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  1.                 From en.wiktionary.org:
                

    
                
                  
    [Stick]
    

    
** English
    

    [wikipedia]
    

    
*** Pronunciation
    

    
 - [stĭk] , [en]
 - [en]
 - [en]
 - [en]
    

    *** Etymology 1
    

    [en] From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en], from [en].  Cognate with
[stq], [vls].  Related to [en].
    

    
**** Noun
    

    [~]
    

    
 1. An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand  or baton .
   1. A small, thin branch  from a tree  or bush ; a twig ; a branch .
   2. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=2013 | month=July-August | author=w:Henry Petroski
|title=Geothermal Energy (see
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2013/4/geothermal-energy)
|volume=101|issue=4|magazine=w:American Scientist |passage=Energy has seldom
been found where we need it when we want it.  Ancient nomads, wishing to ward
off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood
and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between
STICKS to kindle a flame.}}
    

    
  1. A relatively long, thin piece of wood , of any size.
  2. * [en]
  3. [en]  A timber  board , especially a two by four  (inches).
  4. A cane  or walking stick  (usually wooden, metal or plastic) < !--i.e., not necessarily wooden--> to aid in walk ing.
  5. * [chapter=23]
  6. A cudgel  or truncheon  (usually of wood, metal or plastic) < !--i.e., not necessarily wooden-->, especially one carried by police or guards.
  7. [en]  The vertical member of a cope-and-stick  joint.
  8. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1997 | author=Joseph Beals | chapter=Building Interior Doors | publisher=Taunton Press | title= Doors (see http://books.google.com/books?id=pnqqL6c3Zp4C) | page=82 | isbn=1561582042
|passage=When cutting the door parts, I cut all the copes first, then the
STICKS.}}
    

    
  1. [en] [en]  A mast  or part of a mast of a ship; _also_ , a [en] .
  2. [en]  A piece (of furniture , especially if wooden).
  3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1862 | author=w:W.M. Thackeray | edition=printed in _Harper's New Monthly Magazine_  volume XXV | title= The Adventures of Philip (see http://books.google.com/books?id=M3MCAAAAIAAJ) | page=242
|passage=It is more than poor Philip is worth, with all his savings and his
little STICKS of furniture.}}
    

    
 1. Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
   1. [en]  A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening  ( butter , margarine  or lard ).
   2. A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
   3. [en]  A cigarette [usually a tobacco  cigarette, less often a marijuana  cigarette] .
 2. Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
   1. A bunch  of something wrap ped around or attached to a stick.
   2. [en]  A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.
   3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1611 | title=The Bible | edition= 吴语: Authorized King James Version | section= [Book of Ezekiel]  37:16
|passage=Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one STICK, and write upon
it[...]}}
    

    
  1. [en]  The structure to which a set of bomb s in a bomber  aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession  such as paratrooper s or containers.
  2. * [en]
  3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2006 | author=w:Farley Mowat | title= Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World (see http://books.google.com/books?id=of4lqiSlYg8C) | isbn=0811733386 | page=200
|passage=A STICK of bombs fell straight across Wotton; blew up half a dozen
houses.}}
    

    
  1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2006 | author=Holly Aho | page=48 | title= From Here to There (see http://books.google.com/books?id=zRSh5jdFpkUC) | isbn=1411675401
|passage=James and I were in the same STICK of five guys going through free
fall school last September.}}
    

    
 1. A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
   1. [en]  A manual transmission , a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, [so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission] .
      1. right [en]  Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
   2. [en]  [en]  The control column of an aircraft ; a joystick . [By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although " yoke " or " control wheel " is more commonly seen.]
   3. [en]  Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
   4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1941 | author=Jay D. Blaufox | title=33 Lessons in Flying | page=47
|passage=For example: in making a turn, should you throw on too much STICK and
not enough rudder, you'll sideslip.}}
    

    
  1. [en]  An aircraft ’s propeller . < !-- [page=107] --->
  2. [en]  A joystick .
  3. * [en]
  4. [en]  A memory stick .
  5. * [en]
  6. [en]  A handgun .
  7. * [en]
  8. * [en]
  9. * [en]
  10. [en]  A composing stick , the tool used by compositor s to assemble lines of type.
  11. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1854 | author=Thomas Ford | title= The Compositor's Handbook (see http://books.google.com/books?id=qJIDAAAAQAAJ) | page=125
|passage=[...]although the headings may often be in other type, still, as
these are composed in the same STICK, they cannot fail to justify;[...]}}
    

    
  1. [en]  The clarinet .
  2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1948 | author= 吴语: Fred Ramsey | title=Jazz Parody: Anthology of Jazz Fiction | chapter=Deep Sea Rider | editor=Charles Harvey
|passage=Arsene, boy, ain't you worried about your clarinet? Where'd you leave
that STICK, man?}}
    

