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Definition: STICK |
STICKIntransitive verb1. To be embarrassed or puzzled; to hesitate; to be deterred, as by scruples; to scruple; -- often with at. 2. To be prevented from going farther; to stop by reason of some obstacle; to be stayed. 3. To remain where placed; to be fixed; to hold fast to any position so as to be moved with difficulty; to cling; to abide; to cleave; to be united closely. 4. To adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall. 5. To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation. Noun1. To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale; as, to stick an apple on a fork. 2. To penetrate with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to stab; hence, to kill by piercing; as, to stick a beast. 3. To cause to penetrate; to push, thrust, or drive, so as to pierce; as, to stick a needle into one's finger. 4. To fasten, attach, or cause to remain, by thrusting in; hence, also, to adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing; as, to stick a pin on the sleeve. 5. To set with something pointed; as, to stick cards. 6. To attach by causing to adhere to the surface; as, to stick on a plaster; to stick a stamp on an envelope; also, to attach in any manner. 7. To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick; as, to stick type. 8. To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such moldings are said to be stuck. 9. To cause to stick; to bring to a stand; to pose; to puzzle; as, to stick one with a hard problem. 10. To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat. 11. To set; to fix in; as, to stick card teeth. Transitive verb1. A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber. 2. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab. 3. A composing stick. See under Composing. It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is used. 4. A derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or stupid; as, an odd stick; a poor stick. 5. Anything shaped like a stick; as, a stick of wax. 6. Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick. |
Date "STICK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Stick \Stick\, noun. [Old English sticke, Anglo-Saxon sticca; akin to stician to stab, prick, pierce, German stecken a stick, staff, Old High German steccho, Icelandic stik a stick. See Stick, transitive verb.]. (references) |
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Literature | Stick A composing stick is a hand instrument into which a compositor places the letters to be set up. Each row or line of letters is pushed home and held in place by a movable "setting rule," against which the thumb presses. When a stick is full, the matter set up is transferred to a "galley" (q.v.), and from the galley it is transferred to the "chase" (q.v.). Called a stick because the compositor sticks the letters into it. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | Abrasive sticks are like lengths of wood, for getting into difficult devices. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military | A number of paratroopers who jump from one aperture or door of an aircraft during one run over a drop zone. (references) |
Mining | A cartridge of explosive. (references) |
Slang | Verb. Source: Random word- no meaning. Definition: A type of defensive coverage when the cornerback covers the flat zone and the strong safety gets over the top, so they can't run the post or flag. Context: Used to distinguish between the many different defensive coverages available. Social Source: Football players. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Sports & Leisure | The general appearance of the --, or --, has been described above. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: STICKSynonym: Cohere. (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: stick-on (sports & leisure). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver, shillelah, sprig; hand staff, quarter staff; bat, cane, stick, knuckle duster; billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy. |
Bungler | Noun: bungler; blunderer, blunderhead; marplot, fumbler, lubber, duffer, dauber, stick; bad hand, poor hand, poor shot; butterfingers. |
Cessation | Verb: cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break off, leave off; hold, stop, pull up, stop short; stick, hang fire; halt; pause, rest; burn out, blow out, melt down. |
