| 单词 | to stick out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stick out to stick out I. To (cause to) protrude. 1. intransitive. a. To jut out, project, protrude. Cf. sense 30. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > project or be prominent [verb (intransitive)] tootc897 shootc1000 to come outOE abuta1250 to stand outc1330 steek?c1335 risea1398 jutty14.. proferc1400 strutc1405 to stick upa1500 issuec1515 butt1523 to stick outc1540 jut1565 to run out1565 jet1593 gag1599 poke1599 proke1600 boke1601 prosiliate1601 relish1611 shoulder1611 to stand offa1616 protrude1704 push1710 projecta1712 protend1726 outstand1755 shove1850 outjut1851 extrude1852 bracket1855 to corbel out1861 to set out1892 pier1951 c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 59 Stokyn ene out stepe with a streight loke. 1542 N. Udall in tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 142 (note) He sawe an elfishe manne, with a long croked haukes nose, & a forehedde or brough with hornes stickyng out. 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis iii. f. 2 The Iaueling steale that sticked out. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. x. 86 Nose, eares, or any other part of the bodie sticking out. 1679 T. Shadwell True Widow i. 4 He changed his Taylor twice, because his Shoulder-Bone sticks out. 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 131 Sculpture..wherein the Figure sticks out from the Plain whereon it is Engraven,..is call'd..Bas-relief. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 221 His Throat sticking out like a Wen. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 230 In which wire is a pointed short pin, sticking out horizontally. 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 458/1 Long straight points that stick out from the edge of the Cordonnet. 1886 J. K. Jerome Idle Thoughts 5 What did it matter to him if his toes did stick out of his boots? 1915 A. D. Gillespie Let. 5 June in Lett. from Flanders (1916) 183 Except for the sentries, you could see nothing except boots sticking out from the dug-outs. 1987 Sunday Times 7 June 63/1 A carving knife sticks out of his chest and a patina of dried blood covers the sheets. 2002 E. Hartmann Truth about Fire vii. 72 He looked harmless enough, short and paunchy with a buck-teethy smile and ears that stuck out too much. b. To be prominent or conspicuous; to stand out.See also to stick out like a sore thumb at sore adj.1 9e, to stick out a mile at mile n.1 Phrases 1f. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > [verb (intransitive)] > strikingly shinec1340 to stand fortha1425 to stick out1612 to stick off1613 to stand offa1616 stare1645 glare1712 to stand out1824 to burn out, forth1834 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist To Rdr. sig. A3 These men..may some time happen on some thing that is good, and great... It sticks out perhaps, and is more eminent, because all is sordide, and vile about it. View more context for this quotation 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 15 Though we cannot mount up to the highest top of perfection, yet it is something for all that to sticke out above the rest in the second and third place. 1885 Wairarapa (N.Z.) Daily 30 Dec. I know the consequence, I can see it sticking out a mile! 1892 Evening News (Sydney) 10 May 7/5 Nothing can be clearer than this; it sticks out like a bumble bee on a bald man's head. 1902 Daily Chron. 9 Dec. 3/3 ‘Of her’ is all very well now and then, but when it occurs too often it ‘sticks out’, as Mr. Henry James would say. 1944 L. MacNeice Christopher Columbus 16 The grease-paint voice will stick out all the more when there is no real grease-paint to look at. 1952 M. Allingham Tiger in Smoke i. 16 You couldn't miss him. He stuck out like a lighthouse. 1987 B. MacLaverty Great Profundo (1989) 138 In drinking to forget he constantly remembered. He knew there were more important and awful things which had happened to him but one in particular stuck out. 2001 Top of Pops Mag. Sept. 34/2 There's been no pop recently about which you think wow, that's totally different. It's not all mega-samey but nothing really sticks out. 2006 Time Out N.Y. 25 May 22/1 A lanky ponytailed fellow in a wife-beater stuck out badly from his bandmates. 2. transitive. a. To cause to protrude; to thrust out, extend (esp. one's head, hand, or other body part). Cf. sense 31.Also in various figurative phrases as to stick one's neck out at neck n.1 Phrases 15, to stick out one's chin at Phrases 8, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of stretching body > stretch [verb (transitive)] > specific part of body reacheOE stretcha1000 to-spreada1000 warpa1225 spreada1275 putc1390 straightc1400 to lay forthc1420 outstretcha1425 tillc1540 extend1611 to rax out1622 to stick out1663 overreach1890 1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova II. ii. iii. 254 Supposing that those steams did cease..nevertheless would a long piece of Steel, insisting lightly upon a sustaining immoveable point be caused to stick out its Poles North and South. c1720 Duke of Montagu in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Duke of Buccleuch (1899) I. 367 in Parl. Papers (C. 9244) XLVI. 1 The women..with their mantoes stuck out behind. 