单词 | to stick together |
释义 | > as lemmasto stick together to stick together 1. intransitive. Of two or more people or (occasionally) animals: to remain in a group, to keep together; (in extended use) to remain loyal to one another, to present a united front. colloquial in later use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate for common purpose [verb (intransitive)] jousta1325 ally?a1400 joinc1400 associe1441 confederc1460 to stick together1525 band1530 to join forces1560 colleaguec1565 alliance1569 to enter league1578 unite1579 interleague1590 confederate1591 to join hands1598 combine1608 injointa1616 combinda1626 bandy1633 comply1646 federate1648 leaguea1649 associate1653 coalesce1657 to understand each other1663 sociate1688 to row in the same (also in one) boat1787 rendezvous1817 to make common cause (with)1845 to sing the same song1846 cahoot1857 to gang up1910 jungle1922 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cxlviii. f. clxiii Certayne knyghtes and squyers drewe togyther..and promysed eche other to stycke togyther lyke bretherne. 1560 Bp. J. Pilkington Aggeus the Prophete sig. Eij To teach vs..that they should loue & sticke together like brethren. ?1606 M. Drayton To Camber-Britans in Poemes Lyrick & Pastorall sig. C6v None from his death now starts, but..like true English harts, stuck close together. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. iv. 67 Like true, inseparable, faithfull loues, Sticking together in calamitie. View more context for this quotation 1680 Sir J. Scot in Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1913) 3rd Ser. VI. 576 Let us..sticke togither and positively refuse and..it shall not carry. 1735 J. Swift Humble Addr. to Parl. in Wks. IV. 232 Nature hath instructed even a Brood of Goslings to stick together while the Kite is hovering over their Heads. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. iii. 46 While we live we will stick together: one fate shall belong to us all. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island i. vi. 52 Jim and I shall stick together in the meanwhile. 1908 Magnet 1 1 The Remove don't like you now, but we'll stick together, and bring them round. 1955 S. J. Perelman in New Yorker 5 Mar. 29/1 It just proved that a few spunky people could trounce a big, soulless corporation if they stuck together. 1972 M. Glenny tr. A. Solzhenitsyn August 1914 xi. 108 The younger General Staffers of recent vintage all knew each other and stuck together like members of a secret order. 2012 Z. Smith NW (2013) 317 Listen, me and my girls stick together. That's all you need to know. They got my back. I've got theirs. 2. a. intransitive. Of two or more things: to adhere or cling to one another. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > be or become joined together [verb (intransitive)] > be or become closely, intimately, or permanently joined > cohere to hold togetherc1330 to hang togetherc1400 gluec1420 to stick together1535 cohere1616 cement1660 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Nahum i. B Like as the thornes that sticke together, and as the drye strawe, so shal the dronckardes be consumed together. 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Ccivv Good counsell and affection agre like iron and clay, which by no meanes can be brought to sticke together. 1677 G. Miege New Dict. French & Eng. ii. sig. Aaa2v/2 To stick together like burs. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 119/1 Bake, is when Letters stick together in distributing. 1718 I. Newton Opticks (ed. 2) iii. i. 365 How such very hard Particles..can stick together..so firmly. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 78 When rollers are tacky or stick together they are said to lug. 1898 Agric. Jrnl. (Dept. Agric. Cape Good Hope) 3 Feb. 145 If the tobacco is..quite moist, the bulks have to be turned over frequently in order..to shake out the leaves which would otherwise stick together. 1917 F. S. Henry Printing for School & Shop xiv. 237 Never use enameled paper for slipsheets, or the sheets will stick together. 1988 J. Trefil Dark Side of Universe iii. 49 For a brief period, protons and neutrons collided with each other and stuck together, forming the light nuclei. 2015 Daily Tel. 17 Feb. 10/3 Alzheimer's develops when proteins in the brain malfunction and stick together to become fibres. b. transitive. To join (two or more things) together (with or by some substance or means); to cause (a thing) to adhere or cling to another or others. Frequently in passive. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > join (together) [verb (transitive)] > join closely, intimately, or permanently > cause to cohere belimeOE to hold togethera1225 glue13.. cement1340 conglutinate1546 agglutinate1586 solder1601 coagment1603 glutinate1604 coagmentate1615 concement1628 to stick together1634 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxv. xviii. 993 The skinnes of..frogges, laid upon it, and stucke together with glew. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. I. ii. 82 Fourteen or fifteen pieces of green wax taper, stuck together in a square, would make a strong fire. 1836 Mechanics' Mag. 19 Mar. 493/2 A coat formed of two pieces of cloth stuck together by an India-rubber cement. 1891 J. P. Mahaffy Flinders Petrie Papyri 9 The coffins were made of layers of papyrus..stuck together so as to form a thick carton. 1921 Sunday Times (Perth, W. Austral.) 1 May 20/5 Anzac Biscuits... When cold stick together with raspberry jam. 1955 Sci. News Let. 17 Sept. 183/3 The plugs [in the arteries]..are made up of blood platelets stuck together. 1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 502 With the pink birthday cake I made two full-size ones... and stuck them together with strawberry butter-cream. 2010 Observer 28 Mar. (Kids Suppl.) 16/1 The board looks like two bodyboards stuck together which means that a parent can take to the waves alongside a child. < as lemmas |
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