Coherence | Verb: cohere, adhere, stick, cling, cleave, hold, take hold of, hold fast, close with, clasp, hug; grow together, hang together; twine round; (join). |
Fool | Oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony. |
Opening | Perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine; (scoop out); tunnel; transpierce, transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch; stave in. |
Scourge | Noun: scourge, rod, cane, stick; ratan, rattan; birch, birch rod; azote, |
Support | Staff, stick, crutch, alpenstock, baton, staddle; bourdon, cowlstaff, lathi, mahlstick. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: STICK |
| English words defined with "STICK": carrot stick ♦ fencing stick ♦ hockey stick ♦ joss stick ♦ Mesh stick ♦ Rack stick ♦ shooting stick, size stick, stick horse, stick insect, stick out, stick to, swagger stick, swizzle stick ♦ To stick by, To stick out, To stick up for, To stick upon ♦ Walking stick. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "STICK": bott stick, Breaking a Stick ♦ Cache On A STick, Crooked Stick ♦ dip stick ♦ GAMB STICK, gem stick ♦ Knights of the Stick ♦ match stick ♦ oil-level stick, Orbilian Stick ♦ piling stick ♦ runner stick ♦ setting stick, STICK FLAMS, SUGAR STICK ♦ tchesa stick ♦ Walking Stick ♦ Yard Stick. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "STICK": Thible. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "STICK" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (stick), Swedish (bite, cheese it, cut, dig, get, jab, prick, puncture, scat, shove off, skiddoo, stick, thrust, twinge). |
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Screenplays | Take Hitler and stick him on the funny page (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur) Fill a man full o' lead, stick him in the ground an' then read words on him. Why, when you've killed a man, why try to read the Lord in as a partner on the job (Red River; writing credit: Borden Chase) Woo-oo! You look like sex on a stick in that Frederick Montana getup (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox) Brains stick with brains (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.) You not gonna stick around for your share (The Sting; writing credit: David S. Ward) | |
Lyrics | Jack go under Limbo stick (Limbo Rock/Hand Jive; performing artist: Brave Combo) I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years (Golden Years; performing artist: DAVID BOWIE) With grooves so funky, they come with a Speed Stick (Keep Their Headz Ringin; performing artist: Dr. Dre) So stick around (Bennie And The Jets; performing artist: Elton John) It'll stick to your cheeks (In France; performing artist: Frank Zappa) | |
Clever | Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. (references; author: Mark Twain) Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle? (references; author: unknown) What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick. (references; author: unknown) If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Walking Stick (1970) Let's Stick Together (1952) Magic On a Stick (1946) Stick to Your Guns (1941) | |
Song Titles | Stick Up (performing artist: Honey Cone) | |
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(6) color slides show sticks of butter. (2) single sticks of butter unwrapped, (2) unwrapped stick of butter next to a butter knife, (2) a single pat of butter on a butter knife. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). | There are royal blue bowls (1 large, 1 small) full of white popcorn, on a white tablecloth. Behind the bowls are a glass mug of tea with a lemon slice and a cinnamon stick and a red poppy. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | ||
This helminth nematode parasite, also known as guinea worm, is gradually withdrawn from the body by winding the stick. Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Fig. 1 - Bait chopper; Fig. 2 - Bait slivering knife Fig. 3 - Halibut killer and gob stick; Fig. 4 - Wooden hand nipper Fig. 5 - Halibut gaff; Fig. 6 - Trawl buoy and black ball Fig. 7 - Canvas skate for section of trawl; Fig. 8 - Dory scoop Drawing by Capt. J.W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. | |
