Wick
nounid
158046·updated May 18, 2026verified
a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
polysemous
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- taper
- plural
- Wicks
- possessive
- Wick's
- pluralpossessive
- Wicks'
Framework definitions
- §1
- a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
- §2
- any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action
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