wick
n. 灯芯, 油绳
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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.
可数 不可数Trim the wick fairly short, so that the flame does not smoke.
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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.
Synonym of wicking (“the material of which wicks (etymology 1, noun sense 1) are made”).
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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.
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.
灯芯
灯心
炷
烛心
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Often in dip one's wick: the penis.
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A hamlet or village; also, a town.
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An enclosed piece of land; a close.
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A farm; specifically, a dairy farm.
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A maggot.
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Life; also, liveliness.
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The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
英国 可数 方言 不可数 植物学 商务Fed close? Why, it’s eaten into t’ hard wick.
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The part of the root of a weed that remains viable in the ground after inadequate digging prior to cultivation.
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A angle or corner; specifically, a corner of the eye or mouth.
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A angle or corner; specifically, a corner of the eye or mouth.
Short for wick-tooth (“a canine tooth”).
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A grove; also, a hollow.
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A shot where the played bowl or stone touches a stationary bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; a cannon.
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Synonym of port (“a narrow opening between other players' bowls or stones wide enough for a delivered bowl or stone to pass through”).
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An inlet, such as a creek or small bay.
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A basket made of wickers (“flexible branches or twigs of a plant such as willow woven together”); a creel.
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Wickers collectively; also, synonym of wickerwork (“wickers woven together”).
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Of a material (especially a textile): to convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
及物The fabric wicks perspiration away from the body.
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Of a material: to convey or draw off liquid by capillary action.
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Chiefly followed by through or up: of a liquid: to move by capillary action through a porous material.
不及物The moisture slowly wicked through the wood.
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To strike (a stationary bowl or stone) with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.
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To strike a stationary bowl or stone with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.
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Synonym of quick (“alive, living; also, active, lively”).
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The noun is derived from Middle English wek, weke, wicke (“fibrous cord drawing fuel to flame of a candle, etc.; material used to make this object”), from Old English wēoce (“wick”), from Proto-West Germanic *weukā (“flax bundle; wick”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to weave”). It has been suggested that noun etymology 1, noun sense 2 (“penis”) is derived from Hampton Wick, used as rhyming slang for prick. If so, that sense should be placed under etymology 2. The verb is derived from the noun. cognates * Dutch wiek (“wick; wing; blade, propeller”) * German Wieche (“wick; wisp”) * Swedish veke (“wick”) * West Frisian wjok, wjuk (“wing”)
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