    
 1. [en]  A stick-like item:
   1. [en]  A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck  in sports like hockey , polo , and lacrosse .
   2. [en]  The short whip  carried by a jockey .
   3. [en]  A board  as used in board sports, such as a surfboard , snowboard , or skateboard . < !--
   4. *  2005 , surf.co.nz see http://www.surf.co.nz/school/ ,
   5. *: Wax your  STICK  and head down to that spot.-->
   6. [en]  The pole  bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
   7. [en]  The cue  used in billiards , pool , snooker , etc.
      1. The game of pool , or an individual pool game.
      2. * [en]
 2. [en]  Ability; specifically:
   1. [en]  The long-range driving ability of a golf club .
   2. * [en]
   3. [en]  The potential hitting power of a specific bat .
   4. [en]  General hitting ability.
   5. * [en]
   6. [en]  The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
 3. [en]  A person  or group of people. [(Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)]
 4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1967 | author=w:Maurice Shadbolt | title= The Presence of Music: Three Novellas (see http://books.google.com/books?id=EDU_AAAAIAAJ) | page=54
|passage=Your father's a great old STICK.  He's really been very good to me.}}
    

    
 1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1923 | author= [Lucy Maud Montgomery] | title=Emily of New Moon | chapter= Basa Sunda: Emily of New Moon/Chapter 7
|passage=“[....]He’s a good doctor but an odd STICK—odder by far than I am,
Emily, and yet nobody ever says he’s not all there.  Can you account for that?
He doesn’t believe in God—and I am not such a fool as that.”}}
    

    
  1. A thin  or wiry  person; particularly a flat-chested  woman.
  2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1967 | author=Cecelia Holland | page=39 | title= Rakóssy (see http://books.google.com/books?id=WuZCAAAAIAAJ)
|passage="She's a STICK, this one.  She lacks your—" he patted her left
breast— "equipment."}}
    

    
  1. [en]  An assistant plant ed in the audience.
  2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2001 | author=Paul Quarrington | page=255 | title= The Spirit Cabinet (see http://books.google.com/books?id=bfk-nU-bJkgC)
|passage=The kid was a STICK, a plant, a student from UNLV who picked up a few
bucks nightly by saying the words "seven of hearts."}}
    

    
  1. [en]  A shill  or house player.
  2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2011 | author=Howard Fast | title=Helen
|passage=A shill is also called a STICK, and the role of the shill or STICK is
to make the customer relax and feel at ease.}}
    

    
  1. A stiff, stupidly obstinate person.
  2. [en]  A fighter  pilot.
  3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2001 | author=John Darrell Sherwood | page=30 | title= Fast Movers: America's Jet Pilots and the Vietnam Experience (see http://books.google.com/books?id=agQyH1y_4q4C&isbn=0312979622)
|passage=Bill Kirk, described by Robin as a "hell of a STICK," didn't even
attend college until after the Vietnam War.}}
    

    
  1. [en]  A small group of (infantry) soldier s.
  2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2007 | author=Bart Wolffe | page=245 | title= Persona Non Grata (see http://books.google.com/books?id=5EanTB6yyI8C) | isbn=1430304774
|passage=I remember when we dreaded the rain, as our STICK of soldiers walked
through the damp, tick-infested long grass of the Zambezi valley,[...]}}
    

    
 1. [en]  Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
   1. [en]  A negative  stimulus or a punishment . [(This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward.)]
   2. * [en]
   3. * [en]
   4. [en]  Corporal punishment , beating s; [en]  criticism .
   5. * [en]
   6. * [en]
   7. [en]  Vigor ; spirit ; effort, energy, intensity.
   8. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1979 | author=Don Bannister | page=185 | title= Sam Chard (see http://books.google.com/books?id=jKw9AAAAIAAJ) | isbn=071000219X
|passage='Choir gave it some STICK on "Unto Us a Son is Born."' ¶ Cynthia
nodded.  ¶ 'It was always one of Russell's favourites.  He makes them try hard
on that.'}}
    

    
  1. [en]  Vigorous driving  of a car; gas .
  2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2006 | author=Martyn J. Pass; Dani Pass | page=163 | title= Waiting for Red (see http://books.google.com/books?id=CaGJb0A_alsC) | isbn=1905237553
|passage=Skunk really gave it some STICK all the way to Caliban's place, we
passed a good few Coppers but they all seemed to turn the blind eye.}}
    

    
 1. A measure.
   1. [en]  An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inch es.
   2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1921 | author=w:Elmer Davis | page=61 | title= History of the New York Times, 1851-1921 (see http://books.google.com/books?id=bws3AAAAIAAJ)
|passage=There was another speech in that day's news — a speech which The
Times printed on the front page because it was part of a front-page story, and
in full — it was only two STICKS long; printed in full just after the much
longer invocation by the officiating clergyman [...]}}
    

    
  1. [en]  A quantity of eel s, usually 25.
  2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1866 | author=James Edwin Thorold Rogers | section=Volume 1 | page=171 | title= A History of Agriculture and Prices in England (see http://books.google.com/books?id=ZmNaZfbq5tIC) | isbn=140217120X
|passage=The STICK is employed for eels, and contained twenty-five.}}
    

    
  1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1999 | author=Claire Breay | page=62 | title= The Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey (see http://books.google.com/books?id=RRtWubS24-YC) | isbn=0851157505
|passage=In the same charter, Nigel granted another 10 STICKS of eels yielded
by the fishery of Polwere to the abbey[...]}}
    

    
 1. [en]  Any of the eight 16- character  groups making up the 128 characters of the 7-bit ASCII  character set.
    

