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sticky /ˈstɪki /adjective (stickier, stickiest)1Tending or designed to stick to things on contact: sticky cakes and pastries a sticky label...- In seawater, the expelled tubules lengthen considerably and become sticky upon contact with any object.
- The sticky boxes are designed to lure their prey with scents of chocolate and other foods.
- That means the town centre is soiled with around 200,000 sticky stains.
Synonyms adhesive, adherent, gummed rare tenacious 1.1(Of a substance) glutinous; viscous: the dough should be moist but not sticky...- And these are enzymes that make up a gluey, sticky substance, known as glucan, and the bacteria make this from sugar.
- When an egg is laid it is covered by a sticky substance that glues the egg firmly to any surface on which it is laid, irrespective of whether it is an adult bug or a plant.
- Some of the sticky substance stuck on her shoe and she grimaced in disgust.
Synonyms glutinous, viscous, viscid; gluey, tacky, gummy, treacly, syrupy; mucilaginous; British claggy; Scottish & Northern English clarty informal gooey, gloopy, cloggy, gungy, icky North American informal gloppy rare viscoid 1.2(Of prices, interest rates, or wages) slow to change or react to change.Such sticky prices in the presence of an increase in the money supply then result in increased real demand....- Inflation helps the economy deal with sticky wages and prices.
- The presence of nonmarket forces, such as regulations, sticky wages, or tradition, may weaken competition.
2(Of the weather) hot and humid; muggy: it was an unusually hot and sticky summer...- If the weather is sticky, it is humid and not particularly pleasant.
- In an open-neck blue shirt, crisp denim jeans, brown suede shoes, and carrying a denim jacket, he is ideally dressed for the sticky weather.
- Hot, sticky weather such as that we have been having for the last few days simply adds to stress, says Mrs Clarke - and makes it more likely that we will flare out of control.
Synonyms humid, muggy, close, sultry, sweltering, steamy, oppressive, airless, stifling, suffocating, sweaty, soupy, like a Turkish bath, like a sauna 2.1Damp with sweat: she felt hot and sticky and changed her clothes...- Perhaps it was a sensation crystallised by the potent mix of sun and alcohol, and sweat cooled onto a sticky back.
- They left the room and he pulled off the sticky, damp shirt.
- When they are sweating and get sticky, I just open up the harness zipper.
3 informal Involving problems; difficult or awkward: the relationship is going through a sticky patch...- Don't expect too much and make sure you don't get into any sticky situations.
- Junk bonds roared back into favour in the USA during the 1990s but the market has since hit a sticky patch.
- Time will come, one day, when you find yourself in a very sticky situation.
Synonyms awkward, difficult, tricky, ticklish, problematic, delicate, touch-and-go, embarrassing, sensitive, uncomfortable informal hairy 4(Of a website or its content) attracting a long visit or repeat visits from users: make your site as sticky as possible to keep visitors there longer more and more often, web designers focus on the need to add sticky features to their sites...- By definition, search engine results aren't sticky: you're on your way somewhere else.
- Page views are a good indication of how sticky your website is.
- To make your website stickier you can add a few simple interactive applications like site polls, surveys, a guest book, and an event calendar.
4.1(Of a thread in an online forum) set to remain at the top of the other threads regardless of when it was last updated: a sticky thread is now live on the forum...- I wish we had sticky threads, or maybe just a little new poster section.
- Have we ever had sticky threads, I can't remember?
- It's been my long held opinion that we could get huge benefits from sticky threads for this sort of thing, should it become technically possible to implement.
4.2 informal Long-lasting or persistent: his new nickname has proved to be surprisingly sticky...- With the really sticky ideas, a company has told a story to people throughout the company and beyond, so that employees can make the right decisions on their own.
- Trinidad has a very rich history and culture which has proven to be sticky in an ever changing modern world.
- There have been several failed attempts at advertising systems for online content, but some more recent methods have proven to be sticky.
noun (plural stickies)1A piece of paper with an adhesive strip on one side, used for leaving messages or reminders.Perfect pictures of sunny days, birthday parties and proms, of boyfriends, girlfriends and parents all hamming it up for the camera were as abundant as the yellow stickies that plastered his desk back at the precinct....- I certainly needed my deck of yellow stickies to flag her intelligent illustrations, but I found it all quite manageable because she writes so well.
- Handling problems and dealing with a nonstop barrage of calls is probably more than can be efficiently handled by a few yellow stickies.
2(In an online forum) a thread containing important information that is set to remain at the top of the other threads regardless of when it was last updated: could you put a sticky in the forum for those of us that are confused?...- The Mint Forum has a number of stickies explaining how to configure Mint using familiar terms from the config files of your favorite blogging software.
- Since it's been suggested there were too many stickies at the top of the forum, I'm going to add a layer of indirection and replace them with this thread.
- Should "Loop Back Test Instructions" be made into a sticky?
Phrasescome to a sticky end sticky fingers a sticky wicket Derivativesstickily /ˈstɪkɪli / adverb ...- I'm drooping in the oppressive heat, but Binoche is fresh-faced and crisply unaffected, her impossibly glamorous shoes tucked neatly beneath her, perky and upright as we sprawl stickily in the leather seats.
- In reality this blood which still oozes out stickily, is the red sap of the tree.
- They slid down her face stickily, and she didn't brush them away.
stickiness /ˈstɪkɪnəs / noun ...- So that's how I spent the afternoon - gently devouring sweet red hearts on a sunny Sunday afternoon, savouring the stickiness - I can think of many worse ways to spend my time.
- ‘When you have very finely milled starch and sugar together the effect on teeth can be worse than sugar, perhaps because of the stickiness,’ he said.
- Yesterday, with both hands covered in stickiness and occupied cutting the wax capping from the top of the honeycomb, a lump of wax containing honey flew onto my leg and started running down in a nasty tickly way.
Rhymesbrickie, Dickie, hickey, icky, mickey, Nicky, picky, quickie, rickey, Rikki, sickie, tricky, Vicky |