Meaning of stick | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A member of the Official IRA.
   Ireland
2. The Chapman Stick, an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman.
3. The customary length (according to the material used) of a piece or roll of textile fabrics imported from Flanders.
   obsolete
4. An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
   countable, uncountable
5. A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
   countable, uncountable
6. An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton
7. The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
   uncountable
8. To remain; linger.
9. A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch
10. A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
    countable, uncountable
11. The traction of tires on the road surface.
    countable, uncountable
12. To rob, especially at gunpoint.
13. A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size
14. A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
    US, countable, uncountable
15. That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
    uncountable
16. To be very fond of.
17. A timber board, especially a two by four (inches)
18. A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
    countable, uncountable
19. The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
    countable, uncountable
20. To treat severely or wrongfully.
21. A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking
22. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
    countable
23. A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
    countable, uncountable
24. To make oneself vulnerable; take a risk.
25. The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
    countable, uncountable
26. To hold fast to an opinion or a set course of action.
27. A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
    countable, uncountable
28. To mind one's own business.
29. A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
30. Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
    countable, uncountable
31. To be substantial or filling. Used of food.
32. 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).
    Canada, US, countable, uncountable
33. To defend or support.
34. A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
    countable, uncountable
35. stick it out, to endure something patiently to the end or its completion.
36. A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
    countable, slang, uncountable
37. Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
    countable, uncountable
38. A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
    countable, uncountable
39. A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
40. The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
    countable, uncountable
41. A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
    US, colloquial, countable, uncountable
42. A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
    US, colloquial, countable, uncountable
43. Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
    US, colloquial, uncountable
44. The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
    countable, uncountable
45. Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
    uncountable
46. An aircraft’s propeller.
    US, World-War-I, countable, slang, uncountable
47. A joystick.
    countable, uncountable
48. A memory stick.
    countable, uncountable
49. A handgun.
    countable, slang, uncountable
50. A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type.
    countable, dated, uncountable
51. The clarinet.
    countable, slang, uncountable
52. A stick-like item:
    countable, uncountable
53. A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
    countable, uncountable
54. The short whip carried by a jockey.
    countable, uncountable
55. A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
    countable, uncountable
56. The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
    countable, uncountable
57. The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
    US, slang, uncountable
58. The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
    US, countable, slang, uncountable
59. Ability; specifically:
    countable, uncountable
60. The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
    countable, uncountable
61. The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
    countable, uncountable
62. General hitting ability.
    countable, uncountable
63. The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
    countable, uncountable
64. A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
    countable, dated, slang, uncountable
65. A thin or wiry person; particularly a flat-chested woman.
    countable, dated, slang, uncountable
66. An assistant planted in the audience.
    countable, dated, slang, uncountable
67. A shill or house player.
    countable, dated, slang, uncountable
68. A stiff, stupidly obstinate person.
    countable, dated, slang, uncountable
69. A fighter pilot.
    countable, dated, slang, uncountable
70. A small group of (infantry) soldiers.
    South-Africa, countable, dated, slang, uncountable
71. Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
72. A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward.)
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
73. Corporal punishment, beatings
    slang, uncountable
74. Criticism or ridicule, often in the expressions "get a lot of stick", "get some stick", "come in for some stick", etc.
    British, countable, figuratively, uncountable
75. Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
    countable, slang, uncountable
76. Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
    countable, slang, uncountable
77. A measure.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
78. An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
79. A quantity of eels, usually 25.
    archaic, countable, rare, uncountable
80. Any of the eight 16-character groups making up the 128 characters of the 7-bit ASCII character set.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The beaver's dam was made out of sticks.”

“Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.”

“I found several good sticks in the brush heap.”

“What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A stick.”

“It is a fine stick, about 70 feet long.”

“I found enough sticks in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed.”

“I don’t need my stick to walk, but it’s helpful.”

“The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.”

“As soon as the fight started, the guards came in swinging their sticks.”

“When cutting the door parts, I cut all the copes first, then the sticks.”

“We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture.”

“It is more than poor Philip is worth, with all his savings and his little sticks of furniture.”

“Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick.”

“The recipe calls for half a stick of butter.”

“Don’t hog all that gum, give me a stick!”

“Cigarettes are taxed at one dollar per stick.”

“My parents bought us each a stick of cotton candy.”

“Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it[…]”

“Scores of transport planes streamed in to drop stick after stick of containers until the entire sky over the coast was polka-dotted with brightly coloured parachutes.”

“A stick of bombs fell straight across Wotton; blew up half a dozen houses.”

“James and I were in the same stick of five guys going through free fall school last September.”

“I grew up driving a stick, but many people my age didn't.”

“I grew up driving stick, but many people my age didn't.”

“For example: in making a turn, should you throw on too much stick and not enough rudder, you'll sideslip.”