    ***** Usage notes
    

    
 - [furniture]  Generally used in the negative, or in contexts expressive of poverty or lack.
    

    ***** Derived terms
    

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|balloon stick |bangstick |beat off with a stick |beat with the ugly stick
|beer stick|locust stick|Welsh stick |better than a poke in the eye with a
burnt stick,better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick,better than a
poke in the eye with a shitty stick |between the sticks |big stick |bin stick
|bite stick |bug-on-a-stick |bully stick |button stick |cabbage on a stick
|cancer stick |candlestick|shit end of the stick |carrot and
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stick|sugar cane stick |center stick |Chapman stick |chapstick |cheese stick
|chewing stick |chew stick |Chinese fighting stick |chopstick |Christ on a
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stick|like breaking sticks |dandy's stick |dandy stick |data stick |dead stick
|death stick |deep stick |devil sticks |digging stick |dingle stick |dipping
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|feather stick |fighting stick |fight stick |fire-stick |fish stick |flat
stick |flax-stick |flower sticks |folding stick |folding-stick |foot stick
|fortune stick |French stick |funkstick |gas on a stick |gearstick |get on the
stick |giggle stick |give stick |glow stick |glue stick |goad stick |gob stick
|goon stick |gum stick |gun-stick |gutter stick |hair stick |heaven on a stick
|heel stick |high-stick,high-sticking |hit with the stupid stick |hockey stick
|holy crap on a stick |hoopstick |idiot stick |in a cleft stick |incense stick
|in quick sticks |in the sticks |it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog
|Jesus H.  Christ on a popsicle stick |joss stick |joystick |keep one's stick
on the ice |lacrosse stick |ladystick |like a monkey on a stick |lipstick
|love stick |make a stick for one's own back |matchstick |measure stick |meat
stick |memory stick |mesh stick |message stick |meter stick |metre stick |mint
stick |monkey on a stick |moon on a stick |mop stick |mop-stick |more than one
can poke a stick at |more than one can shake a stick at |more than you can
shake a stick at |morning sticks |mozzarella stick |musicstick |musk stick
|nigger stick |nightstick |noise stick |old stick |on a stick |one cannot
break a stick in a bundle |one can't break a stick in a bundle |one can't
break sticks in a bundle |orange stick |pace stick |peppermint stick |pica
stick |pick-up sticks |piggy stick |pimp stick |pipe-stick |pixie stick |play
stick |pogo stick |pointing stick |poking-stick |polo-stick |pongee stick
|Poohsticks |porridge-stick |puffy sticks |pugil stick |pumpkin-on-a-stick
|punji stick |rabbit stick |rainstick |rhythm stick |rice stick |riddle stick
|router on a stick |Sabbath stick |salt stick |satay stick |sea-stick |selfie
stick |sex on a stick |shave stick |shaving stick |sherm stick |shift stick
|shimmer stick |shit stick |shitty stick |shoe stick |shooting stick |short
end of the stick |sidestick |singles stick |size stick |ski stick |speak
softly and carry a big stick |splash stick |stick and carrot |stick-and-poke
|stick-at-itiveness |stick boy |stick bug |stick deodorant |stickfighter
|stickfighting |stick figure |stick frog |stick insect |stick in the mud
|sticklac |stickless |stick letter |stickman |stick-nest rat |stick nudger
|stick of furniture |stick of gum |stick phone |stick puller |stick
pusher,stickpusher |sticks and stones |sticks and stones may break my bones
|stick season |stick shaker,stickshaker |stickshift |sticks in a bundle are
unbreakable |sticks in a bundle cannot be broken |sticks in a bundle can't be
broken |stick-thin |stick time |stick to one's last |stick up one's ass |stick
up one's butt |stick welding |stinky stick |strike-stick |swagger stick
|swizzle stick |talking stick |talk softly and carry a big stick |tally stick
|tar with the same stick |tear stick |tea stick |Thai stick |the moon on a
stick |throwing stick |thunderstick |toddy stick |track stick |trench stick
|twin-stick |ugly stick |up stick |up sticks |up the stick |USB stick |walking
stick |walk softly and carry a big stick |whizzing stick |wrong end of the
stick |yamstick |yardstick |you cannot break a stick in a bundle |you cannot
break sticks in a bundle |you can't break a stick in a bundle |you can't break
sticks in a bundle }}
    

    
***** Descendants
    

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 - [ca]
 - [it]
 - [ko]
 - [pt]
 - [srn]
[bottom]
    

    
***** Translations
    

    [twig or small branch]
    