![]() | Traditional stick dance. Credit: Small World. | ![]() | King walking with stick past tree with letter N. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Man in tricorn hat, long coat, and walking stick. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Stick to the ship, Uncle! no time to change pilots!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Woodrow Wilson indicating the "common people" to "Wall Street" holding "money power" stick. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Indian stick ball players. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Stick" by Anna Takacs Commentary: "A little stick." | "Joss stick urn" by Michelle Ho Commentary: "A joss stick urn with wish tree in the background." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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| Striking the cue ball with the cue stick twice. | Cow bell being hit with a stick once. | ||
| Pogo stick bouncing once. | Jumping on a pogo stick once. | ||
| Pogo stick bouncing once. | Cow bell being hit with a stick once. | ||
| Hitting a hollow piece of wood with a wooden stick. | Cow bell being hit with a stick once. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Disraeli | Damn your principals. Stick to your Party! |
George Eliot | Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it. |
Henry Wheeler Shaw | My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. |
Josh Billings | Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs. |
Pierre De Beaumarchais | Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick. |
Theodore Roosevelt | Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. |
Thomas C. Haliburton | Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. |
Thomas Paine | The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | The Gold Stick came forwards |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The man took up his stick and knapsack, and went off. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The colonnade above him made him think vaguely of an ancient temple and the ashplant on which he leaned wearily of the curved stick of an augur |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The tenant men squatted down on their hams again to mark the dust with a stick, to figure, to wonder |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I then stepped over the buildings very conveniently from one stool to the other, and drew up the first after me with a hooked stick. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Each stick was carefully mortised or tenoned by its stump, for I had borrowed other tools by this time |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The esophagus may be too narrow, causing food to stick. (references) | |
The antibodies are custom-fit to stick to specific germs. (references) | ||
Blood is taken at the doctor's office through a finger stick. (references) | ||
Business | Chefs as well as restaurant owners tended to stick to what they knew in cooking equipment. (references) | |
Leading deodorant brands include Fa, Lady’s Speed Stick, Rexona and Secret while leading shaving cream and foam brands are Gillette, Florena, Nivea, Denim, Old Spice, Mennen and Harley Davidson. (references) | ||
After the 1998 economic crisis a significant portion of Russian women switched to using less expensive local as well as Polish make-up products, however there has always been a certain percentage of the women’s population who stick to selective brands. (references) | ||
Economic History | Russia | Semi-ready products like fillets, fish stick, canned fish, and vacuum packed fish are gaining in popularity. (references) |
Singapore | While Singapore consumers are particularly price conscious they tend to stick to the brands they are familiar with. (references) | |
Botswana | In an attempt to curb the rise in inflation, the Bank of Botswana (the central bank) is likely to stick to its tight monetary policy, whatever the other economic costs. (references) | |
Human Rights | Gambia | The encounter led to a fight, and the officer's helmet and stick disappeared. (references) |
