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In transitive terms the difference between lock and wick

is that lock is to intertwine or dovetail while wick is to convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.

As nouns the difference between lock and wick

is that lock is something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination while wick is a bundle, twist, braid, or woven strip of cord, fabric, fibre/fiber, or other porous material in a candle, oil lamp, kerosene heater, or the like, that draws up liquid fuel, such as melted tallow, wax, or the oil, delivering it to the base of the flame for conversion to gases and burning; any other length of material burned for illumination in small successive portions.

As verbs the difference between lock and wick

is that lock is to become fastened in place while wick is to convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.

As a proper noun Lock

is {{surname|lang=en}.

As an adjective wick is

alive; lively; full of life; active; bustling; nimble; quick.

lock

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
  • * 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
    • "Give me the key," said my mother; and though the lock was very stiff, she had turned it and thrown back the lid in a twinkling.
  • *, chapter=13
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock .}}
  • A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
  • * 2005 , Karl Kopper, The Linux Enterprise Cluster
    • the application must first acquire a lock on a file or a portion of a file before reading data and modifying it.
  • A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
  • * 1846 , (William Makepeace Thackeray), Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
    • Here the canal came to a check, ending abruptly with a large lock .
  • The firing mechanism of a gun.
  • * 1837 , (Charles Dickens), (The Pickwick Papers)
    • "I never saw such a gun in my life," replied poor Winkle, looking at the lock , as if that would do any good.
  • Complete control over a situation.
  • * 2003 , (Charley Rosen), The Wizard of Odds
    • Even though he had not yet done so, Jack felt he had a lock on the game.
  • Something sure to be a success.
  • * 2004 , (Avery Corman), A perfect divorce
    • Brian thinks she's a lock to get a scholarship somewhere.
  • (label) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=Septembe 24, author=Ben Dirs, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania , passage=Ashton only had to wait three minutes for his second try, lock Louis Deacon setting it up with a rollocking line-break, before Romania got on the scoreboard courtesy of a penalty from fly-half Marin Danut Dumbrava. }}
  • A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
  • * (Thomas De Quincey) (1785-1859)
    • Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages
  • A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
    • (Dryden)
  • A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
  • A grapple in wrestling.
    • (Milton)
    Derived terms
    * alcolock * ankle lock * anti-lock * caps lock * flash lock * flat lock * flintlock * genlock * gridlock * leglock * liplock * lockfast * lock time * * lockbox * lockmaster * locknote * locksmithing * lockstep * matchlock * num lock * overlock * padlock * picklock * scroll lock * staircase lock * tide lock * time lock

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To become fastened in place.
  • *, chapter=13
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked , of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.}}
  • (label) To fasten with a lock.
  • (label) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
  • (label) To intertwine or dovetail.
  • To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
  • To furnish (a canal) with locks.
  • To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
    • Antonyms
    * unlock
    Derived terms
    * lock and load * lock horns * lock in * lock lips * lock on * lock out * lock up * lockable * relock * unlockable

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m). Cognate with (etyl) (m) (whence (etyl) (m)), (etyl) (m). It has been theorised that the word may be related to the (etyl) verb in its ancient meaning to curb .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • tuft or length of hair
  • *
    • If I consent to burn them, will you promise faithfully neither to send nor receive a letter again, nor a book (for I perceive you have sent him books), nor locks of hair, nor rings, nor playthings?
    Derived terms
    * daglock * elflock * forelock * goldilocks * sidelock

    Anagrams

    * (l) English ergative verbs English intransitive verbs English transitive verbs 1000 English basic words ----

    wick

    English

    (wikipedia wick)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) weke, wicke; (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bundle, twist, braid, or woven strip of cord, fabric, fibre/fiber, or other porous material in a candle, oil lamp, kerosene heater, or the like, that draws up liquid fuel, such as melted tallow, wax, or the oil, delivering it to the base of the flame for conversion to gases and burning; any other length of material burned for illumination in small successive portions.
    • Trim the wick fairly short, so that the flame does not smoke.
  • * Spenser
    • But true it is, that when the oil is spent / The light goes out, and wick is thrown away.
  • Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action; a strip of gauze placed in a wound to serve as a drain.
  • (curling) A narrow opening in the field, flanked by other players' stones.
  • (curling) A shot where the played stone touches a stationary stone just enough that the played stone changes direction.
  • (slang) Penis.
  • * 2008 , Marcus Van Heller, Nest of Vixens , ISBN 9781596549449, p. 17:
    • His wick was stone stiff.
  • * 2009 , Ira Robbins, Kick It Till It Breaks , , ISBN 9780984253913, p. 130:
    • Her laugh wasn't cruel in tone, but it cut through Husk like a scalpel, withering his wick even further.
    Derived terms
    * get on someone's wick

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
    • The fabric wicks perspiration away from the body.
  • (of a liquid) To traverse ( be conveyed by capillary action) through a wick or other porous material, as water through a sponge. Usually followed by through.
    • The moisture slowly wicked through the wood.
  • (curling) To strike (a stone) obliquely; to strike (a stationary stone) just enough that the played stone changes direction.

    • Etymology 2

    From earlier (etyl) wik, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, dialect, chiefly, East Anglia, and, Essex) A farm, especially a dairy farm.
  • (archaic) A village; hamlet; castle; dwelling; street; creek; bay; harbour; a place of work, jurisdiction, or exercise of authority.
    • Usage notes
    * Present in compounds (meaning “village”, “jurisdiction”, or “harbour”), as, bailiwick, Warwick, Greenwick, , etc., also -wich .
    Related terms
    * vicinity * villa * village * -wich

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (British, dialect, chiefly, Yorkshire) Alive; lively; full of life; active; bustling; nimble; quick.
    • as wick as an eel
    T' wickest young chap at ivver Ah seen.
    He's a strange wick bairn alus runnin' aboot.
    I'll skin ye wick ! (skin you alive)
    I thowt they was dead last back end but they're wick enif noo.
    "''Are you afraid of going across the churchyard in the dark?" "Lor' bless yer noä miss! It isn't dead uns I'm scar'd on, it's wick uns."
    I'll swop wi' him my poor dead horse for his wick .'' — ''Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England , page 210
    Related terms
    * wicken

    Noun

  • (British, dialect, chiefly, Yorkshire) Liveliness; life.
    • I niver knew such an a thing afore in all my wick . — Ashby, 12 July 1875
  • (British, dialect, chiefly, Yorkshire) The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
    • Fed close? Why, it's eaten into t' hard wick . (spoken of a pasture which has been fed very close)
  • (British, dialect, chiefly, Yorkshire) A maggot.

    • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) vik.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A corner of the mouth or eye.
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 57:
    • She considered him. A fiery droplet in the wick of her mouth considered him.

    References

    * "wick" in BBC - North Yorkshire - Voices - Glossary * Notes and Queries , Tenth Series, Vol. IV, 1905, page 170 * A. Smythe Palmer, Folk-Etymology, A Dictionary of verbal corruptions or words perverted in form or meaning, by false derivation or mistaken analogy , 1882, page xxii * John Christopher Atkinson, A glossary of the Cleveland dialect: explanatory, derivative, and critical , 1868, page 573 * W. D. Parish, Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect and Collection of Provincialisms in use in the County of Sussex, 1877, page 274-5