Word Finder - stick

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An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.

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Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.

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Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick.

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Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.

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A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.

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A stick-like item:

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Ability; specifically:

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A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)

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Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.

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A measure.

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To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.

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To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.

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to stick type

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To furnish or set with sticks.

I'll stick to biking.

He was going to stick by her because he made a vow.

Don't stick your hands outside the cage.

She dropped the stick and touched his shoulders.

I have the feeling we'll both stick out.

The trouble is that very few of their laborious explanations stick in the memory.

And the next time you pull a fast one like tonight, I'm going to personally stick you in an old folks home!

Seeing the bet, he decided he wanted to stick around long enough to observe a few more events in the women's futures.

He declined an invitation to join Fred and two neighborhood cronies for bowling, but had no desire to stick around the house all day either.

Why don't you just let us do our work and stick to answering our questions?

Next time she would tell him what time she would be back and stick to it.

You may take offense or not but I always stick to mother truth.

Why, when we were retreating from Sventsyani we dare not touch a stick or a wisp of hay or anything.

Not much beyond that, because, as she put it, she and Caleb didn't stick around 'cause the light went out almost at once.

I suppose letting someone into a guest's room is against a bunch of innkeeper laws but considering the circumstances, I'll stick my neck out.

Stick to the drinking Mr McGowan, there's a new pretender in town.

Maybe you'd like to stick around here for a while to see if they show up.

No. We have to stick around and run Econ.

She wasn.t about to stick around for this one.

I don't want to stick my nose in your cases but it's vital to my case that heat stays high between the mob and the suppliers.

Once we get the problem off our "to-do list" and stick it onto the computer's, we largely will be done.

Bread I at first made of pure Indian meal and salt, genuine hoe-cakes, which I baked before my fire out of doors on a shingle or the end of a stick of timber sawed off in building my house; but it was wont to get smoked and to have a piny flavor.

The huntsmen assembled with their booty and their stories, and all came to look at the wolf, which, with her broad-browed head hanging down and the bitten stick between her jaws, gazed with great glassy eyes at this crowd of dogs and men surrounding her.

The ball represented the terrestrial globe and the stick in his other hand a scepter.

I'm willing to stick my neck out but I can't until I get some answers from you.

She didn't know what the former deity sensed, but she wasn't going to stick around too long to find out.

A young couple whose life dream was owning a Bird Song look-alike learned from Fred the principals would be absent for the day and offered to stick around playing temporary innkeepers.

Something about how Originals stick together, Bianca said.

After dinner, when the footman handed coffee and from habit began with the princess, the prince suddenly grew furious, threw his stick at Philip, and instantly gave instructions to have him conscripted for the army.

Your child may want to jump right in and rock out with an electric guitar, but when it comes to learning how to play in the beginning it may be best to stick with an acoustic guitar.

She stared at the stick.

She sighed, resigned to the fact that she would stick out no matter what she wore.

Why don't you make up your mind and stick to just one?

Everybody would like to see Alfred Nota locked up but nobody has been able to make anything stick.

I think you ought to stick to reading mysteries instead of inventing them.

It says right here, 'One large patch, three small ones and a tube of gunk to stick 'em with.

We Originals gotta stick together.

The sistrum is played also by beating it with a metal stick.

The begging fakirs also go about with a lighted stick of incense in one hand, and holding out with the other an incense-holder (literally, "incense chariot"), into which the coins of the pious are thrown.

A deep porous bed in the upper layers is essential, and this should consist of fine particles which lie close to each other without any tendency to stick together and " puddle " after heavy showers.

Each stick was carefully mortised or tenoned by its stump, for I had borrowed other tools by this time.

Can you drive a stick?

As long as you stick to the things he has assigned to you, he has no reason to argue.

Mostly they stick with the original wildlife.

He glanced at the stick and shrugged.

Keaton kicked at a stick and made a mark in the gravel with the toe of his shoe.

In fact, he reached out and plucked the stick from the water.

No, but you were going to stick it out by yourself.

You don't have to beat me off with a stick.

You're saying that, instead of treating him like I do my teenage cousins, I should pretend I'm dealing with a five-year-old who's convinced his stick figure drawing is a masterpiece.