Belize | Balcarcel's report to the Human Rights Commission and the Guatemalan Embassy claimed that he was stripped, handcuffed, burned with a lighter and habanero peppers on his genitals, beaten with a stick, and forced to drink his own urine. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | No action was taken against the members of the security forces responsible for torturing, beating, raping, or otherwise abusing persons in the following cases from 2000: The November beating of a foreign ICRC worker during an NDA attack on government forces in Kassala; the September incidents in which police used tear gas, batons, and live ammunition to disperse demonstrators and in some instances, beat or otherwise injured numerous individuals; the June beating in Hilla Kuku of a Catholic seminarian on the neck and wrist with a stick after he refused to remove a wooden cross that he was wearing; the June attack on Juba University in Khartoum using sticks and tear gas; the May raids by security forces on Alnasr Technology College in which they arrested, beat, injured students, and fired bullets in the air to disperse a student protest on education issues; and the February detention and beating of two students for political activity by security forces. (references) |
Trade | Oman | Stick on tape printed production and expiration dates are not acceptable. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OLEAGINOUS, adj. Oily, smooth, sleek. Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous." And the good prelate was ever afterward known as Soapy Sam. For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Julia Child | You want to keep the mouth open so that you can put an apple in. So I just use a ball of aluminum foil. I'm going to stick that in the mouth, and that keeps the mouth open while the pig is roasting. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Common sense tells me to stick to that steady course. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Because our economic problems are deeply rooted and will not respond to quick political fixes, we must stick to our carefully integrated plan for recovery. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Let us stick with a strategy that's working and keep the crime rate coming down. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "STICK" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 43.88% of the time. "STICK" is used about 3,850 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 43.88% | 1,689 | 4,959 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 38.17% | 1,469 | 5,519 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 17.88% | 688 | 9,642 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.05% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,850 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "STICK" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Stick | Last name | 300 | 29,599 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "STICK": A stick of eels ♦ be in a cleft stick ♦ beat with a stick ♦ beat with stick ♦ big stick ♦ Buff stick ♦ cache On A STick ♦ cancer stick ♦ carrot or stick ♦ carrot stick ♦ celery stick ♦ cleft stick ♦ composing stick ♦ control stick ♦ crooked stick ♦ cue stick ♦ Dan leno stick ♦ devil's walking stick ♦ dip stick ♦ dogwood stick ♦ dry as a stick ♦ dry stick ♦ dull stick ♦ fencing stick ♦ fiddle stick ♦ fire stick ♦ fish stick ♦ Foot stick ♦ get hold the wrong end of the stick ♦ get the stick ♦ get the wrong end of the stick ♦ give the stick ♦ Gold stick ♦ guess stick ♦ Gum stick ♦ gunning stick ♦ Gutter stick ♦ hockey stick ♦ ice hockey stick ♦ joss stick ♦ joy stick ♦ kohl stick ♦ lacrosse stick ♦ laundry stick ♦ licorice stick ♦ make smth. stick ♦ match stick ♦ measuring stick ♦ mesh stick ♦ message stick ♦ night stick ♦ oil stick ♦ orange stick ♦ piling stick ♦ planting stick ♦ pogo stick ♦ polo stick ♦ pool stick ♦ proof stick ♦ rack stick ♦ setting stick ♦ shaving stick ♦ shooting stick ♦ silver stick ♦ size stick ♦ ski stick ♦ slap stick ♦ slash with a stick ♦ stemming stick ♦ stick a knife into smth. ♦ stick a pig ♦ stick a poster on the wall ♦ stick a stamp on ♦ stick a stamp on a letter ♦ stick a stamp on the letter ♦ stick about ♦ stick around ♦ stick at ♦ stick at a job ♦ stick at nothing ♦ stick by ♦ stick by smb. ♦ stick chimney ♦ stick cinnamon ♦ stick close to smb. ♦ stick cohesion ♦ stick down ♦ stick fast ♦ stick figure ♦ stick firmly ♦ stick force ♦ stick forward ♦ stick horse ♦ stick in ♦ stick in one's throat ♦ stick in the mind ♦ stick in the mud ♦ stick in the throat ♦ stick insect ♦ stick into ♦ stick it. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "STICK": stick-a-bum, stick-and-ball, stick-and-carrot, stick-and-dog, stick-and-rudder, stick-figure, stick-float, stick-head, stick-insect, stick-in-the-mud, stick-in-the-muddish, stick-in-the-muds, Stick-lac, stick-licking, stick-like, stick-maker, stick-man, stick-microphone, stick-mikes, stick-nest, stick-on, stick-on address label, stick-pin, stick-pinned, Stick-seed, stick-signals, stick-that-in-your-pipe-and-smoke-it, stick-thin, stick-tight, stick-tight flea, stick-to-itiveness, stick-up, stick-waving. | |
