If something sticks in your mind, you remember it for a long time. The incident stuck in my mind because it was the first example I had seen of racism in that country
If you stick something somewhere, you put it there in a rather casual way. He folded the papers and stuck them in his desk drawer Jack opened his door and stuck his head out
If you stick one thing to another, you attach it using glue, sticky tape, or another sticky substance. We just stuck it to the window He has nowhere to stick up his posters Stick down any loose bits of flooring
If something is sticking out from a surface or object, it extends up or away from it. If something is sticking into a surface or object, it is partly in it. They lay where they had fallen from the crane, sticking out of the water His hair sticks up in half a dozen directions. when we see her with lots of tubes and needles sticking into her little body
If one thing sticks to another, it becomes attached to it and is difficult to remove. Peel away the waxed paper if it has stuck to the bottom of the cake If left to stand, cooked pasta sticks together
If you stick a pointed object in something, or if it sticks in something, it goes into it or through it by making a cut or hole. Some punk stuck a knife in her last night The soldiers went at once to the mound and began to stick their bayonets through it The knife stuck in the ground at his feet
If something which can usually be moved sticks, it becomes fixed in one position. The needle on the dial went right round to fifty feet, which was as far as it could go, and there it stuck see also stuck