Определение sticks в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
- rural terrain, especially a woody area; any rural region
We had to drive way out into the sticks to visit that customer.
- plural form of stick
- rural terrain; any rural region
- plural of stick
- n Another name for Bamboos
- The tripod legs or the whole tripod
- Colloquial name for a measure of gelignite
- The metal bows used as a frame for the hood see also Hoops
- sticks and stones
- Evocative of the saying "sticks and stones may (or will) break my bones, but words (or names) will never hurt (or harm) me"
Jack Sparrow: Sticks and stones, love.
- sticks up
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stick up
- sticks and stone
- a general term for building materials
- sticks to it
- stays on mission, gives much effort to the accomplishment of a task
- sticks to the rules
- obeys the given laws
- French sticks
- plural form of French stick
- HE-double-hockey-sticks
- Hell
She knew Kate didn't have a snowball's chance in HE-Double hockey-sticks, with Angelina's Zee-Zee and Bud's Mister Dobson winning everything.
- Stick
- A member of the Official IRA
- Stick
- The Chapman Stick, an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman
- cancer sticks
- plural form of cancer stick
- carrots and sticks
- plural form of carrot and stick
- cleft sticks
- plural form of cleft stick
- cocktail sticks
- plural form of cocktail stick
- coup sticks
- plural form of coup stick
- death sticks
- plural form of death stick
- devil sticks
- A juggling prop consisting of two hand sticks (dowels) and a third larger, hour-glass shaped stick
- drum sticks
- plural form of drum stick
- fish sticks
- plural form of fish stick
If you like fish sticks, you must be a gay fish.
- glow sticks
- plural form of glow stick
- hockey sticks
- plural form of hockey stick
- in the sticks
- A long distance away from anywhere of importance
Tinyville is way out in the sticks. It takes ages to get into town.
- joss sticks
- plural form of joss stick
- lacrosse sticks
- plural form of lacrosse stick
- match sticks
- plural form of match stick
- pogo sticks
- plural form of pogo stick
- punji sticks
- plural form of punji stick
- rhythm sticks
- plural form of rhythm stick
- riddle sticks
- plural form of riddle stick
- stick
- A cigarette of tobacco or marijuana
- stick
- A manual transmission or vehicle equipped with a manual transmission
I grew up driving a stick, but many people my age didn’t.
- stick
- To jam; to stop moving
The lever sticks if you push it too far up.
- stick
- The traction of tires on the road surface
- stick
- A memory stick
- stick
- The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc
His stroke with that two-piece stick is a good as anybody's in the club.
- stick
- To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint
- stick
- The short whip carried by a jockey
- stick
- An unsocial person, particularly one who is either withdrawn or stuck-up
- stick
- A group of paratroopers who jump together
- stick
- A cudgel or truncheon, especially one carried by police or guards
As soon as the fight started, the guards came in swinging their sticks.
- stick
- A line of soldiers
- stick
- A quantity of eels, usually 25
- stick
- 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.
- stick
- Of snow, to remain frozen on landing
- stick
- A cluster of bombs dropped in quick succession from an aircraft in order to spread them over a target area
- stick
- A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type
- stick
- A standard rectangular piece of chewing gum
Don’t hog all that gum, give me a stick!.
- stick
- A piece of furniture
We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture.
- stick
- Use of the stick to control the aircraft
- stick
- Vigorous driving of a car; gas
- stick
- To strike someone with a stick
- stick
- A negative stimulus or a punishment
- stick
- The clarinet. (more often: liquorice stick)
- stick
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game
He shoots a mean stick of pool.
- stick
- 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.).
- stick
- See to stick with
- stick
- To propagate plants by cuttings
Stick cuttings from geraniums promptly.
- stick
- Approximately one gram of marijuana wrapped in a small cylinder of aluminium foil
- stick
- A person having the stated quality
- stick
- Corporal punishment; beatings
- stick
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size
What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A stick.
- stick
- A small branch from a tree or bush
The nest was made out of sticks.
- stick
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick
US My parents bought us each a stick of cotton candy.
- stick
- A fighter pilot
- stick
- To press into with a sharp point
The balloon will pop when I stick this pin in it.
- stick
- To perform (a landing) perfectly
Once again, the world champion sticks the dismount.
- stick
- The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint
- stick
- A thin person; particularly a flat-chested woman
- stick
- Criticism or ridicule
- stick
- An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches
- stick
- To persist
His old nickname stuck.
- stick
- A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard
Wax your stick and head down to that spot.
- stick
- The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole
His wedge shot bounced off the stick and went in the hole.
- stick
- The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick
- stick
- An assistant planted in the audience
- stick
- 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.
- stick
- 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"
- stick
- 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.
- stick
- Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions
I grew up driving stick, but many people my age didn't.
- stick
- 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.
- stick
- To become attached; to adhere
The tape will not stick if it melts.
