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the unsung thread that turns wax into light and ignores the credit
means The thin cord or strip of fibrous material in a candle or lamp that draws up fuel by capillary action and sustains the flame.
from From Old English 'weoce,' the wick of a lamp or candle, with cousins in Old High German 'wioh' and Dutch 'wiek.' The further roots are murky — the Germanic family is clear, but where it ultimately came from is uncertain. Worth noting: the 'wick' meaning 'town' or 'dwelling' (as in Warwick, Gatwick) is a completely separate word, borrowed from Latin 'vicus,' so a candle's wick and a village's -wick are strangers who happen to share spelling.
- capillary action
- draws liquid fuel upward without any pump
- mushrooming
- untrimmed wicks bloom carbon heads and smoke
- old english
- originally meant a bundle of twisted fibers
- self-trimming
- modern braided wicks curl to burn their own tips
- witch hazel
- unrelated, despite the deceptively similar sound
for instance
john wick — fictional assassin character played by keanu reeves in the 2014 film and subsequent sequels