Ending with "STICK": gear-stick, joss-stick, lip-stick, shooting-stick, swagger-stick, walking-stick. | |
Containing "STICK": box-stick-and-banana, candle-stick-maker, carrot-and-stick policy, joss-stick-scented, reinforce-and-stick-with-it, rum-stick-a-bum, self-stick note, walking-stick-in-the-hand. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
the magic stick | 4,428 | stick fighting | 266 |
death stick | 3,573 | kim lil lyrics magic stick | 214 |
lyrics magic stick | 1,868 | death stick figure | 201 |
memory stick | 1,452 | memory stick usb | 197 |
fighting figure stick | 1,193 | memory pro stick | 192 |
walking stick | 1,187 | stick people | 180 |
glow stick | 1,127 | glue stick | 174 |
stick | 701 | rpg stick | 171 |
stick figure | 683 | stuff stick | 168 |
sony memory stick | 628 | n stick stuff | 163 |
hockey stick | 589 | drive a stick shift | 162 |
compuhq drive justdeals livewarehouse memory mint pulled reader rebuilt refurb refurbished remanufactured stick usb | 551 | stick figure death theater | 158 |
lacrosse stick | 477 | light stick | 157 |
death.com stick | 399 | cue stick | 149 |
pool stick | 328 | com death stick | 143 |
kim lil magic stick | 325 | drum stick | 137 |
stick fight | 310 | man with stick | 136 |
50 cent lyrics magic stick | 307 | ugly stick | 132 |
50 cent featuring kim lil lyrics magic stick | 286 | incense stick | 132 |
50 cent magic stick | 282 | majic stick | 131 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "STICK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | stok (baton, cane), plak (glue, plate, sheet, slab, slice). (various references) | |
Albanian | shkop (bat, baton, Billy, cane, cudgel, pointer, pole, rod, roost, staff, truncheon, walking stick). (various references) | |
Arabic | الإلتصاقية, برز (accentuate, break out, bring out, bulge, come into view, display, emerge, excrete, feature, form, germinate, heighten, image, jut, outcrop, outdo, point, project, protrude, raise, relieve, shine, shoot, show up, spring, stand out, stick out), عصا (cane, leg, perch, pole, prop, staff, stave, switch, tally, truncheon), عانى (bear, brook, experience, know, pain, suffer), عائق (balk, bar, barrier, clog, deterrent, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, embarrassment, encumbrance, fencing, hamper, handicap, hindrance, impediment, inconvenience, interference, jam, liability, morass, obstruction, obstructive, restraint, setback, shackle, stumbling block, stymie, tie, trammel, traverse), طعنة (cut, hurt, prick, stab, thrust, twinge), ذبح (evert, kill, killing, massacre, murder, slain, slaughter, slay), سند بعود, العصا (baton), تردد (ambivalence, backwards, balance, be in two minds, boggle, crane, demur, difficulty, dither, fainting, falter, flicker, float, fluctuate, fluctuation, hang, haunt, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hover, hum and haw, indecision, irresolution, pause, perplexity, puzzle over, reticence, reverberate, scruple, shilly shally, sound, stop, stumble, tergiversation, timidity, vacillate, vacillation, vibrate, vibration, waver, wobble, worry), إنتصب (rear, recover, sit up, stand up, straighten up), أقحم (infix, inset, interject, interpolate, nuzzle, poke, squeeze, stab, stuff, thrust, wedge, work in, wring), أرهق بعبء, ثابر (lurk, persevere, persist), ثبت (affirm, anchor, assure, aver, belay, belt, bend, bite, bolt, bolt on, brace, cable, catch, chock, confirm, corroborate, countersign, demonstrate, display, endure, establish, evince, fastening, fix, lash, last, pin down, plant, prove, reinforce, secure, set, spike, stabilize, stay, steady, strengthen, substantiate, testify, validate, verify, warrant), شخص (baby, bloke, body, boy, cuss, customer, diagnose, effigy, embody, guy, individual, joker, man, person, personate, scout, sort, specimen, spirit), دعامة (abutment, armature, backlog, beam, brace, crutch, hold, leg, pier, pillar, prop, shore, slip, slipway, staff, stanchion, stock, strut, support), خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), قضيب (bar, baton, draw-bar, mace, penis, phallus, pointer, rail, rod, shaft, staff, stem, switch, wand), مقدار من مسكر, مقبض (grasp, grip, grip handle, haft, handgrip, handle, inlet, lever, lug, panhandle, power