Stick
[stɪk]
Definition
(noun.) threat of a penalty; 'the policy so far is all stick and no carrot'.
(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'.
(noun.) a long thin implement resembling a length of wood; 'cinnamon sticks'; 'a stick of dynamite'.
(noun.) a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane.
(noun.) a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball.
(noun.) a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine.
(noun.) a small thin branch of a tree.
(verb.) saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; 'They stuck me with the dinner bill'; 'I was stung with a huge tax bill'.
(verb.) pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed; 'He stuck the needle into his finger'.
(verb.) pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument; 'he stuck the cloth with the needle'.
(verb.) fasten with or as with pins or nails; 'stick the photo onto the corkboard'.
(verb.) fasten with an adhesive material like glue; 'stick the poster onto the wall'.
(verb.) cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface; 'stick some feathers in the turkey before you serve it'.
(verb.) endure; 'The label stuck to her for the rest of her life'.
(verb.) be or become fixed; 'The door sticks--we will have to plane it'.
(verb.) fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something; 'stick the corner of the sheet under the mattress'.
Editor: Ricky--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.
(v. t.) Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick.
(v. t.) Anything shaped like a stick; as, a stick of wax.
(v. t.) A derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or stupid; as, an odd stick; a poor stick.
(v. t.) A composing stick. See under Composing. It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is used.
(v. t.) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
(n.) To penetrate with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to stab; hence, to kill by piercing; as, to stick a beast.
(n.) To cause to penetrate; to push, thrust, or drive, so as to pierce; as, to stick a needle into one's finger.
(n.) To fasten, attach, or cause to remain, by thrusting in; hence, also, to adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing; as, to stick a pin on the sleeve.
(n.) To set; to fix in; as, to stick card teeth.
(n.) To set with something pointed; as, to stick cards.
(n.) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale; as, to stick an apple on a fork.
(n.) To attach by causing to adhere to the surface; as, to stick on a plaster; to stick a stamp on an envelope; also, to attach in any manner.
(n.) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick; as, to stick type.
(n.) To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such moldings are said to be stuck.
(n.) To cause to stick; to bring to a stand; to pose; to puzzle; as, to stick one with a hard problem.
(n.) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
(v. i.) To adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall.
(v. i.) To remain where placed; to be fixed; to hold fast to any position so as to be moved with difficulty; to cling; to abide; to cleave; to be united closely.
(v. i.) To be prevented from going farther; to stop by reason of some obstacle; to be stayed.
(v. i.) To be embarrassed or puzzled; to hesitate; to be deterred, as by scruples; to scruple; -- often with at.
(v. i.) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
Inputed by Lewis
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Rod, switch, birch.[2]. Club, bludgeon.[3]. Cane, staff.[4]. Piece of timber.[5]. Stab, thrust.
v. a. [1]. Pierce, penetrate, transfix, stab, spear, gore.[2]. Insert, thrust, infix.[3]. Attach, paste, glue, cement.[4]. Fix (on something pointed).
v. n. [1]. Adhere, cleave, cling, hold, stay fixed.[2]. Abide, remain, stop, stay, hold fast, be infixed.[3]. Hesitate, waver, doubt, scruple, stickle, be embarrassed, be puzzled.
Editor: Xenia
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hold, adhere, cleave,[See ANNALS],[See ANNALS]
Typist: Nola
Definition
n. a small shoot or branch cut off a tree: a staff or walking-stick: anything in the form of a stick a cudgel: a piece of printers' furniture used to lock up a form in a chase a printer's composing-stick: a stiff stupidly obstinate person.—v.t. to furnish or set with sticks: to arrange in a composing-stick.—n. Stick′-in′sect a walking-stick or phasmid insect.
