"wickable" meaning in English

See wickable in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: wick + -able Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|wick|able}} wick + -able Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} wickable (not comparable)
  1. Able to wick, or convey by capillary action. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-wickable-en-adj-8h3T7d1b Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -able

Download JSON data for wickable meaning in English (1.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wick",
        "3": "able"
      },
      "expansion": "wick + -able",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "wick + -able",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "wickable (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -able",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1988, Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports, page 2421",
          "text": "The structure consists of porous wicks bonded to the two surfaces and a wickable core which provides liquid coupling between the two surfaces as well as load bearing capability.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Able to wick, or convey by capillary action."
      ],
      "id": "en-wickable-en-adj-8h3T7d1b",
      "links": [
        [
          "wick",
          "wick"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wickable"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wick",
        "3": "able"
      },
      "expansion": "wick + -able",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "wick + -able",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "wickable (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -able",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1988, Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports, page 2421",
          "text": "The structure consists of porous wicks bonded to the two surfaces and a wickable core which provides liquid coupling between the two surfaces as well as load bearing capability.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Able to wick, or convey by capillary action."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wick",
          "wick"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wickable"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (384852d and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.