stick

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A long slender piece of wood, especially:
2. n. A branch or stem cut from a tree or shrub.
3. n. A piece of wood, such as a tree branch, that is used for fuel, cut for lumber, or shaped for a specific purpose.
4. n. A wand, staff, baton, or rod.
5. n. Sports & Games Any of various implements shaped like a rod and used in play: a hockey stick.
6. n. A walking stick; a cane.
7. n. Something slender and often cylindrical in form: a stick of dynamite.
8. n. Slang A marijuana cigarette.
9. n. The control device of an aircraft that operates the elevators and ailerons.
10. n. Informal A stick shift.
11. n. Nautical A mast or a part of a mast.
12. n. Printing A composing stick.
13. n. Printing A stickful.
14. n. A group of bombs released to fall across an enemy target in a straight row.
15. n. Slang A group of paratroopers exiting an aircraft in succession.
16. n. A timber tree.
17. n. Informal A piece of furniture.
18. n. A poke, thrust, or stab with a stick or similar object: a stick in the ribs.
19. n. A threatened penalty: using both a carrot and a stick to keep allies in line.
20. n. The condition or power of adhering: a glue with plenty of stick.
21. n. Informal A remote area; backwoods: moved to the sticks.
22. n. Informal A city or town regarded as dull or unsophisticated.
23. n. Informal A person regarded as stiff, boring, or spiritless.
24. n. Archaic A difficulty or obstacle; a delay.
25. v. To pierce, puncture, or penetrate with a pointed instrument.
26. v. To kill by piercing.
27. v. To thrust or push (a pointed instrument) into or through another object.
28. v. To fasten into place by forcing an end or point into something: stick a hook on the wall.
29. v. To fasten or attach with or as if with pins, nails, or similar devices.
30. v. To fasten or attach with an adhesive material, such as glue or tape.
31. v. To cover or decorate with objects piercing the surface.
32. v. To fix, impale, or transfix on a pointed object: stick an olive on a toothpick.
33. v. To put, thrust, or push: stuck a flower in his buttonhole.
34. v. To detain or delay.
35. v. To prop (a plant) with sticks or brush on which to grow.
36. v. Printing To set (type) in a composing stick.
37. v. Informal To confuse, baffle, or puzzle: Sometimes even simple questions stick me.
38. v. To cover or smear with something sticky.
39. v. Informal To put blame or responsibility on; burden: stuck me with the bill.
40. v. Slang To defraud or cheat: The dealer stuck me with shoddy merchandise.
41. v. To be or become fixed or embedded in place by having the point thrust in.
42. v. To become or remain attached or in close association by or as if by adhesion; cling: stick together in a crowd.
43. v. To remain firm, determined, or resolute: stuck to basic principles.
44. v. To remain loyal or faithful: stuck by her through hard times.
45. v. To persist or endure: a bad name that has stuck.
46. v. To scruple or hesitate: She sticks at nothing—no matter how difficult.
47. v. To become fixed, blocked, checked, or obstructed: The drawer stuck and would not open.
48. v. To project or protrude: hair sticking out on his head.
49. v. Sports To throw a jab in boxing.
50. stick around Informal To remain; linger.
51. stick out To be prominent.
52. stick out Informal To put up with: stick out a bad situation.
53. stick up To rob, especially at gunpoint.
54. idiom. be stuck on Informal To be very fond of.
55. idiom. stick it to Slang To treat severely or wrongfully.
56. idiom. stick (one's) neck out Informal To make oneself vulnerable; take a risk.
57. idiom. to To hold fast to an opinion or a set course of action.
58. idiom. stick to (one's) knitting Informal To mind one's own business.
59. idiom. stick to (one's) ribs Informal To be substantial or filling. Used of food.
60. idiom. stick up for To defend or support.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To pierce or puncture with a pointed instrument, as a dagger, sword, or pin; pierce; stab.
2. To push, thrust, or drive the point or end of, as into something which one seeks to pierce, or into a socket or other receptacle; place and fix by thrusting into something.
