stick
A small, thin branch from a tree or bushAn elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.: A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
Recorded US: Dvortygirl, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Meaning
60 sensesAn 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
(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
(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.
(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
(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.
(countable, uncountable)The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
(countable, uncountable)A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture.
(countable, slang, uncountable)A bar (counter where drinks are served).
I've been working behind the stick for twenty years.
(countable, uncountable)Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick.
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
(countable, uncountable)A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
Don’t hog all that gum, give me a stick!
Kaugummistreifen
Examples
1796 sentencesYou must stick to your promise.
Ти повинен дотримуватися обіцянки. — deniko
ruТы должен держать обещание. — Biga
deSie müssen Ihr Versprechen halten. — MUIRIEL
Tom doesn't want to stick around.
Том не хоче бути десь поруч. — deniko
Tom didn't want to stick around.
Том не хотів лишатися поруч. — deniko
Would you stick around for a minute?
Можеш побути тут хвилинку? — deniko
That child stuck out his tongue at me.
Те дитя вистромило мені язика. — marko
ruТот ребёнок показал мне язык. — Lenin_1917
deDas Kind hat mir die Zunge herausgestreckt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 4
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By meaning 6
Origin
From Middle English sticke, stik, stikke (“branch, twig; kindling; mast; pale; stick, stylFrom 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: sticksSynonyms
29 synonyms- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane:control stickjoystick
- informal terms for the leg:pinpeg
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking:jointmarijuana cigarettereeferspliff
Word family
262 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
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 dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.