    
 - Abkhaz: [ab]
 - Albanian: [sq]
 - Arabic: [ar]
 - Armenian: [hy]
 - Assamese: [as]
 - Avar: [av]
 - Baluchi: [bal]
 - Bashkir: [ba]
 - Basque: [eu]
 - Bengali: [bn]
 - Bulgarian: [bg]
 - Central Sierra Miwok: [csm]
 - Chechen: [ce]
 - Chickasaw: [cic]
 - Chinese:
 - Czech: [cs]
 - Danish: [da] , [da]
 - Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
 - Esperanto: [eo]
 - Estonian: [et]
 - Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
 - French: [fr]
 - Galician: [gl]
 - Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
 - German: [de]
 - Greek: [el] , [el]
 - Haitian Creole: [ht]
 - Hebrew: [he]
 - Hindi: [hi]
 - Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
 - Icelandic: [is]
 - Indonesian: [id]
 - Interlingua: [ia]
 - Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga]  (shoilire)
 - Italian: [it]
 - Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
 - Jarai: [jra]
 - Kazakh: [kk]
 - Khmer: [km] , [km]
 - Korean: [ko]
 - Kurdish:
 - Lao: [lo]
 - Latin: [la] , [la]
 - Latvian: [lv]
 - Lithuanian: [lt]
 - Lutshootseed: [lut]
 - Macedonian: [mk]
 - Malay: [ms]
 - Maori: [mi]
 - Marathi: [mr]
 - Mongolian: [mn]
 - Norwegian:
 - Old English: [ang]
 - Old Norse: [non]
 - Ossetian: [os]
 - Persian: [fa]
 - Polabian: [pox]
 - Polish: [pl] , [pl]
 - Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
 - Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
 - Russian: [ru]
 - Slovene: [sl]
 - Somali: [so]
 - Sorbian:
 - Southern Altai: [alt]
 - Spanish: [es] , [es]
 - Sundanese: [su]
 - Swahili: [sw]
 - Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
 - Tagalog: [tl]
 - Tamil: [ta]
 - Thai: [th] , [th]
 - Tibetan: [bo] , [bo] , [bo]
 - Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
 - Tuvan: [tyv]
 - Ukrainian: [uk]
 - Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
 - Welsh: [cy]
 - Yagara: [yxg]
 - Yiddish: [yi]
 - Zazaki: [zza] , [zza] , [zza]
 - Zealandic: [zea] , [zea]
 - Zulu: [zu] , [zu] , [zu]
[trans-bottom]
    

    [long piece of wood]
    

    
 - Afrikaans: [af]
 - Albanian: [sq]
 - Arabic: [ar]
 - Armenian: [hy]
 - Assamese: [as] , [as] , [as] , [as]
 - Azerbaijani: [az]
 - Bashkir: [ba]
 - Belarusian: [be] , [be]
 - Bengali: [bn]
 - Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
 - Burmese: [my]
 - Carpathian Rusyn: [rue]
 - Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
 - Chechen: [ce]
 - Chickasaw: [cic]
 - Chinese:
 - Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
 - Danish: [da] , [da]
 - Dutch: [nl]
 - Esperanto: [eo]
 - Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
 - French: [fr]
 - Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
 - German: [de] , [de]
 - Greek: [el] , [el]
 - Hebrew: [he]
 - Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
 - Hungarian: [hu]
 - Icelandic: [is]
 - Indonesian: [id] , [id]
 - Ingush: [inh]
 - Irish: [ga] , [ga]
 - Italian: [it]
 - Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
 - Kabuverdianu: [kea]
 - Kashubian: [csb]
 - Kazakh: [kk] , [kk] , [kk]
 - Khmer: [km]
 - Korean: [ko] , [ko]
 - Kurdish:
 - Kyrgyz: [ky]
 - Lao: [lo] , [lo]
 - Latin: [la] , [la]
 - Latvian: [lv]
 - Lithuanian: [lt]
 - Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
 - Malay: [ms] , [ms]
 - Malayalam: [ml]
 - Maranao: [mrw]
 - Marathi: [mr]
 - Maricopa: [mrc]
 - Mongolian: [mn]
 - Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
 - Norwegian:
 - Old Church Slavonic:
 - Old East Slavic: [orv] , [orv] , [orv]
 - Old English: [ang]
 - Old Norse: [non]
 - Oromo: [om]
 - Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
 - Persian: [fa] , [fa]
 - Polish: [pl] , [pl]
 - Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
 - Romanian: [ro]
 - Russian: [ru]
 - Serbo-Croatian:
 - Sicilian: [scn]
 - Slovak: [sk]
 - Slovene: [sl]
 - Southern Altai: [alt] , [alt]
 - Spanish: [es] , [es]  [short] , [es]  [short] , [es]  [for holding something]
 - Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
 - Sylheti: [syl] , [syl]
 - Tajik: [tg]
 - Tamil: [ta] , [ta] , [ta]
 - Tatar: [tt]
 - Telugu: [te]
 - Thai: [th]
 - Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
 - Turkmen: [tk] , [tk]
 - Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
 - Urdu: [ur]
 - Uyghur: [ug]
 - Uzbek: [uz]
 - Vietnamese: [vi]
 - Volapük: [vo]
 - Welsh: [cy]
 - Yiddish: [yi] , [yi]
 - Zazaki: [zza]
 - Zealandic: [zea]
 - Zulu: [zu] , [zu] , [zu]
[trans-bottom]
    

    [cylindrical piece (of chalk, wax etc)]
    

    
 - Arabic: [ar]
 - Bengali: [bn]
 - Bulgarian: [bg]
 - Catalan: [ca]
 - Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
 - Danish: [da] , [da] , [da]
 - Dutch: [nl]
 - Esperanto: [eo]
 - Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
 - French: [fr] , [fr]
 - German: [de]
 - Greek: [el]
 - Hebrew: [he]
 - Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
 - Irish: [ga]
 - Italian: [it]
 - Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
 - Old English: [ang]
 - Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
 - Romanian: [ro]
 - Spanish: [es]
 - Swedish: [sv]
 - Tamil: [ta]
 - Turkish: [tr]
 - Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
    

