stick

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

bâton

palo

Stock

bastone

coller

canne

bastón

kleben

stok

Stab

pegar

bastão

attacher

colar

pegarse

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stɪk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: stikke

Inherited from Old English: sticca

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Stikke

Cognate with West Flemish: stik

Inherited from Middle English: stiken

Inherited from Old English: stician

Cognate with Western Frisian: stekke

Cognate with Low German: steken

Cognate with Dutch: steken

Cognate with German: stechen

Cognate with Danish: stikke

Cognate with Swedish: 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.