“The keyboard offers a full range of actions including Fight and you are given the option of using a Kempston stick for the movement combat.”

“When you’re swooping, looping, and diving with the analog stick (either using the nunchuk or the Classic controller), the game feels very much like its 32-bit predecessor; […]”

“For ultimate presentation portability, a Powerpoint can be saved to a stick as images.”

“A stick in the hand, a drop in the eye.”

“You think you’re real now you’ve got a couple sticks? My favourite younger, he got stabbed in my bits. And if he died fam, I promise I’d have quit.”

“Bitch, pig, pull out with the stick / everything I hit like a lick/ We don’t miss”

“[…]although the headings may often be in other type, still, as these are composed in the same stick, they cannot fail to justify;[…]”

“Arsene, boy, ain't you worried about your clarinet? Where'd you leave that stick, man?”

“Tripping with the stick is a violation of the rules.”

“His wedge shot bounced off the stick and went in the hole.”

“His stroke with that two-piece stick is a good as anybody's in the club.”

“He shoots a mean stick of pool.”

“Come in, have a good time, drink some beer, shoot some stick, listen to some music.”

“I doubted that the three iron was enough stick.”

“Vaughn has to hit and keep hitting or this will be another year when the Mets don't have enough stick to win.”

“Your father's a great old stick. He's really been very good to me.”

““[…]He’s a good doctor but an odd stick—odder by far than I am, Emily, and yet nobody ever says he’s not all there. Can you account for that? He doesn’t believe in God—and I am not such a fool as that.””

“"She's a stick, this one. She lacks your—" he patted her left breast— "equipment."”

“The kid was a stick, a plant, a student from UNLV who picked up a few bucks nightly by saying the words "seven of hearts."”

“A shill is also called a stick, and the role of the shill or stick is to make the customer relax and feel at ease.”

“Bill Kirk, described by Robin as a "hell of a stick," didn't even attend college until after the Vietnam War.”

“I remember when we dreaded the rain, as our stick of soldiers walked through the damp, tick-infested long grass of the Zambezi valley,[…]”

“We were tempted with the carrot but subtly threatened with the stick.”

“What about contempt? Isn't it used by the judiciary as a stick to dissuade people from writing or talking about them?”

“Back in 2009, when Democrats tried but failed to take significant climate action, their policy proposals consisted mainly of sticks—limits on emissions in the form of permits that businesses could buy and sell.”

“The child killers got some stick. I saw a woman throw a basin of scalding water over a baby killer.”

““[…] Nigel used the word ‘invasion’ for a long time and got a huge amount of stick […]” he says, referring to the total number of men, women and children who have arrived by small boat in the past seven years.”

“Most people can remember their first taste of cider: sandwiched between an illicit fag and a bout of throwing up. It’s always been the teen drink of choice: available in group-sized bottles and with a more acceptably fruity taste than beer. It is also the down-and-out’s favourite tipple because it’s stronger than many bitters and lagers, so it’s a cheap way to get wasted. As a consequence, it has never been the hippest of drinks. As a devotee, I’ve come in for some stick over the years.”

“I got some stick personally because of my walking attire. I arrived to training fully kitted out in sturdy walking boots.”

“'I have nothing against the players at Cardiff, because they did all help me to become a better player.' He added: 'I'll probably have a lot of stick when I return to Ninian Park for that game, but I did was the best I could for Cardiff and the supporters. I've just got to get on with it and try to do a job for Birmingham City - this is now my future and my new employer.'”

“Again Rwanda chose to follow a different path, reflecting the unique historical and political context of the country, and dispensed with the sermons on democracy from outsiders. So Rwandans get a lot of stick for being big-headed and refusing to follow a path chosen for them, but striking out independently. They get hit for insisting on being the principal actors in making choices about matters that concern them.”

“He really gave that digging some stick.”

He threw himself into the task of digging.

“She really gave that bully some stick.”

She berated him.

“Give it some stick!”

“'Choir gave it some stick on "Unto Us a Son is Born."' ¶ Cynthia nodded. ¶ 'It was always one of Russell's favourites. He makes them try hard on that.'”

“Skunk really gave it some stick all the way to Caliban's place, we passed a good few Coppers but they all seemed to turn the blind eye.”

“There was another speech in that day's news — a speech which The Times printed on the front page because it was part of a front-page story, and in full — it was only two sticks long; printed in full just after the much longer invocation by the officiating clergyman […]”

“The stick is employed for eels, and contained twenty-five.”

“In the same charter, Nigel granted another 10 sticks of eels yielded by the fishery of Polwere to the abbey[…]”

“Problem: A lot of stick and a lack of energy on the forward stroke.”

“What if Veronica Prego was lying about who drew the blood and it was her own carelessness, not Joyce Fogel's, which caused the needle stick?”

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