    [cane or walking stick]
    

    
 - Arabic: [ar]
 - Armenian: [hy]
 - Bashkir: [ba]
 - Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
 - Bulgarian: [bg]
 - Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
 - Chamicuro: [ccc]
 - Chinese:
 - Czech: [cs]
 - Danish: [da]
 - Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
 - French: [fr]
 - German: [de]
 - Greek: [el] , [el]
 - Hebrew: [he]
 - Hindi: [hi]
 - Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
 - Indonesian: [id]
 - Irish: [ga] , [ga]
 - Italian: [it]
 - Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
 - Kazakh: [kk]
 - Korean: [ko]
 - Kurdish:
 - Latin: [la] , [la]
 - Macedonian: [mk]
 - Marathi: [mr]
 - Mongolian: [mn]
 - Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj] , [zdj]
 - Norwegian:
 - Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
 - Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
 - Portuguese: [pt]
 - Romanian: [ro]
 - Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
 - Slovak: [sk]
 - Spanish: [es]
 - Swedish: [sv]
 - Tamil: [ta]
 - Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
 - Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
    

    [hockey stick]
    

    
 - Bashkir: [ba]
 - Bulgarian: [bg]
 - Catalan: [ca]
 - Czech: [cs] , [cs]
 - Danish: [da]
 - Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
 - French: [fr]
 - German: [de]
 - Greek: [el]
 - Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
 - Hungarian: [hu]
 - Irish: [ga] , [ga]
 - Italian: [it]
 - Japanese: [ja]
 - Norwegian:
 - Polish: [pl]
 - Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
 - Romanian: [ro]
 - Russian: [ru]
 - Spanish: [es]
 - Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
 - Turkish: [tr]
 - Ukrainian: [uk]
 - Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
    

    [gearstick, stickshift]
    

    
 - Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar]  < !-- all assumed inflected form or vocalised spelling; please verify if linking is acceptable. see User:Kephir/gadgets/xte#Translation_fixing  -->, [ar]
 - Bulgarian: [bg]
 - Czech: [cs]
 - Danish: [da]
 - Finnish: [fi]
 - German: [de]
 - Greek: [el]
 - Hebrew: [he]
 - Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
 - Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
 - Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
 - Kurdish:
 - Macedonian: [mk]
 - Norwegian:
 - Polish: [pl]
 - Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
 - Romanian: [ro]
 - Spanish: [es]
 - Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
[trans-bottom]
    

    [chewing gum]
    

    
 - Finnish: [fi]  [small rectangular] , [fi]  [long and thin]
 - German: [de]
 - Italian: [it]
 - Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
 - Kurdish:
 - Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
 - Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
    

    [control column of an aircraft]
    

    
 - Chinese:
 - Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
 - Greek: [el]
 - Italian: [it] , [it]
 - Japanese: [ja]
 - Polish: [pl] , [pl]
 - Spanish: [es]
 - Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
[trans-bottom]
    

    [checktrans-top]
    

    
 - Dutch: [nl]
 - Italian: [it]
 - Korean: [ko] , [ko]
 - Mandarin: [cmn]
 - Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
 - Slovak: [sk]
 - Telugu: [te]
 - Turkish: [tr]
 - Walloon: [wa]
 - Woiwurrung: [wyi]
[trans-bottom]
    

    
**** Verb
    

    [en-verb]
    

    
 1. [en]  To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick  joint.
 2. [en]  To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick .
 3. [en]  To furnish or set with sticks.
 4. To hit with a stick.
    

    *** Etymology 2
    

    From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en], [ine-pro].
    

    See also the related [gem-pro], whence [fy], [nds], [nl], [de]; compare also
[da], [sv].
    

    Cognate with the first etymology (same PIE root, different paths through
Germanic and Old English), to [en], and to [en], via French [fr] – see there
for further discussion.
    

    
**** Noun
    

    [~]
    

    
 1. [en]  The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness .
   1. [en]  The traction  of tires on the road surface.
 2. [en]  That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
   1. [en]  The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast ; line stick .
   2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2004 | author=Simon Gawesworth | title=Spey Casting | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=mTasJXNIBsgC | isbn=0811701042 | page=47
|passage=Problem: A lot of STICK and a lack of energy on the forward stroke.}}
    

    
 1. [en]  A thrust  with a pointed instrument; a stab .
 2. * [en]
    

    ***** Usage notes
    

    The uncountable senses tend to have limited or niche uses, such as to quantify
the amount of _stick_ on a given tool.
    

