Stick

//stɪk//

Definitions

nounsticks · Sticks

1
An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
The beaver's dam was made out of sticks.
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branch twig rice
2
Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick.
3
The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
4
That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
5
The customary length (according to the material used) of a piece or roll of textile fabrics imported from Flanders.
6
A member of the Official IRA.
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Sticky

verbsticks · sticking · sticked · stuck

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.

adjsticker · stickest

1
Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.
A non-stick pan. A stick plaster.

name

1
The Chapman Stick, an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman.

Word Origin

From Middle English stikke (“stick, rod, twig”), from Old English sticca (“rod, twig”), from Proto-West Germanic *stikkō, from Proto-Germanic *stikkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, p...

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