stick

1. (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.

2. (transitive, printing, slang, dated) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.Examples: "to stick type"datedslangtransitive

3. (transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.transitive

1. (uncountable) The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.uncountable

2. (uncountable) The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.countableuncountable

3. (uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).uncountable

4. (uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).Examples: "Problem: A lot of stick and a lack of energy on the forward stroke."countableuncountable

5. (countable) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.Examples: "What if Veronica Prego was lying about who drew the blood and it was her own carelessness, not Joyce Fogel's, which caused the needle stick?"countable

1. (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.Examples: "The tape will not stick if it melts."; "The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^([sic – meaning random]) uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images."; "I haue stucke vnto thy Testimonies: O Lord put me not to shame."Synonyms: cleave, cling, adhere, attach, bond, cleave, cling, cohereintransitive

2. (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.Examples: "The lever sticks if you push it too far up."Synonyms: jam, stall, anchor, astand, blin, brake, cease, desistintransitive

3. (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.Examples: ""I've had ten years of it, scratching enough out of it to dress and feed myself when the going's good and sharing a room with a girl friend or pigging it in some cheap boarding-house, and doing a perish when I've been out of a job. I've got to the point where I can't stick it any longer. I'd get out tomorrow if I could find something else to do.""; "Why do most course organizers stick the job for less than five years?"Synonyms: live with, put up with, abear, abide, aby, accept, allow, beartransitive

4. (intransitive) To persist.Examples: "His old nickname stuck."; ""Our team did brilliantly to be in the game. We stuck at it and did a good job. This is disappointing but we'll think about the next game tomorrow.""Synonyms: abide, carry on, abide, astand, bear up, carry on, continue, endureintransitive

5. (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.Synonyms: pitch, settleintransitive

6. (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.Examples: "Just stick to your strategy, and you will win."; "After this contencion, the common people did ſticke vnto king Agis, and the riche men followed Leonidas, praying and perſwading him not to forſake them: and further, they did ſo intreate the Senators, in whom conſiſteth the chiefe authority,[…]"; "What I get from work makes me a better mother, and what I get from being a mother makes me a better journalist. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it."Synonyms: stand by, stick byintransitive

1. (informal) Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.Examples: "A non-stick pan. A stick plaster."; "A sticker type of glue. The stickest kind of gum."informal

1. (obsolete) The customary length (according to the material used) of a piece or roll of textile fabrics imported from Flanders.obsolete