    
***** Derived terms
    

    [en]
    

    
**** Verb
    

    [sticks]
    

    
 1. [en]  To become or remain attach ed; to adhere .
 2. * [volume=I]
 3. * [Psalms]
 4. * [en]
 5. [en]  To jam ; to stop moving.
 6. [en]  To tolerate , to endure , to stick with .
 7. * [1=en]
 8. * [en]
 9. [en]  To persist .
 10. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=December 10, 2011 | author=David Ornstein quoting [David Moyes]
|work=BBC Sport |title=Arsenal 1-0 Everton (see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/16015017.stm) |passage="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."}}
    

    
 1. [en]  Of snow , to remain frozen  on land ing.
 2. [en]  To remain  loyal ; to remain firm .
 3. * [chapter=Agis and Cleomenes]
 4. * [en]
 5. [en]  To hesitate , to be reluctant; to refuse  (in negative phrases).
 6. * [10]
 7. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1712 | author=w:John Arbuthnot | title=Law is a Bottomless Pit | location=London | publisher=John Morphew | chapter=1 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004771083.0001.000
|passage=Some STICK not to say, that the Parson and Attorney forg’d a Will,
for which they were well Paid [...]}}
    

    
 1. * [RQ:Browne Christian Morals] , 2nd edition edited by [Samuel Johnson] , London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 12, <sup> see https://archive.org/details/christianmorals01browgoog </sup>
 2. *: Though a cup of cold water from some hand may not be without its reward, yet  STICK  not thou for wine and oil for the wounds of the distressed [...]
 3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1740 | author=James Blair | title=Our Saviour's divine sermon on the mount [ ... ]  explained | volume=3 | page=26
|passage=And so careful were they to put off the Honour of great Actions from
themselves, and to centre it upon God, that they STUCK not sometimes to
depreciate themselves that they might more effectually honour him.}}
    

    
 1. * [3]
 2. *  1743 , Thomas Stackhouse, _A Compleat Body of Speculative and Practical Divinity_ , edition 3 (London), page 524:
 3. *: The _First-fruits_  were a common Oblation to their Deities; but the chief Part of their Worship consisted in _sacrificiing_  Animals : And this they did out of a real Persuasion, that their Gods were pleased with their Blood, and were nourished with the _Smoke_ , and Nidor of them; and therefore the more costly, they thought them the more acceptable, for which Reason, they  STUCK  not sometimes to regale them with _human_  Sacrifices.
 4. [en]  To be puzzle d ( _at_  something), have difficulty  understand ing.
 5. * [29–30]
 6. [en]  To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
 7. *  1708 , [Jonathan Swift] , _The Sentiments of a Church-of-England-Man, with respect to Religion and Government_ , in _The Works of Jonathan Swift_ , 7th edition, Edinburgh: G. Hamilton et al., 1752, Volume I, Miscellanies in Prose, p. 73, <sup> see https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001022853 </sup>
 8. *: [...]  this is the Difficulty that seemeth chiefly to  STICK  with the most reasonable of those, who, from a mere Scruple of Conscience, refuse to join with us upon the Revolution Principle [...] .
 9. [en]  To attach  with glue  or as if by gluing.
 10. [en]  To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
 11. * [chapter=8]
 12. [en]  To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
 13. * {{ RQ:Dryden Fables | Palamon and Arcite
|passage=The points of spears are STUCK within the shield.}}
    

    
  1. [en]  To stab .
  2. *  CIRCA 1583 , John Jewel, in a sermon republished in  1847  in _The Works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury_ , portion 2, page 969:
  3. *: In certain of their sacrifices they had a lamb, they  STICKED  him, they killed him, and made sacrifice of him: this lamb was Christ the Son of God, he was killed,  STICKED , and made a sweet-smelling sacrifice for our sins.
  4. * [III]
  5. * [part=I]
  6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1809 | title=Grafton's chronicle, or history of England | volume=2 | page=135
|passage=[...] would haue [=have] STICKED him with a dagger [...]}}
    

    
  1. * [passage=It was a shame [...]  to  STICK  him under the other gentleman's arm while he was redding the fray.]
  2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1908 | title=The Northeastern Reporter | volume=85 | page=693
|passage=The defendant said he didn't shoot; "he STICKED him with a knife."}}
    

    
 1. [en]  To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
 2. [en]  To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
 3. * [II]
 4. [en]  [en]  To perform (a landing or a shot) perfectly.
 5. [en]  To propagate  plants by cutting s.
 6. [en]  To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be _stuck_ .
 7. [en]  To bring to a halt; to stymie ; to puzzle .
 8. [en]  To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat .
 9. * [1=en]
 10. * [en]
 11. [en]  To have sexual intercourse with.
 12. * [en]
 13. * [en]
 14. [en]  To stand pat : to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
    

    ***** Usage notes
    

    In Early Modern English, the past participles [en] and [en] are occasionally
found; they are not known in the modern language, even as archaisms.
    

