Definition of stick to in English English dictionary
- To persist; to continue (to use, do, etc.)
If you stick to your studies, you will continue to improve.
- Continue or confine oneself to doing, using, or practising
- stick to firmly; "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?"
- keep to; "Stick to your principles"; "stick to the diet
- If you stick to rules, you do what they say you must do. Obviously we are disappointed but the committee could do nothing less than stick to the rules Police must stick to the highest standards if they are to win back public confidence
- If you stick to something, you continue doing, using, saying, or talking about it, rather than changing to something else. Perhaps he should have stuck to writing
- If you stick to a promise, agreement, decision, or principle, you do what you said you would do, or do not change your mind. Immigrant support groups are waiting to see if he sticks to his word But one problem is that few people can stick to a diet for long. to stick to your guns: see gun = stick by
- If you stick to something or someone when you are travelling, you stay close to them. There are interesting hikes inland, but most ramblers stick to the clifftops
- keep to; "Stick to your principles"; "stick to the diet"
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- A member of the Official IRA
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- The Chapman Stick, an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman
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- A cigarette of tobacco or marijuana
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- A manual transmission or vehicle equipped with a manual transmission
I grew up driving a stick, but many people my age didn’t.
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- To jam; to stop moving
The lever sticks if you push it too far up.
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- The traction of tires on the road surface
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- A memory stick
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- The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc
His stroke with that two-piece stick is a good as anybody's in the club.
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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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- The short whip carried by a jockey
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- An unsocial person, particularly one who is either withdrawn or stuck-up
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- A group of paratroopers who jump together
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- A cudgel or truncheon, especially one carried by police or guards
As soon as the fight started, the guards came in swinging their sticks.
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- A line of soldiers
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- A quantity of eels, usually 25
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- A two by four, the standard board used in constructing a frame house
I found enough sticks in dumsters at construction sites to build my shed.
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- Of snow, to remain frozen on landing
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- A cluster of bombs dropped in quick succession from an aircraft in order to spread them over a target area
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- A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type
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- A standard rectangular piece of chewing gum
Don’t hog all that gum, give me a stick!.
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- A piece of furniture
We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture.
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- Use of the stick to control the aircraft
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- Vigorous driving of a car; gas
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- To strike someone with a stick
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- A negative stimulus or a punishment
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- The clarinet. (more often: liquorice stick)
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- The game of pool, or an individual pool game
He shoots a mean stick of pool.
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- To remain loyal; to remain firm
Just stick to your strategy, and you will win.
- stick
- Any roughly cylindrical piece of a substance
US Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick. (Also ... available in a ... stick.).
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- See to stick with
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- To propagate plants by cuttings
Stick cuttings from geraniums promptly.
- stick
- Approximately one gram of marijuana wrapped in a small cylinder of aluminium foil
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- A person having the stated quality
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- Corporal punishment; beatings
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- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size
What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A stick.
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- A small branch from a tree or bush
The nest was made out of sticks.
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- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick
US My parents bought us each a stick of cotton candy.
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- A fighter pilot
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- To press into with a sharp point
The balloon will pop when I stick this pin in it.
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- To perform (a landing) perfectly
Once again, the world champion sticks the dismount.
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- The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint
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- A thin person; particularly a flat-chested woman
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- Criticism or ridicule
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- An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches
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- To persist
His old nickname stuck.
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- A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard
Wax your stick and head down to that spot.
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- The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole
His wedge shot bounced off the stick and went in the hole.
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- The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick
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- An assistant planted in the audience
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- A small rectangular block of shortening (butter, margarine, lard, etc.) in weighing one quarter pound and containing by volume one half cup
The recipe calls for half a stick of butter.
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- The control column of an aircraft. By convention a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to that used in automobiles, is also called the "stick"
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- A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse
Tripping with the stick is a violation of the rules.
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- Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions
I grew up driving stick, but many people my age didn't.
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- Effort, vigour, energy, intensity, in a positive or negative sense
He really gave that digging some stick could be said of someone digging a garden. She really gave that bully some stick could be used of a mother berating a bully. Give it some stick said as encouragement.
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- To become attached; to adhere
The tape will not stick if it melts.
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- A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick
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- A cane or walking stick to aid in walking
I don’t need my stick to walk, but it’s helpful.
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- To place, set down (quickly or carelessly)
Stick your bag over there and come with me.
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- Vigor; spirit
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- To glue; to adhere
Stick the label on the jar.
