English Explanatory Dictionary

stick

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
  2. A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
  3. A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
  4. A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
  5. A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
  6. A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
  7. The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
  8. A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
  9. A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
  10. A bar (counter where drinks are served).
  11. Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
  12. A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
verb
  1. To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
  2. To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
  3. To furnish or set with sticks.
  4. To hit with a stick.
noun
  1. The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
  2. The traction of tires on the road surface.
  3. That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
  4. The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
  5. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
  6. One who sticks at something; one who persists.
verb
  1. To become or remain attached; to adhere.
  2. To jam; to stop moving.
  3. To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
  4. To persist.
  5. Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
  6. To remain loyal; to remain firm.
  7. To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
  8. To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
  9. To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
  10. To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
  11. To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
  12. To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
adj
  1. Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.
noun
  1. The customary length (according to the material used) of a piece or roll of textile fabrics imported from Flanders.
noun
  1. A member of the Official IRA.
name
  1. The Chapman Stick, an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman.

Pronunciation

stĭk /stɪk/ En-us-stick.ogg

Word forms

stick sticks sticking sticked stuck sticker stickest

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- Proto-Indo-European *stignéh₂- Proto-Germanic *stikkōną Proto-Germanic *stikkô Proto-West Germanic *stikkō Old English sticca Middle English stikke English stick From Middle English stikke (“stick, rod, twig”), from Old English sticca (“rod, twig”), from Proto-West Germanic *stikkō, from Proto-Germanic *stikkô (“stick, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stikke (“stick”), West Flemish stik (“stick”), Dutch stek (“spot, place, home”), German Low German Stick (“stick”), German Stecken (“stick”), Danish and Norwegian stikke (“stick”), Swedish sticka (“splinter, needle”). Related to stigma.

Synonyms

stick twig branch rice kindling brush two by four cane walking stick piece item joint reefer train stickshift gearstick licorice stick liquorice stick pin flagstick plant shill stich broach cleave cling adhere attach bond cohere conglutinate glue hug stick together stick with jam stall anchor astand blin brake cease desist draw up grind to a halt halt hold immobilize leave off rest stay stint stop swike live with put up with abear abide aby accept

Related words

handle bone tree sceptre string tube stick in one's craw stick one's neck out stick one's oar in stick out like a sore thumb stick-sling stick to one's guns stick-up stick up for stuck up Stick Enterprises

Derived words

analog stick a stick in a bundle cannot be broken a stick in a bundle is unbreakable backstick ball and stick ball-and-stick model balloon stick bangstick beat off with a stick beat with the ugly stick beer stick better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick better than a poke in the eye with a shitty stick between the sticks big stick billystick Billy Wigglestick bin stick bite stick bloodstick boomstick bougar-stick breadstick broomstick bug-on-a-stick bully stick button stick cabbage on a stick cancer stick candlestick carrot and stick carrot-and-stick catstick center stick chainsticks chamberstick Chapman stick chapstick cheese stick chewing stick chew stick chewstick Chinese fighting stick chopstick Christ on a stick cinnamon stick clapstick cleft stick cleversticks clue stick cocktail stick composing stick control stick cornstick coup stick coupstick crabstick crap on a stick cross as two sticks

Translations

Afrikaans: stok Albanian: shkop Southern Altai: тайак Southern Altai: агаш Arabic: عَصًا Arabic: عصاية Arabic: عَصاية Arabic: إِصْبَع Arabic: عُصِيّ Arabic: عِصِيّ Armenian: փայտ Assamese: লাখুটি Assamese: লাঠী Assamese: বাৰি Assamese: টাঙোন Azerbaijani: çubuq Bashkir: таяҡ Belarusian: па́лка Belarusian: кій Bengali: লাঠি Bengali: কাঠি Bulgarian: пръ́чка Bulgarian: па́лка Bulgarian: калъ́п Bulgarian: лост Burmese: တုတ် Carpathian Rusyn: паліця Catalan: garrot Catalan: bastó Catalan: barra Chechen: ӏаса Chickasaw: itti' Chinese Cantonese: 棍 Chinese: гун Chinese: бон Chinese Mandarin: 棍 Chinese Mandarin: 棒 Chinese Mandarin: 棍子 Ngazidja Comorian: mɓuɗa Czech: hůl Czech: palice Czech: tyč Czech: tyčinka Czech: váleček Czech: kostka Czech: řadicí páka Danish: kæp Danish: pind Danish: stav Danish: stok Danish: stang Danish: gearstang Dutch: stok Esperanto: bastono Finnish: keppi Finnish: tikku Finnish: puikko Finnish: patukka Finnish: vaihdekeppi French: canne French: bâton Georgian: ჯოხი Georgian: თამასა Georgian: ლარტყა German: Stab German: Stecken German: Stock German: Knüppel German: Ganghebel German: Schalthebel German: Schaltknauf German: Schaltknüppel German: Wählhebel Greek: ραβδί Greek: βέργα Greek: ράβδος Greek: μοχλός Hebrew: מַקֵּל Hebrew: מַקֵל Hebrew: ידני Hindi: छड़ी Hindi: लाठी Hindi: डंडी Hindi: डंडा Hindi: शलाका Hungarian: bot Hungarian: rúd Hungarian: darab Hungarian: sebességváltó Hungarian: sebváltó Hungarian: kézi sebességváltó Hungarian: kézi sebváltó Hungarian: botváltó Icelandic: stafur Indonesian: tongkat Indonesian: batang Ingush: ӏаса Irish: bata Irish: maide Italian: bastone Italian: barretta Italian: asta Italian: barra Italian: cambio Japanese: 枝 Japanese: 棒 Japanese: スティック Japanese: マニュアル Japanese: シフトレバー Kabuverdianu: barapó Kashubian: czij Aromanian: nhig Aromanian: hig Azerbaijani: batırmaq Azerbaijani: saplamaq Azerbaijani: soxmaq Azerbaijani: sancmaq Bulgarian: забождам Catalan: ficar Czech: bodnout Czech: zabodnout Czech: bodat Czech: píchat Czech: zapíchnout Finnish: pistää French: enfoncer French: planter German: stecken German: stechen Hungarian: szúr Hungarian: döf Ingrian: törkätä Ingrian: pistää Italian: ficcare Japanese: 刺す Japanese: 突く Central Kurdish: چەقاندن Latin: figicō Latin: fīgō Lithuanian: durti Lithuanian: įdurti Macedonian: забо́дува Portuguese: enfiar Portuguese: cravar Romanian: înfige Russian: вка́лывать Russian: втыка́ть Spanish: clavar
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