Stick of wax with a wick in the middle.
A loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame.
Синонимы
Examples for "wick "
Examples for "wick "
1 The wick had been trimmed, and Cartwright was in for the evening.
2 She raised the chimney and lit the lamp, and regulated the wick .
3 Here the socket of the candle dropped, and the wick went out.
4 Buck Daniels ran to the big lamp and turned up the wick .
5 The wick dips into the clear molten wax and the flame falters.
1 This sets the stage for an easy start to taper in December.
2 Only one taper burned in the third chamber; there were no windows.
3 Thank a calm euro zone and the prospect of a Fed taper .
4 Objectives: To determine which factors were associated with oliguria during HC taper .
5 The image of the taper and the torch recurred to her mind.
6 That probably means the Fed will not announce a taper in December.
7 In fact, the watch bands taper downward specifically to avoid wider-than-necessary dimensions.
8 The light came from a taper which was burning in one corner.
9 World financial markets are on tenterhooks over when the Fed will taper .
10 Maître Voigt lighted a taper , and led the way into the room.
11 But then Lily was in truth no such slight taper as that.
12 Of the remains of the fatal taper I had myself carefully disposed.
13 While the wick of the taper was burning up, he listened again.
14 The drooping fingers of the Saviour taper delicately, with long almond-shaped nails.
15 He took the taper from her hand, and turned to light it.
16 The modern wax - taper is an evolutionary form of this type of light-source.
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Об этом термине Глагол
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