verb
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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.
verb
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To become or remain attached; to adhere.
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The tape will not stick if it melts.
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To jam; to stop moving.
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The lever sticks if you push it too far up.
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To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
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To persist.
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His old nickname stuck.
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Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
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To remain loyal; to remain firm.
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Just stick to your strategy, and you will win.
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To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
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To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
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To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
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To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
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Stick the label on the jar.
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To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
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Stick your bag over there and come with me.
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To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
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The balloon will pop when I stick this pin in it.
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To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
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to stick an apple on a fork
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To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
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To perform (a landing) perfectly.
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Once again, the world champion sticks the dismount.
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To propagate plants by cuttings.
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Stick cuttings from geraniums promptly.
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(joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
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To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.
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to stick somebody with a hard problem
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To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
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To have sexual intercourse with.
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To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
noun
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A sequence or arrangement of drum notes to be played with drumsticks.
Examples of sticking in a Sentence
I planned on sticking close anyway.
You're sticking around town, right?
Snow fell in lazy, fat flakes, sticking to his clothes and hair.
Keeping along the long wall, she inched her way upward, sticking to the shadows.
Thanks for sticking your neck out.
He was definitely sticking around.
If you don't plan on sticking around long, you're going to find yourself in a bind.
Convinced from the first of his disinterestedness and sincerity, and impressed by his penetrating shrewdness and his instinctive faculty of always seizing the main point and sticking to it, his hearers soon felt an absolute confidence in the deputy from Zala county.
Sticking her arms through what passed for an armhole, she shrugged into it, struggling to zip it up in the back.
His instincts warned him to hurry, that he had a reason to grab Hannah and go instead of sticking around to see what was causing the activity.
Touching him was like sticking her finger in a light socket.
A distinctive feature is the position assumed in resting; Culex has a humpbacked attitude, while in Anopheles the proboscis, head and body are in a straight line, and in many species inclined at an angle to the wall, the tail sticking outwards.
To do this deftly, the hands should be plunged from time to time in dry ashes, to prevent the clay from sticking to them.
There are nearly always three lightning conductors sticking up at the top of the tower.
The old railroad lines that had been used to reinforce the steep embankment can still be seen sticking out from the remains.
The original Dawn of the Dead was a high watermark... suburban ennui of brain- dead shoppers sticking to what they're.. .
Good on you for sticking to this Les - don't let her just fob you off.
He is not marrying, not fitting in, not settling down, not sticking around to organize funerals.
When SB's sticking got far too interesting, we went and watched Chris pruning the grape [rather late] .
My only grumbles are him sticking to Tory spending rules for the first 2 years.
This extra stuff sticking out was not the tail and nose sections of a conventional jetliner, but more like booms and pipes.
The assembly service is the price for sticking 1 label onto a cassette, or putting 1 cassette into a box.
One was black as ebony, with little bunches of fuzzy hair tied with shoestrings sticking out all over her head like corkscrews.
He had a feeling she wasn't sticking around and wondered what had alerted her.
She has an uncanny way of sticking to pertinent details.
She'd traveled nonstop, sticking to narrow country roads and the forest to avoid both people and zones marked as having any sort of radiation fallout from the nuke strikes.
She turned the fire off and poured a little water into the cast-iron skillet to keep it from sticking.
But being anywhere near him was like sticking her hand in a light socket.
A scraper is provided to keep the disk clean and prevent sticking.
According to the duchess she had "a certain knack of sticking to what had been dictated to her to a degree often very disagreeable, and without the least sign of understanding or judgment."
Later on, Joseph II., sticking to his point, wanted to settle the house of Bavaria in the Netherlands; but Louis XVI.
Might there be a psychic; some fortune-telling soothsayer clairvoyant oracle bitch sticking her witch-nose into my business?
He's so pissed at me over sticking up for you at the debate, I'm not sure he'd sleep with me if I let him.
It was bigger and darker than a normal freckle, but it wasn't a mole and certainly didn't have a hair sticking out from it.
Dean said as the others returned to work, Rita shaking her head in disgust and Harrigan trying to talk on the phone by sticking a finger in one ear.
Logic kept sticking its nose in Dean's subconscious, prodding consideration of wider possibilities.
I think the vets have far more to offer livestock agriculture in the 21st century than sticking our hands up cows backsides.
Then trouble, a huge berm with a large mound sticking out some 1/2 way around.
How can I stop grass cuttings from sticking to the bottom of my green-lidded garden waste bin?
Then there is the enormous belt driven blower sticking out the side.
In the third, Atkinson again came out attacking with Elriani finding success driving to length then sticking a trickle boast or straight drop.
Natalie is immensely grateful to Frances for sticking up for her and offers her money to become a regular bodyguard.
Stir in 1and half tbsp caster sugar (fine sugar) and simmer gently for 10 minutes or so stirring to prevent sticking.
It has black plastic, lots of knobs, dials and buttons, and pieces of shiny chrome sticking out at surprising angles.
Well I see your molly coddled child STILL has the sticking out ears just like you then!
Not coz Ur sticking to rules, but coz ur not compromising with the people who dont let you down.
After her breakfast, feeling a bit crafty, SB dragged some bits out of the craft cupboard and started gluing and sticking.
Even light sticking spurs this cymbal to swell with a deep bass rumble and many, many decibels.
The picture above shows a worker in close-up, with large dollops of pollen sticking to the hind legs.
For example, could there be some invisible threads sticking out from the gel surface to push the microspheres away?