Synonym: taper. Similar words: wicked, twice, sandwich, think twice, pick, lick, dick, tick. Meaning: [wɪk] 
n. 1. any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action 2. a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame.
n. 1. any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action 2. a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame. 
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1. It's very hard to turn the wick up and down.
2. Cotton textiles wick away perspiration.
3. She's always talking about herself—she gets on my wick.
4. The boss gets on my wick with his everlasting complaints about timekeeping. And he thinks nothing of rolling up to the office at ten o'clock himself.
5. It gets right on my wick.
6. Wick eschewed the spotlight before Christmas last year.
7. He was at school at Peterhead and Wick academies.
8. Ultimately, it just gets on your wick.
9. Twice, its wick collapses in wax.
10. Just out of college in the early 1970s, Wick worked as a commercial photographer and learned about lighting.
11. As semi-podunk semi-newspapers go, Wick Communications is something of a 900-pound gorilla.
12. The wick flickered hesitantly, then licked upward into a bright yellow tongue.
13. The dark rock of the Wick was splashed with kittiwake droppings - streaks of whitewash - from countless cup-nests.
14. The wick lay almost flat in a perilously small amount of wax.
15. Wick has the horses, and the deep pockets to pay them.
16. Love is like a match to a wick. It takes that right combination to strike a flame. But once the flame is there, it can either give warmth, die out or burn your world to ashes. Even kill you. It's how you sustain the flame, feed it, and moderate the amount of energy in balance. Anthony Liccione 
17. He drove through the night to Wick intending to cross the Pentland Firth in a small private plane.
18. The flame of the wick was blown down to touch the paraffin in the body of the lamp.
19. He took one of the smaller candles and, striking a match, held it to the wick.
20. A north-west gale had given us a good shaking up crossing from Peterhead to Wick resulting in a cracked cylinder head.
21. With shears from her basket, the Pysillian trimmed the wick, to steady it.
22. If you devote yourself to God, then He in turn will continually stay with you, as an eternal candle flame stays with a wick, feeding off the overflow of wax; yet reshaping into something better. Anthony Liccione
23. From a small, localised clientele, the company has now expanded into a customer base which stretches from Southampton to Wick.
24. This happened with fatal consequences in 1953 when the Lee Wick wall collapsed sending water shooting over the marshes to Jaywick.sentence dictionary
25. Ignorant of the fact that it was Battersea enamel she lit the wick beneath it, well soaked in methylated spirits.
26. On successive Sundays he would repeat this ritual until every wick was alight.
27. There's a removable shaped insole with a Cambrelle top to wick moisture away from the foot.
28. Last week Katie Wood was living in the lap of luxury up in Wick.
29. The down then insulates efficiently against loss of body heat, at the same time allowing body moisture to wick through.
30. The most famous is probably the delightful half-timbered Dunrobin, on the Highland line to Wick.