1779 S. J. Pratt Tutor of Truth I. xliv. 163 He does nothing but treat and vance..and go backwards and forwards, sticking out his rump, and craning his fine, thin, long, meagre, nine-haired head. 1854 E. E. Stuart Let. 22 May in R. Stuart et al. Stuart Lett. (1961) II. 610 She would pull up her dress & stick out her Shoes, & crow, & seemed to enter fully into our feelings. 1887 E. E. Money Little Dutch Maiden (1888) 331 He stuck out his paw, and said Good-bye. 1922 E. Paul Indelible i. 61 She showed me the French kiss where you stick your tongue out, but I did n't like it. 1961 I. Jefferies It wasn't Me! x. 132 He stuck out his hand and I shook it. 1990 J. Faley Up Oor Close (2000) Pref. 11 She would hear us coming up the stair and stick her head out: ‘Would ye like a wee toffee apple? There ye are, dear.’ 2011 E. De Visser Interlinked iii. 112 It was always exciting to see them stick out those black little feel horns and spread them out like little fans. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor (a ship) [verb (transitive)] > anchor (a ship) > slacken off or shorten (cable) to stick out1770 to shorten in1803 1770 ‘T. Meanwell’ Voy. through Hell 36 Bear a-hand, bear a-hand there, hook the cat—Ay, ay—Hawl tort there, stick out the cable below there—Ay, ay. 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Stick out the Cable! the order to slacken and push it out at the hawse-hole, when the anchor is hauling up to the cat-head. 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. i. 21 Stick out the warp, let her swing to her anchor. 1887 G. B. Goode & J. W. Collins Fisheries U.S.: Fishermen 133 If the proper depth is obtained the orders are given..Pay away (or ‘stick out’) the cable; while this is being done by part of the crew the next order is..Furl the jib. II. To persist in a course of action. 3. intransitive. a. To continue to resist; to hold out. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > be constant or steadfast [verb (intransitive)] > endure without giving way bearOE sustaina1382 dreec1400 to bear, hold tack1580 to stick out1677 to tough it (out)1830 to keep (carry, have) a stiff upper lip1837 to take it (or life) on the chin1928 to hang in1969 the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (intransitive)] > resist > resist resolutely i-standOE atstand?c1225 to hold out rubbers1573 to stand out1574 to hold out1585 stay1593 to stand one's ground1600 to stick out1677 to stand brush1794 1677 E. Ravenscroft Scaramouch iii. i. 42 Come, Sir, ne'r stick out for so small a matter; don't go to intangle your self in Law: give it, give it, to save the trouble of going to Law. 1682 London Gaz. No. 1741/3 When the design..is made publick, several others will contribute, and none..who wish well to the Town will stick out. 1725 W. Berriman Hist. Acct. Controv. Church vi. 286 Theodorit himself, who stuck out for many years, did yet at last consent to it in the council of Chalcedon. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 8 He would have clearly liked to stick out; but..at last he struck. 1904 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 129 381/2 I should be very glad it the Minister would be resolute enough to stick out against the Premier. 1970 Austral. Women's Weekly 5 Aug. 64/3 Apparently my grandmother set out to smash the romance, and Aunt Amanda didn't have the gumption to stick out against her. 1985 R. Blake Decline of Power 1915–64 vi. 106 On the merits of the debt settlement he was right. Countries which stuck out longer got better terms. ΚΠ 1792 W. Dawson Diary 5 Nov. in J. Everett Mem. William Dawson (1842) (ed. 2) ii. 27 At Aberford Statute the colliers stuck out. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. vi. viii. 242 As long as you can give us money, I don't care..how long we stick out. 1894 Coal Trade Jrnl. 14 Nov. 828/2 The miners say that they cannot live decently on a further reduction and will stick out against it if it is forced. 1909 J. Galsworthy Strife i, in Plays 196 Who'd have supposed the men were going to stick out like this. 1921 Industr. Pioneer Aug. 12/2 The sea workers..stuck out for eight weeks while their union officials hobnobbed with legislators. a. With clause as object. To persist in asserting, to maintain. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1815 W. B. Heweston Hist. N. Bonaparte & Wars of Europe II. lxxv. 131 The articles..were, however, very much in favour of the French, who stuck out, that the Ligurian government should not be interfered with. 1877 S. Carolina 1876: Testimony Denial Elective Franchise I. 1071 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (44th Congr., 2nd Session: Senate Misc. Doc. 48) VI I stuck out that way that any man entered I would shoot, by which not one didn't enter the store at all, but they stuck out if I didn't come out they would tear the house down. 1894 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 Mar. 143/1 But she stuck out she couldn't think of anywhere to go. 1904 R. Hichens Woman with Fan iii. 33 Do you stick out that Carey didn't love you? 1915 F. M. Hueffer Good Soldier iv. i. 224 That checked Florence a bit; but she fell back upon her ‘heart’ and stuck out that she had merely been conversing with Edward. b. With double object. To insist (that something is the case) to (a person). