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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



... egg. Use any extra whites that are on hand. Knead it thoroughly, adding more flour if necessary, until you have a paste you can roll out. Roll it as thin as an eighth of an inch. A long rolling pin is necessary, but any stick, well scrubbed and sand papered, will serve in lieu of ...
— The Italian Cook Book - The Art of Eating Well • Maria Gentile
... sharp beak for sucking the life out of other insects, and if you succeed in getting hold of it, it will stick that ...
— The Insect Folk • Margaret Warner Morley
... must have a fling at that cat,' cried that young gentleman, taking up a rather thick piece of stick from the bushes. 'Now see if I don't hit her right down from the wall,' he added; and he was just going to suit the action to the word, when he felt his arms pinioned from behind, and tried in vain ...
— Aunt Mary • Mrs. Perring
... reason, can see why an officer need not, should not, had better not, and generally does not, beat little boys. But an officer can beat little boys: and a Prussian officer will go on doing it until you take away the stick. Nothing could be more comic, if that is all, than the position of Prussians in Alsace: which they declare to be purely German and admit to be furiously French; so that they have to terrorise it by sabring anybody, including cripples. Again, any of us can see why an officer need not, should not, ...
— The Appetite of Tyranny - Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian • G.K. Chesterton
... I had rather tell you; and I came over to-day in part to do so: but you will see that the matter is one that should not be talked about," and he looked down on the floor, poking about on the carpet pattern with his stick, being unable any longer to meet the clear gaze of her ...
— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope


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