stick
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/stɪk/
English
Definitions
noun
- An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.“Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick.”
- Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
- A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
verb
- To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.“to stick type”
- To furnish or set with sticks.
noun
- The traction of tires on the road surface.
- The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
verb
- To become or remain attached; to adhere.“The tape will not stick if it melts.”
- To jam; to stop moving.“The lever sticks if you push it too far up.”
- To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- To persist.“His old nickname stuck.”
adjective
- Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.“A sticker type of glue. The stickest kind of gum.”
noun
- Criticism or ridicule.
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