stick

Plural: sticks

Noun

• an implement consisting of a length of wood
  • "he collected dry sticks for a campfire"
  • "the kid had a candied apple on a stick"
• a small thin branch of a tree
• a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
• a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
• informal terms for the leg
  • "fever left him weak on his sticks"
• a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
• a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
  • "cinnamon sticks"
  • "a stick of dynamite"
• marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
• threat of a penalty
  • "the policy so far is all stick and no carrot"
• An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
• A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
• An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
• A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
• An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
• A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
• An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
• A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
• An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
• A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
• An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
• The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
• An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
• A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
• An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
• A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
• Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
• Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
• A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
• Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
• A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
• Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
• A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
• Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
• A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
• Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
• A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.
• Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
• The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
• A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
• A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
• A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
• A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
• Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
• A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
• The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
• A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
• Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
• A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
• An aircraft’s propeller.
• A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
• A joystick.
• A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
• A memory stick.
• A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
• A handgun.
• A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
• A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type.
• A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
• The clarinet.
• A stick-like item:
• A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
• A stick-like item:
• The short whip carried by a jockey.
• A stick-like item:
• A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
• A stick-like item:
• The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
• A stick-like item:
• The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
• A stick-like item:
• The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
• The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
• Ability; specifically:
• The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
• Ability; specifically:
• The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
• Ability; specifically:
• General hitting ability.
• Ability; specifically:
• The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
• A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
• A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
• A thin or wiry person; particularly a flat-chested woman.
• A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
• An assistant planted in the audience.
• A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
• A shill or house player.
• A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
• A stiff, stupidly obstinate person.
• A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
• A fighter pilot.
• A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
• A small group of (infantry) soldiers.
• Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
• A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward.)
• Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
• Corporal punishment, beatings; (figurative) criticism.
• Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
• Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
• Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
• Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
• A measure.
• An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches.
• A measure.
• A quantity of eels, usually 25.
• Any of the eight 16-character groups making up the 128 characters of the 7-bit ASCII character set.
• The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
• The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
• The traction of tires on the road surface.
• That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
• That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
• The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
• A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
• The customary length (according to the material used) of a piece or roll of textile fabrics imported from Flanders.
• Criticism or ridicule.

Verb

Verb Forms: sticked, sticking, sticks, stuck

• To pierce or impale with a pointed object.
• To support something with slender pieces of wood.
• put, fix, force, or implant
  • "stick your thumb in the crack"
• stay put (in a certain place)
  • "Stick around and you will learn something!"
• stick to firmly
• be or become fixed
  • "The door sticks--we will have to plane it"
• endure
• be a devoted follower or supporter
  • "She sticks to her principles"
• be loyal to
• cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
  • "stick some feathers in the turkey before you serve it"
• fasten with an adhesive material like glue
  • "stick the poster onto the wall"
• fasten with or as with pins or nails
  • "stick the photo onto the corkboard"
• fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something
  • "stick the corner of the sheet under the mattress"
• pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument
• pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed
• come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
• saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
• be a mystery or bewildering to
• 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 furnish or set with sticks.
• To hit with a stick.
• To become or remain attached; to adhere.
• To jam; to stop moving.
• To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
• To persist.
• Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
• To remain loyal; to remain firm.
• To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
• To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
• To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
• To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
• To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
• To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
• To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
• To stab.
• To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
• To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
• To perform (a landing or a shot) perfectly.
• To propagate plants by cuttings.
• To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
• To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.
• To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
• To have sexual intercourse with.
• To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.

Adj

• Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.

