Wick vs Wire - What's the difference?
wick | wire |
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.
* Spenser
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,
* 2009 , Ira Robbins, Kick It Till It Breaks , , ISBN 9780984253913,
To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
(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.
(curling) To strike (a stone) obliquely; to strike (a stationary stone) just enough that the played stone changes direction.
(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.
(British, dialect, chiefly, Yorkshire) Alive; lively; full of life; active; bustling; nimble; quick.
(British, dialect, chiefly, Yorkshire) Liveliness; life.
(British, dialect, chiefly, Yorkshire) The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
(British, dialect, chiefly, Yorkshire) A maggot.
A corner of the mouth or eye.
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 57:
(label) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
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, title= A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
A metal conductor that carries electricity.
A fence made of usually barbed wire.
(label) A finish line of a racetrack.
(label) A telecommunication wire or cable
(label) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
(label) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
(label) A deadline or critical endpoint.
(label) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
* 1934 , edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 222:
To string on a wire.
To equip with wires for use with electricity.
To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.
(label) To send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominately by telegraph.
To make someone tense or psyched up.
(label) To install eavesdropping equipment.
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
As nouns the difference between wick and wire
is that 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 or wick can be (british|dialect|chiefly|east anglia|and|essex) a farm, especially a dairy farm or wick can be (british|dialect|chiefly|yorkshire) liveliness; life or wick can be a corner of the mouth or eye while wire is (label) metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.As verbs the difference between wick and wire
is that wick is to convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action while wire is to fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.As an adjective wick
is (british|dialect|chiefly|yorkshire) alive; lively; full of life; active; bustling; nimble; quick.wick
English
(wikipedia wick)Etymology 1
(etyl) weke, wicke; (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Trim the wick fairly short, so that the flame does not smoke.
- But true it is, that when the oil is spent / The light goes out, and wick is thrown away.
p. 17:
- His wick was stone stiff.
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 wickVerb
(en verb)- The fabric wicks perspiration away from the body.
- The moisture slowly wicked through the wood.
Etymology 2
From earlier (etyl) wik, .Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Present in compounds (meaning “village”, “jurisdiction”, or “harbour”), as, bailiwick, Warwick, Greenwick, , etc., also -wich .Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)- 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
Noun
- I niver knew such an a thing afore in all my wick . — Ashby, 12 July 1875
- Fed close? Why, it's eaten into t' hard wick . (spoken of a pasture which has been fed very close)
Etymology 4
From (etyl) vik.Noun
(en noun)- She considered him. A fiery droplet in the wick of her mouth considered him.
References
* "wick" inBBC - 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,
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English
Noun
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
Synonyms
* (thin thread of metal ): cable, steel wire, thread * (metal conductor that carries electricity ): conducting wire * (fencing made of usually barbed wire ): barbed wire * (informal: telegraph''): ''See telegraph * (informal: message transmitted by telegraph''): ''See telegram * (object used to keep the score in billiards) score stringDerived terms
* baling wire * barbed wire, barbed-wire * be on the wire * by wire * chicken wire * down to the wire * earthing wire * get one’s wires crossed]], [[have one's wires crossed, have one’s wires crossed * guy wire/guy-wire * haywire * live wire * piano wire * pull wires * pull the wires * razor wire * trawlwire * trip wire * under the wire * wire broadcasting * wire clippers * wire cutter * wire entanglement * wireform * wireless * wire recorder * wire rope * wire transfer * wiretap * wire wool * woven wire * wirySee also
* filament * hawser * cableVerb
(wir)- I could see him in his plane flying low over the river or a reservoir, dropping the club out with a chunk of lead wired to the shaft.
- I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.