stick

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
2. (countable, uncountable) An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
3. (US, countable, uncountable) An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
4. (countable, uncountable) An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
5. (countable, uncountable) An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
6. (countable, uncountable) An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
7. (countable, uncountable) An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
8. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
9. (countable, uncountable) Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
10. (Canada, US, countable, uncountable) Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
11. (countable, uncountable) Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
12. (countable, slang, uncountable) Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
13. (countable, uncountable) Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
14. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
15. (countable, uncountable) Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
16. (US, colloquial, countable, uncountable) A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
17. (US, colloquial, uncountable) A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
18. (countable, uncountable) A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
19. (uncountable) A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
20. (US, World-War-I, countable, slang, uncountable) A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
21. (countable, uncountable) A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
22. (countable, uncountable) A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
23. (countable, slang, uncountable) A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
24. (countable, dated, uncountable) A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
25. (countable, slang, uncountable) A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
26. (countable, uncountable) A stick-like item:
27. (countable, uncountable) A stick-like item:
28. (countable, uncountable) A stick-like item:
29. (countable, uncountable) A stick-like item:
30. (US, slang, uncountable) A stick-like item:
31. (US, countable, slang, uncountable) A stick-like item:
32. (countable, uncountable) Ability; specifically:
33. (countable, uncountable) Ability; specifically:
34. (countable, uncountable) Ability; specifically:
35. (countable, uncountable) Ability; specifically:
36. (countable, dated, slang, uncountable) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
37. (countable, dated, slang, uncountable) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
38. (countable, dated, slang, uncountable) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
39. (countable, dated, slang, uncountable) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
40. (countable, dated, slang, uncountable) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
41. (countable, dated, slang, uncountable) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
42. (South-Africa, countable, dated, slang, uncountable) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
43. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
44. (slang, uncountable) Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
45. (countable, slang, uncountable) Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
46. (countable, slang, uncountable) Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
47. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A measure.
48. (archaic, countable, rare, uncountable) A measure.
49. (countable, uncountable) Any of the eight 16-character groups making up the 128 characters of the 7-bit ASCII character set.

Verb

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

Verb

1. (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
2. (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
3. (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
4. (intransitive) To persist.
5. (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
6. (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
7. (dated, intransitive) To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
8. (dated, intransitive) To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
9. (dated, intransitive) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
10. (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
11. (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
12. (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
13. (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
14. (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
15. (archaic, transitive) To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
16. (transitive) To perform (a landing or a shot) perfectly.
17. (transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
18. (transitive) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
19. (dated, transitive) To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.
20. (dated, slang, transitive) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
21. (US, intransitive, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
22. (UK, intransitive) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.

Adj

Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.

Concepts

bâton

coller

canne

attacher

fixer

bâtonnet

enfoncer

baguette

afficher

piquer

fourrer

adhérer

rester

planter

🌱

accrocher

🪝

crosse

groupe de saut

quenouille

ficher

gourdin

correspondre

s’agglutiner

barre

filer

coincer

verge

ébahir

branche

se coller

tringle

être collé

percer

apposer

épingle

muselière

enfiler

🧵

joint

joindre

maintenir

s’attacher

crayon

📝

couvrir

couper

coudre

appliquer

consterner

herbe

gratter

collage

allumer

Synonymes

adhere

cane

staff

glue

rod

pole

club

paste

attach

wood

🪵

baton

affix

walking stick

cling

fasten

cudgel

tree

🌳

thrust

twig

stick to

fix

poke

prick

get stuck

bar

post

stab

shove

adhere to

bat

🦇

bond

sting

push

join

wand

hold

peg

branch

set

put

insert

cleave

catch

stuff

crutch

🩼

bludgeon

pierce

bind

place

stake

Traductions

palo

Stock

bastone

bastón

kleben

stok

Stab

pegar

bastão

colar

pegarse

baculum

vara

pau

enganxar

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/stɪk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: stikke

Hérité de ancien anglais: sticca

Appartenant à saterlandais: Stikke

Appartenant à flamand occidental: stik

Hérité de moyen anglais: stiken

Hérité de ancien anglais: stician

Appartenant à frison occidental: stekke

Appartenant à bas-allemand: steken

Appartenant à néerlandais: steken

Appartenant à allemand: stechen

Appartenant à danois: stikke

Appartenant à suédois: sticka

In summary

From Middle English stikke (“stick, rod, twig”), from Old English sticca (“rod, twig”), from Proto-West Germanic *stikkō, from Proto-Germanic *stikkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stikke (“stick”), West Flemish stik (“stick”), German Low German Stick (“stick”). Related to stigma.