outlet, shaft, shank, socket, squeeze), مضرب (driver, drumstick, on, paddle, striker, striking), نتوء (bulge, bump, bunch, cusp, facet, jut, knob, ledge, lump, nub, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, salience, salient, shell, snag, spur, stick up), نتأ (beetle, bulge, butt, emboss, jut, pout, project, protrude, stick out), نسق قنابل, عقبة (barricade, block, blockade, bunker, difficulty, drawback, hitch, hurdle, inconvenience, interference, jam, obstacle, obstruction, snag, spine, stumbling block), قطعة من أثاث, كوم (accumulate, amass, bank, heap, heap up, hill up, jam, lumber, pile, pile up, rake, scrape, stack, tamp, tumble), وخزة (prick), واظب (peg away, persevere, worry at), غوص في الرمل, غرز (batter, bog, drawing pin, impact, implant, jam, lodge, pike, plant, plunge, poke, push, sink, stab, stick in, thrust), حشر (cram, crush, poke, push, ram, squash, thrust), تحمل (afford, bear, bear up, bearing, decamp, defray, endure, firmness, have smb. over, hold out, incur, last, lump it, mizzle, pocket, put up with, see, stand, stick it out, stomach, suffer, support, sustain, tighten, tolerate, undergo), تسمر (nailing), لصق (affix, cement, fasten, fix, glue, gum, paste, patch, post, splice, stick down, unite). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бодвам (pink, pinprick, prick, prickle, prod), диригентска палка (baton), загазвам (flounder), залоствам се, забождам (pin up), забивам пръчка, забивам (drive in, embed, fix, grind into, hammer, jab, knock home, nail, plant, plunge, ram, sink, smash, thrust, thrust in), запазвам се (keep, last, persist, stand, stick on, survive), запирам се, лепя се, лепя (agglutinate, glue, gum, hang, stick in), лепна, затруднявам (beat, complicate, embarrass, encumber, hamper, hinder, nonplus, overwhelm, put out, straiten, stump, trouble), бодване (prick, prod, puncture), мамя (cozen, deceive, dupe, fiddle, flim-flam, gag, gouge, hocus, hoodwink, impose, jockey, juggle, mock, play along, play possum with, rook, shark, string along, take, twist, victimize), бода (offend, prick, prickle, prong, stab), бастун (cane, walking stick), пъхам (dig, infix, poke, pop, put in, shove, thrust), пръчка (bar, bastinado, rod), прът (club, pivot, pole, rod, upright), пробождам (impale, jab, prong, puncture, run through, skewer, thrust through, transfix), показвам (demonstrate, denote, dial, disclose, display, evince, exhibit, give, indicate, manifest, present, proclaim, protrude, read, register, show, show around, signify, tell, trot, witness), понасям (bear, bear off, bide, carry, carry off, digest, drag along, go, incur, play along, pocket, see, stand, suffer, support, sweep away, take, tolerate, undergo), полепвам (adhere, cling), палка (billet, club, cosh, truncheon, wand), инертен човек, държа се (acquit oneself, act, bear, bear up, comport, comport oneself, conduct oneself, demean, deport oneself, hold, hold on, hold one's own, quit, stand out, walk), бутвам (tip), гористи пущинаци, стърча (bulge, jut, jut out, override, project, protrude, stand out, wait about), стрък (blade, growth, shoot, stem), стоя (abide, keep, remain, sit, sit up, stand, stay, tarry), слагам (apply, deposit, fit in, fix, ground, implant, impose, lay, lay down, pass, pitch, place, plank down, pop, posit, position, pull on, put, put down, put in, put on, put to, rest, run, set, sew on, ship, stand, stick down, vat), ръгам (jab, poke, prod, thrust), цигара от марихуана, търпя (abide, accept, admit, bear, digest, endure, play along, put up with, suffer, support, tolerate), турям (put, put on, set), тояга (bat, club, cudgel, staff), компас (compass, dial, galley, setting-stick), коля (butcher, kill, massacre, murder, slaughter), закучвам се, клечка (peg), съчка, втиквам (infix, insert, plant, push in), вкарвам (draw in, drive, drive in, fit in, get in, introduce, let in, put in, set, thrust, wheel in), вземам повече такса, вземам повече пари, оставам (abide, continue, endure, let, persist, remain, remain behind, stay, stay behind, void), озадачавам (bepuzzle, bewilder, floor, flummox, hobble, intrigue, maze, mystify, perplex, pose, puzzle, rattle, stick up for, stumble, stump, vex), набождам се, наблъсквам (congest, cram in, huddle, pack in). (various references) | |
Catalan | pal (baton, cane). (various references) | |
Chinese | 棍子 (rod). (various references) | |