- stick
- A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick
- stick
- A cane or walking stick to aid in walking
I don’t need my stick to walk, but it’s helpful.
- stick
- To place, set down (quickly or carelessly)
Stick your bag over there and come with me.
- stick
- Vigor; spirit
- stick
- To glue; to adhere
Stick the label on the jar.
- the sticks
- A remote, rural area; a place that is removed from civilization such as the boondocks
- walking sticks
- plural form of walking stick
- stick
- be or become fixed; "The door sticks--we will have to plane it
- stick
- cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface; "stick some feathers in the turkey before you serve it"
- stick
- fasten with or as with pins or nails; "stick the photo onto the corkboard"
- stick
- 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
- stick
- fasten with an adhesive material like glue; "stick the poster onto the wall"
- stick
- endure; "The label stuck to her for the rest of her life"
- stick
- To be prevented from going farther; to stop by reason of some obstacle; to be stayed
- stick
- fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something; "stick the corner of the sheet under the mattress"
- stick
- {n} a small piece of wood, small tree, staff
- stick
- {v} to fasten, fix, adhere, stop, scruple, stab, kill
- Stick
- Chapman Stick or The Stick, electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman
- karate sticks
- nunchaku, martial arts weapon comprised of two hardwood sticks joined at the ends by a short strip of rawhide or cord or chain
- stick
- A snowboard
- stick
- A surfboard
- stick
- 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
- stick
- 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
- stick
- To cause to stick; to bring to a stand; to pose; to puzzle; as, to stick one with a hard problem
- stick
- A line of infantry in a landing craft (usually 2 per craft)
- stick
- To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand
- stick
- 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
- stick
- Such moldings are said to be stuck
- stick
- 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
- stick
- See under Composing
- stick
- implement consisting of a length of wood; "he collected dry sticks for a campfire"; "the kid had a candied apple on a stick"
- stick
- To be embarrassed or puzzled; to hesitate; to be deterred, as by scruples; to scruple; often with at
- stick
- Same as "sled," which is another word for snowboard
- stick
- It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc
- stick
- To set; to fix in; as, to stick card teeth
- stick
- 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"
- stick
- To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale; as, to stick an apple on a fork
- stick
- a stickshift
- stick
- The Microphone
- stick
- informal terms of the leg; "fever left him weak on his sticks"
- stick
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill"
- stick
- Piece of short pulpwood (22)
- stick
- A composing stick
- stick
- To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat
- stick
- 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
- stick
- be loyal to; "She stood by her husband in times of trouble"; "The friends stuck together through the war"
- stick
- To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation
- stick
- 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
- stick
- 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
- stick
- a small thin branch of a tree
- stick
- pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed; "He stuck the needle into his finger"
- stick
- The control column of an aircraft
- stick
- A derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or stupid; as, an odd stick; a poor stick
- stick
- 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!"
- stick
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- stick
- Checking: an attempt to dislodge the ball from the opponent's crosse (stick)
- stick
- approximately one gram of marijuana wrapped in aluminium foil in a small cylinder
- stick
- {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
- stick
- {i} branch cut or broken from a tree or bush; long slender piece of wood; something which resembles a stick; staff, walking stick
- stick
- To inject
- stick
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- stick
- 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 "
- stick
- threat of a penalty; "the policy so far is all stick and no carrot"
- stick
- 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"
- stick
- To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick; as, to stick type
- stick
- To set with something pointed; as, to stick cards
- 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"
- stick
- 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
- stick
- To adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall
- stick
- A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab
- stick
- 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)
- stick
- 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!
- stick
- fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"
- stick
- A stick or sticky, a member of the Official IRA
- stick
- A scroll (rolled around a stick)
- stick
- 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
- stick
- A cane to aid in walking (also called walking stick)
- stick
- A piece of chewing gum
- stick
- 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"
- stick
- pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument; "he stuck the cloth with the needle"
- stick
- be a devoted follower or supporter; "The residents of this village adhered to Catholicism"; "She sticks to her principles"
- stick
- A lacrosse stick
- stick
- 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
- stick
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood
- stick
- A hockey stick
- stick
- To penetrate with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to stab; hence, to kill by piercing; as, to stick a beast
- stick
- stick to firmly; "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?"
- stick
- one made of wood is used
- stick
- Anything shaped like a stick; as, a stick of wax
- stick
- 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 "
- stick
- To cause to penetrate; to push, thrust, or drive, so as to pierce; as, to stick a needle into one's finger
- stick
- 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
- stick
- A small, roughly cylindrical form of material
- stick
- 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"
- stick
- 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
- stick
- Tire traction "The cars are sticking to the track "
- stick
- The pole in the centre of the green with a flag attached
- the sticks
- (Slang) countryside, far away (e.g. "She lives out in the sticks, she lives far away")