    
***** Derived terms
    

    _Note: Terms derived from the noun are found above ._ {{col3|en|title=Terms
derived from _stick_ (verb) |let the cobbler stick to his last |stick by|dirt
sticks|mud sticks|shit sticks|stick it |stick down|stick at nothing|stick one
on|see what sticks |sticker| let crazy stick its dick in you |stick fat |stick
one's dick in crazy|stick one's foot in it|stick one's foot in one's
mouth|stick one's head in the sand|stick one's nose in|stick one's nose
into|stick one's tongue out|stick 'em up|stick a fork in something|stick a
needle in my eye|stick a sock in it |stick around|stick at |stick by one's
guns| |stick in one's gizzard|stick in someone's craw|stick in someone's
gullet|stick in someone's throat |stick it out |stick it to|stick it to the
man|stick like shit|stick like shit to a blanket |stick a fork in me, I’m done
|stick a fork in something |stick on|stick-on |stick that in your pipe and
smoke it|stick the knife in |stick out |stick the landing |stick to |throw
enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick |stick to someone's
ribs|stick together |stick to business |stick to one's own knitting |stick to
one's text |sticktoitiveness |stick to one's guns |stick to one's
knitting|would lose one's head if it wasn't stuck on |stick to one's post
|stick to one's ribs |stick up |stick up for |stick up to |stick with |sticky
|throw things at the wall and see what sticks}}
    

    
***** Translations
    

    [to glue; to adhere (transitive)]
    

    
 - Albanian: [sq]  , [sq] (gheg)
 - Arabic: [ar]
 - Azerbaijani: [az]
 - Bakhtiari: [bqi]
 - Bashkir: [ba]
 - Basque: [eu] , [eu]
 - Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be]
 - Bikol Central: [bcl]
 - Breton: [br]
 - Bulgarian: [bg]
 - Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
 - Chinese:
 - Dutch: [nl]
 - Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
 - Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
 - French: [fr]
 - Galician: [gl] , [gl]
 - Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
 - German: [de]
 - Gujarati: [gu]
 - Higaonon: [mba]
 - Hindi: [hi]
 - Hungarian: [hu]
 - Indonesian: [id]
 - Italian: [it]
 - Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
 - Korean: [ko]
 - Kurdish:
 - Kyrgyz: [ky]
 - Latin: [la]
 - Malay: [ms]
 - Norman: [nrf]
 - Occitan: [oc]
 - Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
 - Persian: [fa]
 - Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
 - Portuguese:  [pt] , [pt]
 - Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
 - Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
 - Sardinian:
 - Sassarese: [sdc]
 - Sorbian:
 - Southern Altai: [alt]
 - Spanish: [es]
 - Swedish: [sv]
 - Tamil: [ta]
 - Turkish: [tr]
 - Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
 - Urdu: [ur]
 - Volapük: [vo]
 - Walloon: [wa] , [wa]
 - Welsh: [cy]
 - Yiddish: [yi]
 - Zazaki: [zza]
 - ǃXóõ: [nmn]
[trans-bottom]
    

    [to become attached, to adhere (intransitive)]
    

    
 - Arabic: [ar]
 - Azerbaijani: [az]
 - Bashkir: [ba]
 - Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be]
 - Bulgarian: [bg]
 - Chinese:
 - Czech: [cs] , [cs]
 - Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
 - Esperanto: [eo]
 - Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
 - French: [fr]
 - Gallurese: [sdn]
 - Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
 - German: [de] , [de]
 - Hindi: [hi]
 - Hungarian: [hu]
 - Ingrian: [izh]
 - Italian: [it]
 - Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
 - Korean: [ko]
 - Kyrgyz: [ky]
 - Latin: [la]
 - Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
 - Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
 - Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
 - Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
 - Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
 - Sanskrit: [sa]
 - Sardinian:
 - Sassarese: [sdc]
 - Southern Altai: [alt]
 - Spanish: [es]
 - Swedish: [sv]
 - Tamil: [ta]
 - Tocharian B: [txb] , [txb]
 - Turkish: [tr]
 - Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
 - Urdu: [ur]
 - Volapük: [vo]
 - Walloon: [wa]
 - Welsh: [cy]
 - Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
    

    [to jam]
    

    
 - Bulgarian: [bg]
 - Dutch: [nl]
 - Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
 - French: [fr]
 - Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
 - German: [de] , [de]
 - Hindi: [hi]
 - Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
 - Japanese: [ja]  [to stop moving] , [ja]  [to catch] , [ja]  [to fit into a space and get stuck]
 - Macedonian: [mk]
 - Portuguese: [pt]
 - Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
 - Spanish: [es]
 - Swedish: [sv]
 - Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
 - Urdu: [ur]
 - Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
    

    [to tolerate, endure, stick with]
    

    [to persist]
    

    
 - Bulgarian: [bg]
 - Dutch: [nl]
 - Finnish: [fi]
 - French: [fr]
 - Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
 - Italian: [it]
 - Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
 - Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
 - Tamil: [ta]
[trans-bottom]
    

    [of snow, to remain frozen on landing]
    

    
 - Finnish: [fi]
 - Hebrew: [he]
 - Italian: [it]
[trans-bottom]
    

    [to remain loyal or firm]
    

    
 - Bulgarian: [bg]
 - Dutch: [nl]
 - Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
 - German: [de]
 - Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
 - Italian: [it] , [it]
 - Japanese: [ja]
 - Maori: [mi]
 - Portuguese: [pt]
 - Spanish: [es]
 - Turkish: [tr]
 - Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
    

    [to place, set down quickly]
    

    
 - Bulgarian: [bg]
 - Catalan: [ca]
 - Dutch: [nl]
 - Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
 - French: [fr]
 - Hungarian: [put/place; standard]  [hu] , [colloquial, cf. ’throw’]  [hu]
 - Japanese: [ja]  [to place somewhere] , [ja]  [to stick onto or into something]
 - Portuguese: [pt]
 - Spanish: [es]
 - Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
    

    [to press into with a sharp point]
    

