowl or stone) with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.

    “He vvas the king of a' the Core, / To guard, or dravv, or vvick a bore, […]”

22. fiil To strike a stationary bowl or stone with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.
23. isim An inlet, such as a creek or small bay.

    “The power thou dost covet / O'er tempest and wave, / Shall be thine, thou proud maiden, / By beach and by cave,— / By stack and by skerry, by noup, and by voe, / By air and by wick, and by helyer and gio, / And by every wild shore which the northern winds know, / And the northern tides lave.”

24. isim A basket made of wickers (“flexible branches or twigs of a plant such as willow woven together”); a creel.

    “A captive fish still fills the anxious eyes / And willow-wicks lie ready for the prize; […]”

25. isim Wickers collectively; also, synonym of wickerwork (“wickers woven together”).
26. özel isim A town in north-eastern Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref ND3650).
27. özel isim A river in Caithness, Highland council area that flows through the town into Wick Bay on the North Sea; in full, the Wick River.
28. özel isim A hamlet in Luppitt parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref ST1703).
29. özel isim An eastern suburb of Bournemouth in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset (OS grid ref SZ1951).
30. özel isim A village in Wick and Abson parish, South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST7072).