3. To thrust; cause to penetrate or enter in any way; loosely, to thrust or put (something) where it will remain, without any idea of penetration.
4. To insert in something punctured: as, to stick card-teeth; hence, to set with something pointed or with what is stuck in: as, to stick a cushion full of pins.
5. To thrust or fix upon something pointed: as, to stick a potato on a fork.
6. In carpentry, to run or strike (a molding) with a molding-plane.
7. To close; shut; shut up. See steek.
8. To be fastened or fixed by or as by piercing or by insertion; remain where thrust in: as, the arrow sticks in the target.
9. To be thrust; extend or protrude in any direction.
10. n. A thrust with a pointed instrument which pierces, or is intended to pierce.
11. To pierce; stab. See stick.
12. To fasten or attach by causing to adhere: as, to stick a postage-stamp on a letter.
13. To cause to come to a stand; puzzle; pose.
14. To impose upon; cheat; chouse.
15. To beat, as at a game of cards: with for before the penalty or stake: as, to stick one for the drinks at poker.
16. To cleave as by attraction or adhesion; adhere closely or tenaciously.
17. To remain where placed; hold fast; adhere; cling; abide.
18. To hold or cling in friendship and affection.
19. To be hindered from proceeding or advancing; be restrained from moving onward or from acting; be arrested in a course, career, or progress; be checked or arrested; stop.
20. To be embarrassed or puzzled; be brought to a standstill, as by being unable to interpret or remember the words one is attempting to read or recite.
21. To scruple; hesitate,: with at.
22. To remain with; abide in the memory or possession of: as, ill-gotten gains never stick by a man.
23. n. An adhesion, as by attraction or viscosity.
24. n. Hesitation; demur; a stop; a standstill.
25. n. A strike among workmen.
26. n. A piece of wood, generally rather long and slender; a branch of a tree or shrub cut or broken off: also, a piece of wood chopped or cut for burning or other use: often used figuratively.
27. n. A cudgel; a rod; a wand; especially, a walking-stick or cane.
28. n. Anything in the form of a stick, or somewhat long and slender: as, a stick of candy; a stick of sealing-wax; one of the sticks of a fan, whether of wood, metal, or other material.
29. n. Specifically— The wand or baton with which a musical conductor directs a chorus or orchestra.
30. n. The wooden rod or back of a bow for playing on a musical instrument of the viol class.
31. n. The wooden rod or wand, with a rounded or padded head, with which a drum or similar musical instrument is beaten and sounded; a drumstick.
32. n. In printing: A composing-stick.
33. n. A piece of furniture used to lock up a form in a chase or galley. It is called, according to the place it occupies, head-stick, foot-stick, side-stick, or gutter-stick.
34. n. The rod which is carried by the head of a rocket, and serves to direct its flight.
35. n. A timber-tree.
36. n. Nautical, a mast: as, the gale was enough to blow the sticks out of her.
37. n. That which is strung on a stick; a string: as, a stick of herring.
38. n. The number of twenty-five eels, or the tenth part of a bind, according to the old statute de ponderibus. Also called strike.
39. n. A stick-insect. See stick-bug and walking-stick.
40. n. A person who is stiff and awkward in bearing; hence, a stupid, incapable, or incompetent person.
41. n. Synonyms See staff.
42. To furnish or set with sticks, as for climbing upon: said of peas.
43. In printing, to arrange in a composing-stick; compose: as, to stick type.
44. To cook (cutlets or steaks) by spitting them on long sticks with a piece of bacon at the end. The sticks are stuck in the ground, close to leeward of the fire. See sticker-up, 2.
45. To ‘hold up’; rob.
46. Hence to be importuned by a beggar; be forced to give in charity.
47. To bring (a kangaroo) to bay.
48. To stop (without idea of violence).
49. To pose; puzzle: as, “I was stuck up for an answer.”
50. n. A material of syrupy consistence obtained by cooking mixed city garbage and other refuse material with steam, removing grease and water by expression from the liquid product, skimming off the grease, and evaporating the watery residue. It is mixed with some of the solid matter from the same garbage or with chemicals, and used as a ‘filler’ or subordinate ingredient in fertilizers.
