stick

UK /stɪk/ US /stɪk/
noun 12verb 9adj 1name 1

Definitions

noun

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.

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.

2

An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.

I found several good sticks in the brush heap.

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

3

An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.

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

4

An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.

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.

5

An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.

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

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.

to stick type

3

To furnish or set with sticks.

4

To hit with a stick.

noun

1

The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.

2

The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.

3

That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).

4

That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).

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

5

A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.

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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