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stick

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/stɪk/ English

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noun

  1. An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
  2. Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.“Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick.”
  3. Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
  4. A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.

verb

  1. To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
  2. To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.“to stick type”
  3. To furnish or set with sticks.

noun

  1. The traction of tires on the road surface.
  2. The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
  3. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.

verb

  1. To become or remain attached; to adhere.“The tape will not stick if it melts.”
  2. To jam; to stop moving.“The lever sticks if you push it too far up.”
  3. To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
  4. To persist.“His old nickname stuck.”

adjective

  1. Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.“A sticker type of glue. The stickest kind of gum.”

noun

  1. Criticism or ridicule.

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