51. n. Rum, brandy, or any other liquor when used as a ‘stiffener’ or flavoring in ‘soft’ drinks: as, tea with a stick in it.

Wiktionary

1. n. A small branch from a tree or bush.
2. n. A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
3. n. A two by four, the standard board used in constructing a frame house.
4. n. Any roughly cylindrical piece of a substance.
5. n. A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
6. n. A small rectangular block of shortening (butter, margarine, lard, etc.) in weighing one quarter pound and containing by volume one half cup.
7. n. A standard rectangular piece of chewing gum.
8. n. A cane or walking stick to aid in walking.
9. n. A cudgel or truncheon, especially one carried by police or guards.
10. n. A negative stimulus or a punishment.
11. n. A piece of furniture.
12. n. A manual transmission or vehicle equipped with a manual transmission.
13. n. Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
14. n. (probably derived from the Yiddish schtick) Criticism or ridicule.
15. n. A line of soldiers.
16. n. A memory stick.
17. n. A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
18. n. The short whip carried by a jockey.
19. n. A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
20. n. The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
21. n. (sports, Sports)
22. n. An assistant planted in the audience.
23. n. A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type.
24. n. The control column of an aircraft. By convention a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to that used in automobiles, is also called the "stick".
25. n. Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
26. n. A fighter pilot.
27. n. The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
28. n. A cluster of bombs dropped in quick succession from an aircraft in order to spread them over a target area.
29. n. A group of paratroopers who jump together.
30. n. A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.
31. n. A quantity of eels, usually 25.
32. n. An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches.
33. n. Corporal punishment; beatings.
34. n. Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
35. n. Vigor; spirit.
36. n. A thin person; particularly a flat-chested woman.
37. n. An unsocial person, particularly one who is either withdrawn or stuck-up.
38. n. A person having the stated quality.
39. n. A cigarette of tobacco or marijuana.
40. n. The clarinet. (more often: liquorice stick)
41. n. The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
42. n. The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
43. n. Effort, vigour, energy, intensity, in a positive or negative sense.
44. n. The traction of tires on the road surface.
45. n. The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
46. v. To strike someone with a stick
47. v. To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
48. v. To glue; to adhere.
49. v. To become attached; to adhere.
50. v. To jam; to stop moving.
51. v. See to stick with.
52. v. To persist.
53. v. Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
54. v. To remain loyal; to remain firm.
55. v. To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
56. v. To press into with a sharp point.
57. v. To perform (a landing) perfectly.
58. v. To propagate plants by cuttings.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.
2. n. Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff
3. n. Anything shaped like a stick.
4. n. A derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or stupid.
5. n. A composing stick. See under Composing. It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is used.
6. n. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
7. v. To penetrate with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to stab; hence, to kill by piercing.
8. v. To cause to penetrate; to push, thrust, or drive, so as to pierce.
9. v. To fasten, attach, or cause to remain, by thrusting in; hence, also, to adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
10. v. To set; to fix in.
11. v. To set with something pointed.
12. v. To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
13. v. To attach by causing to adhere to the surface.
14. v. To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
15. v. To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such moldings are said to be stuck.
16. v. To cause to stick; to bring to a stand; to pose; to puzzle.
17. v. To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
18. v. To adhere.
19. v. To remain where placed; to be fixed; to hold fast to any position so as to be moved with difficulty; to cling; to abide; to cleave; to be united closely.
20. v. To be prevented from going farther; to stop by reason of some obstacle; to be stayed.
21. v. To be embarrassed or puzzled; to hesitate; to be deterred, as by scruples; to scruple; -- often with at.
22. v. To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. endure.
2. n. a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
3. v. cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
4. v. fasten with an adhesive material like glue
5. v. be loyal to
6. v. stay put (in a certain place)
7. v. be a mystery or bewildering to
8. n. a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
9. n. threat of a penalty