Meaning

60 senses

  1. An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.

    (countable, uncountable)A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.

    The beaver's dam was made out of sticks.

    Stock, Ast, Zweig

    прутprut

    прутprut

    a small thin branch of a tree

  2. (countable, uncountable)A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.

    I found several good sticks in the brush heap.

    What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A stick.

    a long thin implement resembling a length of wood

  3. (US, countable, uncountable)A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).

    I found enough sticks in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.

    I don’t need my stick to walk, but it’s helpful.

    Gehstock, Stock

    тростьtrostʹ, по́сохpósox, клюка́kljuká

    ціпо́кcipók, па́личкаpályčka, па́лицяpálycja

  5. (countable, uncountable)A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.

    As soon as the fight started, the guards came in swinging their sticks.

  6. (countable, uncountable)The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.

  7. (countable, uncountable)A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.

  8. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).

    We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture.

  9. (countable, slang, uncountable)A bar (counter where drinks are served).

    I've been working behind the stick for twenty years.

  10. (countable, uncountable)Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.

    Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick.

  11. Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.

    (Canada, US, countable, uncountable)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).

    The recipe calls for half a stick of butter.

    a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine

  12. (countable, uncountable)A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.

    Don’t hog all that gum, give me a stick!

    Kaugummistreifen

Examples

1796 sentences

  1. You must stick to your promise.

    Ти повинен дотримуватися обіцянки.

    ruТы должен держать обещание.

    deSie müssen Ihr Versprechen halten.

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  2. Tom doesn't want to stick around.

    Том не хоче бути десь поруч.

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  3. Tom didn't want to stick around.

    Том не хотів лишатися поруч.

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  4. Would you stick around for a minute?

    Можеш побути тут хвилинку?

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  5. That child stuck out his tongue at me.

    Те дитя вистромило мені язика.

    ruТот ребёнок показал мне язык.

    deDas Kind hat mir die Zunge herausgestreckt.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 4
long piece of wood:
twig or small branch:
cane or walking stick:
hockey stick:
Русский
By meaning 5
long piece of wood:
gearstick, stickshift:
twig or small branch:
cane or walking stick:
hockey stick:
Deutsch
By meaning 6
long piece of wood:
gearstick, stickshift:
twig or small branch:
cane or walking stick:
chewing gum:
hockey stick:

Origin

From Middle English sticke, stik, stikke (“branch, twig; kindling; mast; pale; stick, styl

From Middle English sticke, stik, stikke (“branch, twig; kindling; mast; pale; stick, stylus”), from Old English sticca (“stick; peg; beam, rod”), from Proto-West Germanic *stikkō, from Proto-Germanic *stikkô (“pole, stick”), from *stikkōną (“to fix, stick”), from *stikaną (“to stick; to stab”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp; to sting”).

From Middle English stiken (“to stick, pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Old English stician (“to pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Proto-West Germanic *stikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *stikkōną (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tig-, *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”).

From Middle English stick, stik, steik, from Middle Dutch stic, stec, stuc (“piece”), from Old Dutch *stukki, from Proto-West Germanic *stukkī, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją (“piece”). Cognate with German Stück (“piece”), Middle English stucche, sticche (“piece”).

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Forms

plural: sticks
Singularstick
Pluralsticks

regular

Synonyms

29 synonyms
branchA2riceA1brushA1caneB2pieceA1itemA1jointB2trainA1pinB2plantA2twigkindlingtwo by fourwalking stick
Close in meaning

Word family

275 related words
RelatedhandleA2boneA1treeA1stringA2tubeA1sceptre
Derivedanalog stickbackstickball-and-stick modelballoon stickbangstickbean-stickbeer stickbig stickbillystickbin stickbite stickbloodstickboomstickbougar-stickbreadstickbroomstickbug-on-a-stickbully stickbutton stickcancer stickcandlestickcatstickcenter stickchainsticks

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • stick around
  • got stuck in
  • stick around for
  • to stick around
  • is stuck in
  • stuck in the
  • stuck in traffic
  • got stuck
  • stuck in a
  • stick together
  • with a stick
  • stick around and

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
stewB2stewardstewardessstickerB1sticklerstickyB1
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