Czech | probodnout (impale, Pierce, Pike, pink, prick, stab, transfix), držet (adhere, hold, keep), hùl (baton, crook, rod, staff), klacek (bludgeon, bully, club, cudgel, hobbledehoy, lout, lubber), násada (butt, haft, handle, helve), nalepit (hang), přilepit (affix, attach, glue on, paste, paste on), připnout (tack), dřevo (block, Holt, sap-wood, timber, wood), porazit (bear down, beat, best, butcher, chop down, conquer, cut down, defeat, fell, hack down, hew, hew down, kill, knock down, overthrow, overturn, run down, smite, strike down, stump, tumble, vanquish), zastrèit (bolt, hold in, insert, push down, slip, tuck, tuck in), prolévat (shed), prut (bar, rod, wand, weal), taktovka (baton), tyè (bar, pole, post, rail, rod, scape, shank, staff, upright), vìtvièka (twig), vìzet (inhere), vrazit (Bury, poke, put, stick in, strike, thrust), zapíchnout, podepřít tyèkou. (various references) | |
Danish | klæbe (sticking, to stick). (various references) | |
Dutch | vastkleven, stokje (little stick, rod, switch, wand), staf (baton, cane, staff), kleven (adhere, soldering, sticking, sticking mark, stuck, to stick), aanhangen (adhere to). (various references) | |
Esperanto | gluiĝi, glui (glue), bastono (baton, cane), bastoneto (little stick), algluiĝi. (various references) | |
Faeroese | stavur (baton, cane), líma (glue). (various references) | |
Farsi | گیرکردن (Stymie), الصاق کردن , عصا (Bat, Cane, Rod, Wand), سوراخ کردن 1 (Bore, Broach, Delve, Gimlet, Gore, Impale, Notch, Perforate, Punch, Puncture, Scuttle, Slot, Spit, Stab, Steek, Thrust, Transfix), تردیدکردن (Doubt, Totter), تاخیر (Deferment, Demur, Retardation, Subsequence), تحمل چسبیدن , وضع (Aspect, Behavior, Deduction, Demeanour, Gesture, Imposition, Lie, Mien, Ordonnance, Phase, Poise, Pose, Position, Posture, Self, Setup, Situation, Speed, Stance, Station, Status, Trim), الصاق (Adherence, Adhesion), گیرافتادن (Pin, Strand, Tangle), فرورفتن (Merge, Sink), کردن (Braid, Do, Fold, Gig, Grade, Ground, Hatch, Have, Hinder, Joint, List, Lob, Pass, Peer, Perform, Pickup, Poop, Ramble, Rest, Set, Settle, Tag, Thread, Tip), نصب کردن (Fix, Mount, Pitch, Setup, Uprear), چسباندن (Agglutinate, Attach, Bind, Cement, Glue, Gum, Paste), چسبندگی (Adherence, Cohesion, Tenacity), چسبناک (Cohesive, Goo, Gooey, Slab, Sticky, String, Tacky), چوب (Rod, Shaft, Spunk, Stave, Timber, Wood), چماق (Bat, Bludgeon, Cudgel, Mace, Maul, Stave), پیچ درکار, وقفه (Abeyance, Break, Caesura, Cease, Chasm, Deadlock, Gap, Hiatus, Interval, Jib, Paralysis, Pause, Standstill, Station, Suspension). (various references) | |
Finnish | puikko (knitting needle, pin, suppository), keppi (baton, cane). (various references) | |
French | stick, canne, crosse (lacrosse stick, staff), coller (stick down), baguette (piling stick, piling strip, stacking strip, sticker, strip), bâtonnet (little stick), bâton (staff). (various references) | |
Frisian | lymje (glue). (various references) | |
German | Stock (baton, cane, cue, floor, massif, pointer, pot plant, rock mass, roots, rosebush, staff, stock, stocks, storey, story, vine), Stab (bar, baton, cane, crook, crosier, dipstick, headquarters, Mace, panel, pole, rail, rod, staff, stave, stump, swab, wand), Stecken (baton, be, be hiding, be pinned, be sticking, be stuck, cane, case, devote, enter, insert, jack in, lay down, pick, pin, pin up, place, plant, plug, plunge, poke, pop, put, put down, put in, put up, set, slot, stab, sting, thrust, tuck), stechen (be prickly, beat down, bite, check out, clock in, clock on, cut, engrave, jab, kill, pang, pick, Pierce, prick, prickle, puncture, ring in, run off, spear, stab, sting, take, take the trick, twinge), kleben (adhere, cleave, cleft, cling, cloven, glue, gum, hang, hanging, paste, splice, tape, to paste, to splice). (various references) | |
Greek | κολλώ (adhere, cleave, cling, contract, glue, gum, gum up, intrude, paste, size, solder, stick stuck stuck). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | shkop (baton, cane). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקל (extenuating, ferule, indulgent, lenient, palliative, rod, staff, stave, switch), מקוש (clapper, drumstick, gong, striker), לתקוע (jab, poke, toot), לדקור (needle, prick, stab, thrust), לדבוק (adhere, cleave, cling, gum, join), לנעוץ (fasten, fix upon, insert, spear, stab, thrust), שבט (baton, clan, family, rod, sceptre, tribe), קנה (cane, Reed, rod, stalk, stem), ענף (bough, branch, branchy, extensive, ramified, sector, sprig, sprout, widespread), חוטרא, אדם משעמם. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bot (baton, cane, pole, rod, staff, stave), husáng (baton, cane, cudgel, spear). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tongkat (cane, goad, paddle, staff, truncheon, wand), menempel (adhere, cling, glue, patch), gantel (hang from), bertempel (be next to), batang (corpse, log, pole, rod, stem, trunk). (various references) | |
