sticknoun
uk/stɪk/us/stɪk/stick noun (THIN PIECE)
B1 [ C ] a thin piece of wood or other material:
B1 [ C ] mainly UK US usually cane a long, thin wooden pole that especially old or injured people use to help them walk:
B1 [ C ] a long, thin piece of wood used in playing various sports:
[ C ] a long, thin piece of something:
[ C ] US a car with a stick shift:
informal a piece of furniture:
to hit someone or something with a long, thin piece of wood:
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- a bundle of sticks
- We go to the park and I throw sticks for the dog to run and pick up.
- He managed to fend off his attackers with a stick.
- The last time I saw Rachel she was hobbling around with a stick.
- The ball deflected off my hockey stick, straight into the goal.
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Poles, rods, shafts and sticks
- bar
- baton
- billy club
- boathook
- bollard
- broomstick
- cane
- lightning conductor
- maypole
- pointer
- rod
- rung
- shaft
- shooting stick
- stake
- telephone pole
- totem pole
- truncheon
- utility pole
- waddy
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stick noun (CRITICISM)
[ U ] UK informal severe criticism:
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Disapproving & criticizing
- -basher
- animadversion
- aspersions
- backbite
- bad-mouth
- belabour
- damn
- damn sb with faint praise idiom
- denounce
- disapproval
- give sb hell idiom
- lashing
- pitch into sb/sth
- pound
- pound away at sth/sb
- pull sth apart
- put the boot in idiom
- take a dim view of sth idiom
- talk trash idiom
- throw
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stick noun (COUNTRYSIDE)
an area in the countryside that is far from a town or city:
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Towns & regions: the countryside
- backcountry
- bumpkin
- countrified
- country
- countryside
- countrywoman
- hick
- hillbilly
- hinterland
- land
- landscape
- out-of-town
- redneck
- rural
- rustic
- the backwoods
- the boondocks
- upstate
- wild
- yokel
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Idiom(s)
stickverb
uk/stɪk/us/stɪk/stuck, stuckstick verb (FIX)
B1 [ I or T ] to cause something to become fixed, for example with glue or another similar substance:
[ I ] If a name sticks, it continues to be used:
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- She licked the stamps and stuck them on the parcel.
- I stuck a 50p stamp on the envelope.
- Helga stuck her posters up with Blu-Tack.
- I stuck the notice up on the board.
- The glue had set and my hand was stuck fast.
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Glues, gluing & stickiness
- adhere
- adherent
- adhesion
- adhesive
- Blu-Tack
- cement
- epoxy resin
- fixative
- gloop
- glue
- gluey
- gum
- gummed
- gummy
- honeydew
- plaster
- propanone
- putty
- slimy
- tacky
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stick verb (PUT)
informal to put something somewhere, especially in a not very careful way:
[ T usually + adv/prep ] offensive If you tell someone to stick something or where they can stick something, it means that you do not want to keep that thing:
More examples
- I'll just stick my bag down.
- Just stick your bag under the table.
- I stuck my jacket over the back of my chair.
- I didn't know what to do with these so I stuck them outside for now.
- I stuck them in the fridge and left them there.
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Placing and positioning an object
- -based
- appose
- bung
- change sth around
- consign
- consign sb/sth to sth
- fit
- manoeuvre
- perch
- pop
- position
- sandwich sb/sth between sb/sth
- sandwich sth together
- set sb down
- set sth down
- shelve
- shove
- stand
- stuff
- whack
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stick verb (PUSH INTO)
B2 [ I or T, usually + adv/prep ] to push a pointed object into or through something, or (of a pointed object) to be pushed into or through something and stay there:
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Inserting and forcing things into other things
- cram
- dig
- dig (sth) into sb/sth
- embed
- embedded
- imbed
- in
- insert
- inset
- interlace
- interpolate
- interpose
- intersperse
- interspersed
- jam
- let
- let sth into sth
- squash
- thread
- wedge
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stick verb (NOT CONTINUE)
[ I ] In some card games, if you stick, you say that you do not want to be given any more cards.
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Card games
- bridge
- canasta
- card sharp
- deal
- dealer
- diamond
- discard
- flush
- grand slam
- jack
- joker
- pass
- pool
- royal flush
- rummy
- shuffle
- singleton
- solitaire
- strip poker
- suit
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stick verb (ACCEPT)
[ T ] UK informal to bear or accept something or someone unpleasant:
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Tolerating and enduring
- bear
- bear with sb
- bearable
- bide
- come to terms with sth idiom
- endurance
- philosophically
- resign yourself to sth
- ride
- ride sth out
- rough
- sit
- sit sth out
- stand for sth
- stew
- stew (in your own juice) idiom
- stick it out
- stick with it idiom
- stick with sth/sb
- sweat it out idiom
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