    
 - Aromanian: [rup] , [rup]
 - Azerbaijani: [az] , [az] , [az] , [az]
 - Bulgarian: [bg]
 - Catalan: [ca]
 - Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
 - Finnish: [fi]
 - French: [fr] , [fr]
 - German: [de] , [de]
 - Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
 - Ingrian: [izh] , [izh]
 - Italian: [it]
 - Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
 - Kurdish:
 - Latin: [la] , [la]
 - Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
 - Macedonian: [mk]
 - Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
 - Romanian: [ro]
 - Russian: [ru] , [ru]
 - Spanish: [es]
 - Turkish: [tr]
 - Ukrainian: [uk]
 - Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
    

    [to fix on a pointed instrument]
    

    
 - Finnish: [fi]
 - Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
[trans-bottom]
    

    [to perform (a landing) perfectly]
    

    
 - Finnish: [fi]
 - Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
    

    [to propagate plants by cuttings]
    

    
 - Dutch: [nl]
 - Finnish: [fi]
 - French: [fr]
[trans-bottom]
    

    [to hesitate, be reluctant; refuse]
    

    
 - Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
    

    [checktrans-top]
    

    
 - Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
 - Kurdish:
[trans-bottom]
    

    
***** See also
    

    {{col|en |stick in one's craw |stick one's neck out |stick one's oar in |stick
out like a sore thumb |stick-sling |stick to one's guns |stick-up |stick up
for |stuck up }}
    

    
**** Adjective
    

    [er]
    

    
 1. [en]  Likely to stick; sticking , sticky .
    

    ***** Usage notes
    

    
 - The adjective is more informal than nonstandard due to the prevalence of examples such as "non-stick pan" or "stick plaster".
 - The comparative and superlative remain nonstandard (vs. [en]  and [en] ) and are sometimes seen in between quotation marks to reflect it.
    

    ***** Derived terms
    

    {{col|en |non-stick,nonstick |stick note |stick plaster }}
    

    
*** Etymology 3
    

    From [en], [enm], [enm], from [en], [dum], [dum], from [en], from [en], from
[en].  Cognate with [de], [enm], [enm].
    

    
**** Noun
    

    [en-noun]
    

    
 1. [en]  The customary length  (according to the material used) of a piece  or roll  of textile  fabric s imported from Flanders .
    

    *** Etymology 4
    

    Possibly a metaphorical use of the first etymology ("twig, branch"), possibly
derived from the Yiddish schtick.
    

    
**** Noun
    

    [-]
    

    
 1. [en]  Criticism  or ridicule .
 2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2008 May 3 | author=Chris Roberts | title=It’s a stroll in the park! | journal=Huddersfield Daily Examiner | url=http://www.examiner.co.uk/huddersfield-giants/huddersfield-giants-news/2008/05/03/it-s-a-stroll-in-the-park-86081-20855936/
|passage=I got some STICK personally because of my walking attire.  I arrived
to training fully kitted out in sturdy walking boots.}}
    

    
*** Anagrams
    

    
 - [en]
[en] [en]
    

    
** Chinook Jargon
    

    
*** Etymology
    

    Borrowed from [chn].
    

    
*** Noun
    

    [chn]
    

    
 1. stick
 2. wood , firewood
 3. tree , forest
    

    ** Dutch
    

    
*** Etymology
    

    Borrowed shortenings from several English compounds, in all cases equivalent
to a borrowing from [nl].
    

    
*** Pronunciation
    

    
 - [nl]
 - [nl]
 - [nl]
 - [nl]
    

    *** Noun
    

    [m]
    

    
 1. a hockey stick
 2. a joystick , stick-shaped control device
 3. a memory stick  to store IT data
    

    ** German
    

    
*** Pronunciation
    

    
 - [de]
 - [de]
 - [de]
    

    *** Verb
    

    [de]
    

    
 1. [de]
 2. [de]  [de]
    

    ** Italian
    

    
*** Etymology
    

    [it].
    

    
*** Pronunciation
    

    [stick*]
    

    
*** Noun
    

    [m]
    

    
 1. a metal [en]  needed to reach where the arm cannot
    

    ** Romanian
    

    
*** Etymology
    

    Borrowed shortenings from several English compounds, in all cases equivalent
to a borrowing from [ro].
    

    
*** Pronunciation
    

    
 - [ro]
 - [ro]
    

    *** Noun
    

    [n]
    

    
 1. [en] -shaped object
    

    **** Declension
    

    [ro-noun-n-uri]
    

    
** Swedish
    

    
*** Etymology
    

    See [sv]
    

    
*** Pronunciation
    

    
 - [sv]
    

    *** Interjection
    

    [sv]
    

    
 1. get lost , fuck off
    

    **** Derived terms
    

    
 - [sv]
    

    *** Noun
    

    [n]
    

    
 1. a sting ; a bite from an insect
 2. [sv]  a trick
    

    **** Declension
    

    [sv-infl-noun-n-zero]
    

    
**** Descendants
    

    
 - [fi]
    

    *** Verb
    

    [sv]
    

    
 1. [sv]
    

    *** References
    

    
 - [so]
 - [saol]
 - [saob]
    

    *** Anagrams
    

    
 - [sv]