Examples

• A non-stick pan. A stick plaster.
• A sticker type of glue. The stickest kind of gum.
• As soon as the fight started, the guards came in swinging their sticks.
• Cigarettes are taxed at one dollar per stick.
• Don’t hog all that gum, give me a stick!
• Give it some stick!
• He managed to STICK a Z on a double letter, greatly boosting his score.
• He really gave that digging some stick.
• He shoots a mean stick of pool.
• He tried to STICK to his strategy, but a tempting triple-word score appeared.
• His old nickname stuck.
• His stroke with that two-piece stick is a good as anybody's in the club.
• His wedge shot bounced off the stick and went in the hole.
• I don’t need my stick to walk, but it’s helpful.
• I found enough sticks in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed.
• I found several good sticks in the brush heap.
• I grew up driving a stick, but many people my age didn't.
• I grew up driving stick, but many people my age didn't.
• Just stick to your strategy, and you will win.
• My parents bought us each a stick of cotton candy.
• Once again, the world champion sticks the dismount.
• Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick.
• She really gave that bully some stick.
• Stick cuttings from geraniums promptly.
• Stick the label on the jar.
• stick the landing
• Stick your bag over there and come with me.
• The balloon will pop when I stick this pin in it.
• The beaver's dam was made out of sticks.
• The lever sticks if you push it too far up.
• The recipe calls for half a stick of butter.
• The tape will not stick if it melts.
• to stick a needle into one's finger
• to stick an apple on a fork
• to stick somebody with a hard problem
• Tripping with the stick is a violation of the rules.
• We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture.
• What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A stick.

Synonyms

adhere, amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, bind, bond, cleave, cling, cohere, control stick, deposit, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, hold fast, joint, joystick, lodge, marijuana cigarette, mystify, nonplus, peg, perplex, pin, pose, puzzle, reefer, spliff, stand by, stay, stay put, stick around, stick by, stick to, sting, stupefy, vex, wedge, Formal terms, Informal and slang terms, Netflix and chill, abear, abide, aby, accept, agglutinate, allow, anchor, approach, astand, attach, bang, bauf, bear, bear up, bide, blin, boff, boggle, boink, bone, bonk, bop, bounce, brake, branch, breed, broach, brook, brush, bump nasties, bump uglies, cane, carry on, catch a dick, cease, chef, chib, ching, chive, cohabit, company, conglutinate, continue, copulate, couple, dance, deliberate, demur, desist, dip one's pen in someone's inkwell, discuss Uganda, dither, do it, do the deed, do the nasty, draw up, dree, eff, empierce, endure, engage in sex, engender, enthrill, exchange flesh, expletive deleted, falter, feck, fix, flagstick, foin, follow up, forbear, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, gearstick, get busy, get down, get freaky, get it, get it on, get jiggy, get laid, get lucky, get one's dick wet, get one's end away, get one's freak on, get one's groove on, get one's leg over, get one's oats, get physical, get some, get the dirty water off one's chest, glue, go all the way, go along with, gore, graft the forked tree, gride, grind to a halt, gum, halt, hang in there, haul one's ashes, have intimate relations, have it away, have it off, have marital relations, have sex, have sexual relations, hesitate, hide the salami, hide the sausage, hide the wienie, hike the Appalachian Trail, hold, hold on, hold out, hold the line, hold up, hook up, hover, hug, hump, immobilize, impale, intercourse, item, jab, jam, jig-jig, job, juke, kebab, keep a stiff upper lip, keep trying, keep up, kindling, knifecrime, knock boots, know, know someone in the biblical sense, lancinate, lay pipe, lay the pipe, leave off, licorice stick, liquorice stick, live with, make it, make love, make out, make the beast with two backs, make whoopee, mammer, mate, meddle, ming, pass, paste, penetrate, persevere, persist, piece, pierce, pigstick, pink, pipe, pipe down, pitch, plant, play, play hide the sausage, plod, plug, plug away, poach, pocket, pop, pouch, prick, puncture, put up with, rail, resist, rest, rice, ride, rock and roll, roger, roll around, root, run through, screw, scruple, see someone's etchings, set down, settle, sex, shag, shank, share a bed, shelve, shill, shiv, show someone one's etchings, slap bellies, sleep together, soldier on, spear, speet, splash, stab, stake, stall, stand, stand shilly-shally, stay the course, stay the distance, stich, stick, stick by one's guns, stick it out, stick to one's guns, stick together, stick with, stick with it, stickshift, stint, stob, stog, stomach, stop, strain, stump, suffer, swallow, swike, swither, take, take sitting down, thole, thrust, thwart, tolerate, train, transfix, transpierce, tumble, twig, two by four, undergang, undergo, walking stick, waver, yerk

Antonyms

dislodge, move

Related Words

bone, handle, sceptre, stick in one's craw, stick one's neck out, stick one's oar in, stick out like a sore thumb, stick to one's guns, stick up for, stick-sling, stick-up, string, stuck up, tree, tube

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