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > insistence or persistence > insist or persist [verb (transitive)] to countenance outa1529 to face down (also out)1530 to stand to ——1551 to stand upon it1590 to stand in ——1594 to stand out1653 to stick out1885 sledgehammer1976 1885 Tinsley's Mag. Oct. 331 He..stuck me out that if only he could manage to eat a pound of pickled pork and half a pound of plum pudding in that position as how his fortune'd be made. 1910 A. Bennett Clayhanger i. vii. 49 She would not hear a word about the toast being a little hard... Maggie..‘stuck her out’ that the toast was in fact hard. 1916 A. Bennett Lion's Share vii. 53 I knew he was going to be ill when I left him in the cabin, but he stuck me out he wasn't. 1925 Traralgon (Victoria) Rec. 17 Apr. 6/4 Our butcher wanted to stick me out that I give 'im a bad 'alf crown yesterday. 5. transitive. colloquial. To put up with or persevere with (something difficult or disagreeable), esp. so as to see it through to the end. Chiefly in to stick it out. Cf. sense 20b. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > persevere or persist in [verb (transitive)] to stand in ——a1382 maintainc1385 willc1400 to stand fortha1425 to stick to ——1525 to tug out1631 worry1727 to stick out1833 to stick at ——1845 slog1846 stay1956 to chase up1958 1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing xlii. 164 We stuck it out most of the evening, till we found out how it was going, and then we cleared out. 1863 Let. 9 May in N. Carolina Standard 3 June 2 Many others from a more oily State slipped to the rear, and left the ‘Tar Heels’ to stick it out. 1882 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 17 May (1917) I. 419 I have promised Osgood, and must stick it out. 1901 Washington Post 22 Sept. 8/5 When the crowds are missing the few that stick out the season are more or less indifferent as to the outcome. 1916 E. W. Hamilton First Seven Div. 259 By this method, companies, and sometimes whole battalions, which had stuck out the shell-fire, were overwhelmed and annihilated. 1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. iii. ii. 509 If you went, I'm durned sure I couldn't stick it out another week. 1963 Ebony Oct. 81/2 Many EE [= Education Employment] students who have stuck out the 10 month period have bagged full time jobs. 2011 Daily Tel. 25 July 23/4 Mothers are usually told they have just to stick it out—not least because of fears that anti-sickness medication may harm the baby. 6. intransitive. To persist in one's demand for. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > demand > insistently exagite1623 to stick out1834 1834 Metropolitan Dec. sig. Y3v We bought a good allowance [of pork] for a shilling, and after sticking out for a greater proportion of mustard than the woman said we were entitled to, and some salt, we wrapped it up in a piece of paper. 1902 Cornhill Mag. July 55 Th' old leech was only sticking out for every brass farthing he could get. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 2/1 It is to be hoped that when the new boundary is determined we shall ‘stick out’ (if the expression be permitted) for the whole of Ruwenzori. 1918 D. Haig Diary 7 June in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 420 Foch stuck out for full powers as Generalissimo to order troops of any nationality wherever he thought fit. 1955 P. H. Gulliver Family Herds iii. 62 He had received his due, but since the bridewealth was a large one he obviously felt he could stick out for more. 2010 Scunthorpe Evening Tel. (Nexis) 6 July 4 They are also sticking out for a shorter working week and extended holidays in line with Corus steelworkers in Holland. 7. intransitive. With for: to stand up for, to champion; to insist on. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > resolution or determination > be determined on [verb] willa1387 set1390 to be bentc1400 to stand on?1440 to sit fast upon (something)1565 consist1588 to stick out1837 1837 New Sporting Mag. June 366 The younkers..held that nothing could be done except with a pack [of fox-hounds] of pure English blood. The Nestors of the chase talked of good old times, and stuck out for the old blood. 1860 Frank Leslie's Monthly July 2/2 But what do old ladies care for pretty faces? They stick out for noble descents—the fine rich scrofulous old English blood. 1862 Mrs. H. Wood Channings III. ix. 133 Nobody sticks out for politeness more than Carrick. 1916 J. Buchan Power-house vi. 146 Your pals played you a pretty low trick, and that was why I stuck out for you. 2000 Essex Jrnl. 35 2/1 We have—or so we are told by all but the few pedants who stick out for accuracy in these things—a new millennium to celebrate. < as lemmas |
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