v.t. to stab: to thrust in: to fasten by piercing: to fix in: to set with something pointed: to cause to adhere.—v.i. to hold to: to remain: to stop: to be hindered: to hesitate to be embarrassed or puzzled: to adhere closely in affection:—pa.t. and pa.p. stuck.—ns. Stick′er one who kills pigs &c.: one who sticks to anything; Stick′ing the act of stabbing; Stick′ing-place the point at which a thing sticks or stays; Stick′ing-plas′ter an adhesive plaster for closing wounds; Stick′-in-the-mud an old fogy; Stick′it-min′ister (Scot.) a licentiate who never gets a pastoral charge.—Stick at to hesitate: to persist at; Stick by to be firm in supporting to adhere closely to; Stick out to be prominent project; Stick pigs to hunt wild hogs on horseback and transfix them with the spear; Stick to to persevere in holding to; Stick up to stand up: to waylay and plunder as a mail-coach by bushrangers; Stick up for to speak or act in defence of.—Be stuck on (U.S.) to be enamoured of; Stuck up conceited.
Typed by Deirdre
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of sticks, is an unlucky omen.
To see a walking stick in a dream, foretells you will enter into contracts without proper deliberation, and will consequently suffer reverses. If you use one in walking, you will be dependent upon the advice of others. To admire handsome ones, you will entrust your interest to others, but they will be faithful.
Checker: Melanie
Examples
- At last he was happily got down without any accident, and then he began to beat Mr. Guppy with a hoop-stick in quite a frantic manner. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A lame foreigner with a stick. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Or I could turn you a rare handle for that crutch-stick, if it belongs to him you call your father. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In my haste I thrust the key into my pocket, and dropped my stick while I was chasing Teddy, who had run up the curtain. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- To lay down on the rocks, a stick, or any straight thing to guide my hand, exactly in the line of the beacon and the flagstaff. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Catherine wore hobnailed boots and a cape and carried a stick with a sharp steel point. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Each of those machines, with a boy as an attendant, will fold 2,700 envelopes in an hour, which is nearly the same number that an experienced workman can fold in a day with a folding stick. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I took four lessons, and then I stuck fast in a grammatical bog. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Probably he prepared the ground for his sowing with a pole, or a pole upon which he had stuck a stag's horn. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A pretty figure I'd be, wouldn't I, stuck behind that chap on a pillion? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Tom cast a hasty glance at the upper part of the house as he threw the reins to the hostler, and stuck the whip in the box. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Cedric hath another javelin stuck into his girdle, and thou knowest he does not always miss his mark. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The paper is now advanced the proper distance, and another row is stuck. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Primitivo brought the pine branches and Robert Jordan stuck them through the snow into the unfrozen earth, arching them over the gun from either side. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The surplus water is best removed by centrifugal pumps, since sand and sticks which would clog the valves of an ordinary pump are passed along without difficulty by the rotating wheel. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He was careful to cut the sticks of the proper width, so that the letters would not be too far apart when they should be used for printing. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- You've got no call to come an' talk about sticks o' these primises, as you woon't give a stick tow'rt mending. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- At the shore, where the ice has been partly forced out along the banks, it will be full of grass, leaves, pebbles and sticks, and presents a broken and frosted appearance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Long ages ago man had learned to make fire by patiently rubbing two sticks together, or by twirling a round one between his hands with its point resting upon a flat piece of wood. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He took the wood of the fence, the sticks of the vines, and hurried back with them to the furnace. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- At the power house the canal is furnished with a gate, and with cribs to keep back the obstructions, such as sticks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Laurie obediently threw himself down on the turf, and began to amuse himself by sticking daisies into the ribbons of Amy's hat, that lay there. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- In those days the natives around these forests (who were half Indian and half Negro) happened to find some of this juice sticking on the tree. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- So the poor knight is to be left sticking in the hedge, is he? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Well, I suppose it wants some years of sticking to, before you master it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was sticking out of him in all directions. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Is there summ'at deadly sticking to my clothes? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If I, as a honest tradesman, succeed in providing a jinte of meat or two, none of your not touching of it, and sticking to bread. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
Edited by Alison