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- be or become fixed; "The door sticks--we will have to plane it
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- cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface; "stick some feathers in the turkey before you serve it"
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- fasten with or as with pins or nails; "stick the photo onto the corkboard"
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- threat of a penalty; "the policy so far is all stick and no carrot" implement consisting of a length of wood; "he collected dry sticks for a campfire"; "the kid had a candied apple on a stick" a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane a small thin branch of a tree saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill" pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed; "He stuck the needle into his finger" pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument; "he stuck the cloth with the needle" cause to protrude or as if to protrude; "stick one's hand out of the window"; "stick one's nose into other people's business" fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something; "stick the corner of the sheet under the mattress" fasten with or as with pins or nails; "stick the photo onto the corkboard" fasten with an adhesive material like glue; "stick the poster onto the wall" cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface; "stick some feathers in the turkey before you serve it" endure; "The label stuck to her for the rest of her life" be or become fixed; "The door sticks--we will have to plane it
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- fasten with an adhesive material like glue; "stick the poster onto the wall"
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- endure; "The label stuck to her for the rest of her life"
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- To be prevented from going farther; to stop by reason of some obstacle; to be stayed
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- fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something; "stick the corner of the sheet under the mattress"
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- {n} a small piece of wood, small tree, staff
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- {v} to fasten, fix, adhere, stop, scruple, stab, kill
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- Chapman Stick or The Stick, electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman
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- A snowboard
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- A surfboard
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- 1 another name for the flagstick or pin 2 (also "stiff, stoney") to put a shot close to the hole Example: My approach shot hit the stick 2 I just knew she was going to stick it/knock it stiff/hit it stoney
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- 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
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- To cause to stick; to bring to a stand; to pose; to puzzle; as, to stick one with a hard problem
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- A line of infantry in a landing craft (usually 2 per craft)
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- To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand
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- wand or stick, about one finger long, that is attached to a sticksboard Each stick represents a position in a row See also Storage stick
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- Such moldings are said to be stuck
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- 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
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- See under Composing
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- implement consisting of a length of wood; "he collected dry sticks for a campfire"; "the kid had a candied apple on a stick"
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- To be embarrassed or puzzled; to hesitate; to be deterred, as by scruples; to scruple; often with at
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- Same as "sled," which is another word for snowboard
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- It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc
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- To set; to fix in; as, to stick card teeth
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- cause to protrude or as if to protrude; "stick one's hand out of the window"; "stick one's nose into other people's business"
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- To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale; as, to stick an apple on a fork
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- a stickshift
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- The Microphone
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- informal terms of the leg; "fever left him weak on his sticks"
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- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill"
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- Piece of short pulpwood (22)
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- A composing stick
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- To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat
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- 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
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- be loyal to; "She stood by her husband in times of trouble"; "The friends stuck together through the war"
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- To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation
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- A composing stick is a hand instrument into which a compositor places the letters to be set up Each row or line of letters is pushed home and held in place by a movable setting rule, against which the thumb presses When a stick is full, the matter set up is transferred to a galley (q v ), and from the galley it is transferred to the chase (q v ) Called a stick because the compositor sticks the letters into it
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- To stick a landing is to land, and remain standing without requiring a step A proper stick position is with legs bent, shoulders above hips, arms forward Sticking consistently takes regular practice
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- a small thin branch of a tree
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- pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed; "He stuck the needle into his finger"
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- The control column of an aircraft
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- A derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or stupid; as, an odd stick; a poor stick
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- stay put (in a certain place); "We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati"; "Stay put in the corner here!"; "Stick around and you will learn something!"
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- Checking: an attempt to dislodge the ball from the opponent's crosse (stick)
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- approximately one gram of marijuana wrapped in aluminium foil in a small cylinder
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- {f} jab or poke with a pointed object; affix, fasten; cause to adhere; adhere; put in a particular place; remain loyal; endure; be unable to move; protrude, project
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- {i} branch cut or broken from a tree or bush; long slender piece of wood; something which resembles a stick; staff, walking stick
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- To inject
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- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
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- 1 another name for the flagstick or pin 2 (aka: "stiff", "stoney") to put a shot close to the hole Example: "My approach shot hit the stick " 2 "I just knew she was going to stick it "
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- threat of a penalty; "the policy so far is all stick and no carrot"
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- Term applied to several bombs released in ripple sequence with a preselected interval between each bomb This interval is usually 60 milliseconds or more; the complete release can then be expressed as a "stick length" (a stick length of 240 milliseconds, etc ) Also referred to as "Stik"
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- To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick; as, to stick type
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- To set with something pointed; as, to stick cards
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- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane a small thin branch of a tree saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill"
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- A lefty stick is held with the left hand lower on the stick The blade curves in from the left toward the right Many right-handed players use a lefty stick Right Wingers playing with lefty sticks are playing "off-wing" Vice-versa for a righty stick
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- To adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall
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- A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab
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- When any part of the head of the Tomahawk is touching the face of the Target, scores 1 point (a leaning or hanging Hawk counts)
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- On Wednesday morning when walking to Morning Devotions in the Amphitheater, every member of Choir School has to pick up a wooden stick This stick is going to be with you all day long so don't go lugging around with half a tree!
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- fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"
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- A stick or sticky, a member of the Official IRA
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- A scroll (rolled around a stick)
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- be or become fixed; "The door sticks--we will have to plane it"
- stick
- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
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- A cane to aid in walking (also called walking stick)
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- A piece of chewing gum
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- be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
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- pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument; "he stuck the cloth with the needle"
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- be a devoted follower or supporter; "The residents of this village adhered to Catholicism"; "She sticks to her principles"
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- A lacrosse stick
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- 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
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- A relatively long, thin piece of wood
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- A hockey stick
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- To penetrate with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to stab; hence, to kill by piercing; as, to stick a beast
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- stick to firmly; "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?"
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- one made of wood is used
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- Anything shaped like a stick; as, a stick of wax
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- When two players challenge for a ball and kick at the same time meeting the ball simultaneously to create a "thud" and the offensive player is stopped from continuing forward Used to tell a player "Great stick "
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- To cause to penetrate; to push, thrust, or drive, so as to pierce; as, to stick a needle into one's finger
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- The field hockey stick is made of wood or fiberglass and has a curved head that is flat on one side and rounded on the other Only the flat side of the stick can be used to strike the ball
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- A small, roughly cylindrical form of material
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- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere"
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- 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
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- Tire traction "The cars are sticking to the track "
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- The pole in the centre of the green with a flag attached