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Stick   /stɪk/   Listen
Stick

verb
(past & past part. stuck, obs. sticked; pres. part. sticking)
1.
Put, fix, force, or implant.  Synonyms: deposit, lodge, wedge.  "Stick your thumb in the crack"
2.
Stay put (in a certain place).  Synonyms: stay, stay put, stick around.  "Stay put in the corner here!" , "Stick around and you will learn something!"
3.
Stick to firmly.  Synonyms: adhere, bind, bond, hold fast, stick to.
4.
Be or become fixed.
5.
Endure.
6.
Be a devoted follower or supporter.  Synonym: adhere.  "She sticks to her principles"
7.
Be loyal to.  Synonyms: adhere, stand by, stick by.  "The friends stuck together through the war"
8.
Cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface.
9.
Fasten with an adhesive material like glue.
10.
Fasten with or as with pins or nails.
11.
Fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something.
12.
Pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument.
13.
Pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed.
14.
Come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation.  Synonyms: adhere, cleave, cling, cohere.  "The label stuck to the box" , "The sushi rice grains cohere"
15.
Saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous.  Synonym: sting.  "I was stung with a huge tax bill"
16.
Be a mystery or bewildering to.  Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stupefy, vex.  "Got me--I don't know the answer!" , "A vexing problem" , "This question really stuck me"
noun
1.
An implement consisting of a length of wood.  "The kid had a candied apple on a stick"
2.
A small thin branch of a tree.
3.
A lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane.  Synonyms: control stick, joystick.
4.
A rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine.
5.
Informal terms for the leg.  Synonyms: peg, pin.
6.
A long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball.
7.
A long thin implement resembling a length of wood.  "A stick of dynamite"
8.
Marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking.  Synonyms: joint, marijuana cigarette, reefer, spliff.
9.
Threat of a penalty.



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"Stick" Quotes from Famous Books



... merchants to obtain jewels from that place; but now I found that they had stated nothing but the truth. For the fact is that the merchants come to this valley when the eagles have young ones, and throw great joints of meat into the valley; the diamonds, upon whose points they fall, stick to them; the eagles pounce upon those pieces of meat and carry them to their nests on the rocks to feed their young; the merchants at this time run to the nests, drive off the eagles, and take away the diamonds that stick ...
— The Elson Readers, Book 5 • William H. Elson and Christine M. Keck
... half-angrily. "If you say that again, Pink, I'll stick your head in a snow-bank. Her eyes are all right. They sure look good ...
— Rowdy of the Cross L • B.M. Sinclair, AKA B.M. Bower
... sense, anti-Semitism is a scientific stick used to beat the Jewish dog with. After impartial, impersonal scientific investigation, French and German scholars[11] demonstrated the racial inferiority of the Semite to the Aryan, enumerated the inherent Semitic qualities as greed, special aptitude ...
— The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 • Various
... the whole of it. I don't know now whether he is alive or dead." They say that my poor friend was on the point of falling to the ground, so grieved was he to hear this. Afterwards he took an ugly stick and began to beat the serving-girl with all his might, shouting out: "Ah! traitress, you have killed him for me then?" While Felice was cudgelling and she screaming, I was in a dream; I thought the old man held ropes in his hand, ...
— The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini • Benvenuto Cellini
... not mind helping to wash up; and, thus recalled from the days of the glorious past to the prosaic present, with all its misery and sin, I slid down into the boat and cleaned out the frying-pan with a stick of wood and a tuft of grass, polishing it up finally with George's ...
— Three Men in a Boa • Jerome K. Jerome


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