Italian | appiccicare (be sticky, glue), incollare (adhere, cleave, glue, paste, stick on), ficcare (dive, drive, poke, pop in, put, ram, shove, stuff, thrust), canna (barrel, cane, canna, crossbar, fishing rod, funnel, pipe, Reed, rod), bastone (baton, cane, club, perch, rod, truncheon, walkingstick), bastoncino (switch). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鞭 (counter for whipping, whip), 棍棒 (club, cudgel), 棒切れ (bit of a broken pole, piece of wood), 棒 (pole, rod), ステアリン酸 (dance step, stacker, state, status, steal, stearic acid, Stegodon, Stegosaurus, step, step-by-step, stepfamily, steppe, stepping, steps, sticker, stinger, stitch, thingirl). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぼうきれ (bit of a broken pole, piece of wood), ぼう (ancient Chinese imperial jewels, certain, divide, fourth sign of Chinese zodiac, length, net, one, people, pole, rod, shaggy dog, shaggy hair), こんぼう (club, cudgel, earnest request, entreaty, mixed spinning, mixed yarn, solicitation), ステッキ , スティック , むち (ignorance, shameless, stupidity, whip). (various references) | |
Korean | 지방이 (Sticks&Stones). (various references) | |
Manx | seiy (agitate, bear down, churn, churning, foment, fomentation, gore, gore of bull, knife, litter, lunge, mix up, mixing, mixture, muddy; pushing, prod, propel, propulsion, protrusion, push, shove, shoving, stab, stir, stir up, thrust, tilt, tilting, transfix), maidjey (bail, bail in stable, bar, bar on doorway, bat, boarding, club, cue, lever, pitprop, pointer, pole, rod, straddle, wooden), lhiantyn (attach, clinging, habitual, obsess, run on, stick on, take after), lhiannaghtyn, greimmey (adhere, adherence, adherence of person, adhesion, attach, bite, bite off, catch, clutch, fishing tackle, grab, grasp, grip, gripping, hold, jam, lock in, monopolization, nab, pin on, seize, seizing, snap, snatch, snatch away, snatching, stitch, stitch up, tooth), crouw (branch of society, bunch, bush, dwarf tree, Masonic lodge, stock, tributary of river, wide spreading tree). (various references) | |
Maya | tak (to stick). (various references) | |
Norwegian | stokk (baton, cane). (various references) | |
Papiamen | takon (baton, cane), takòn (baton, cane), palu (baton, cane, pole, post, stake, stanchion, timber, tree, wood), leim (glue), baston (baton, cane), bastòn (baton, cane). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ickstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bastão (bat, baton, billy, cane, mace, mallet, rod, staff, wand), vara (baton, cane, ell, fish rod, herd, pole, staff, stake, stalk, switch, wand, wattle), pau (bar, baton, cane, mast, pole, rod, tent-peg, timber, wood), colar (affix, attach, beads, bind, bung, chain, collar, collate, crib, glue, gum, necklace, paste), bordão (baton, cane, fish rod, rod, staff, stave, support), bengala (baton, Bengal, cane). (various references) | |
Romanian | suporta (abide, bear, bear with, digest, endure, forbear, stand, stomach, suffer, support, sustain, tolerate), suferi (abide, ail, allow, bear, Brook, carry out, endure, experience, go through, have, languish, permit, put up with, smart, stand, suffer, undergo), se lipi (adhere, cling, cuddle, hook on, snuggle, solder), se înfige, înfunda (clog, head, obstruct, pad, shove, stuff), barã (balk, bar, gate, ingot, joist, pig, strut), baghetã (rod, switch, wand), bãga (Bob, drive, immerse, impress, insert, interject, introduce, intrude, invest, involve, jab, land, Lodge, put in, Stow, stuff, thrust, tuck), bãţ (bat, club, gad, rod, switch), arcuş (bow), aman, aderare (adherence, adhering, espousal), baston (bat, baton, cane, cudgel, Mace, rod, staff, stave, walking stick), înfundare (choke, packing), catarg (mast, topmast), înfige (dig, drive, hurl, infix, run, set, thrust), îndura (abide, bear, carry out, endure, experience, forbear, indurate, put up with, suffer, support, sustain, undergo), înţepa (bite, prick, prickle, puncture, sting), împunsãturã (butt, cant, dig, jab, jeer, jest, pang, prick, prod, stitch, tack, thrust), aşeza (arrange, bed, beset, bestow, build, collocate, dispose, encase, establish, fall, fix, impose, lay, lay |