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Definition: Sticker |
StickerNoun1. A sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf. 2. An adhesive label. 3. A particularly difficult or baffling question or problem. 4. A short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sticker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | Any substance, solid or liquid, that, when added to a pesticide, increases the latter's adherence to surfaces on which it is deposited. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | A slip of paper with gummed back. . . that when moistened adheres to a surface against which it is pressed. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | Small dowel of wood which connects the back end of the key with the pull-down wire of the pallet. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | An adjuvant, such as oil, mixed with the spray solution to form a thin film over the plant surface, that holds the toxicant in intimate contact with the cell. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A stick or strip of wood used to separate courses in a stack and so improve air circulation. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Industry | Consists of pictures, designs or lettering in single or multiple colours, lithographed or otherwise printed on absorbent lightweight paper, often backed with a supporting paper of heavier qu ality; used for decoration or utility purposes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | An american term for a lump formed on the surface of a casting, due to a portion of the mould face adhering to the pattern. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Mends broken marble slabs to restore them to usable condition, using either of following methods: (1) Cleans broken surfaces with wire brush. Heats surfaces with gas torch. Smears shellac evenly over heated surfaces from stick while playing torch flame on stick to thoroughly melt shellac. Presses broken surfaces of slabs tightly together and wipes surplus shellac from joint. Clamps sections together and allows shellac to dry. May drill holes into opposing surfaces of broken slab sections with drill press or portable electric drill and join broken slab sections with dowel pins in addition to shellac. (2) Lays broken grooved sections of slab wrong side up on bench and fits them together. Heats marble along groove with blowtorch. Inserts sulfur-coated steel rod to completely fill groove (sulfur expands during cooling to lock rod in groove). Scrapes off excess sulfur and allows joint to set. (references) |
| Performs any combination of following tasks to make ice cream novelties, such as pies, cake rolls, cones, and vari-colored packs: Ladles fruit sauce over ice cream pie. Places layer of cake roll on tray and sets tray on conveyor. Cuts continuous ribbon of ice cream deposited on cake, using knife. Rolls up cake. Places roll in slicing machine and pulls lever to cut and eject slices onto packing table. Rotates transparent containers under nozzle that fills containers with vari-colored ice cream. Places cones, cups, pie plates, and other containers into dispenser of automatic filling machines. (references) | |
| Attaches handles and knobs to cups and other greenware preparatory to bisque firing: Trims ends of handle to fit ware. Dips ends of handle in slip (semiliquid clay) and presses handle onto clay piece in position specified. Trims and smooths joint, using handtools and wet sponge. May finish ware before attaching handles [FINISHER (pottery & porc.)]. (references) | |
| Glues pieces of hides, such as rabbit, beaver, muskrat, or nutria to paper sheets to facilitate machine cutting of fur from skin: Brushes glue onto paper sheets. Presses bits of fur, skin side down, onto glued surface to create fur area large enough to be accommodated by clipping machine that cuts fur from skins. (references) | |
| Pulls reclaimed stickers from conveyors or portable bins and places them in racks of stacking machine. Moves levers on panel to open or lock racks according to number and spacing of stickers required between lumber courses, or places stickers between lumber courses manually. (references) | |
| Glues paper-covered wire to artificial flowers to stiffen and strengthen them. May emboss simulated veins on leaves. (references) | |
| Severs jugular vein with knife to slaughter suspended fowl passing on overhead conveyor. (references) | |
Transportation | Material placed crosswise whithin bundles extending for width of bundles only. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: StickerSynonyms: dagger (n), gummed label (n), paster (n), poser (n), pricker (n), prickle (n), spine (n), stumper (n), thorn (n), toughie (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sticker |
| Specialty definitions using "sticker": AUTOMOBILE TESTER ♦ BOW MAKER ♦ CLOTH-DOUBLING-AND-WINDING-MACHINE OPERATOR, crippleware ♦ DELI CUTTER-SLICER, doubling-and-rolling-machine operator, doubling-machine operator ♦ farm butcher ♦ GRAPE ♦ MEAT DRESSER, motor-vehicle inspector ♦ vehicle-safety inspector ♦ wide-cloth folder. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sticker": Pegador. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sticker" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (sticker), Italian (sticker). |
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Screenplays | Now that's where I got you, wise guy, there's a black guy who works down at the building with me, he's got a bumper sticker on his car that says 'Black is Beautiful' so what's the matter with black beauties (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) | |
Lyrics | Out on the road today I saw a DEADHEAD sticker (The Boys of Summer; performing artist: Don Henley) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fridolf sticker opp! (1958) Barbie Sticker Designer (1999) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Graphic of briefcase sticker art lauding NOAA A-D, the first of the TIROS-N polar-orbiting satellites. Only NOAA-A and NOAA-C ultimately became operational . Credit: NOAA in Space. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Us postage" by Feike Kloostra Commentary: "A close-up of a US postage sticker." | "Caution" by Jason Krieger Commentary: "Pic of a caution sticker on an electric meter." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Bill Hicks | I'll tell you, too, that's starting to depress me about UFO's, about the fact that they cross galaxies, or wherever they come from to visit us, and always end up in places like Fife, Alabama. Maybe these are not super-intelligent beings, man. Maybe they're like hillbilly aliens. Some intergalactic Joad family or something. "Don't you all want to land in New York, or L.A.?" "Nah, we just had a long trip, we gonna kick back and whittle some." Oh, my God, they're idiots. "We're gonna enter our mothership in the tractor pull!" My God, we're being invaded by rednecks. My biggest fear. Last thing I want to see is a flying saucer up on blocks in front of some trailer, you know? Wouldn't that be depressing? Some bumper sticker on it - "They'll get my ray gun when they pry my cold, dead, eighteen-fingered hand off of it." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He walked slowly to the front of it, put his hand on the shiny fender, and looked at the (r)No Riders * sticker on the windshield |
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Health | Lancet–a disposable, sharp needle-like sticker for pricking the finger to obtain a drop of blood. (references) | |
Trade | Egypt | Any amendments can be done on a sticker. (references) |
China | Importers are charged five to seven cents per sticker, and the stickers must be affixed under State Administration. (references) | |
Philippines | A sticker indicating the name and address of the importer must be attached if such information is not printed on the label. (references) | |
Travel | Austria | Motorists who do not possess the appropriate sticker are subject to a fine. (references) |
Slovak Rep | If use of a rental car is planned, try to rent a vehicle that already has a sticker showing that the road fee has been paid. (references) | |
Austria | Cars rented in neighboring countries may or may not be equipped with the sticker, so please remember to obtain one from your car rental agency. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GRAPE, n. Hail noble fruit! -- by Homer sung, Anacreon and Khayyam; Thy praise is ever on the tongue Of better men than I am. The lyre in my hand has never swept, The song I cannot offer: My humbler service pray accept -- I'll help to kill the scoffer. The water-drinkers and the cranks Who load their skins with liquor -- I'll gladly bear their belly-tanks And tap them with my sticker. Fill up, fill up, for wisdom cools When e'er we let the wine rest. Here's death to Prohibition's fools, And every kind of vine-pest! Jamrach Holobom |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sticker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sticker" is used about 182 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) | 100% | 182 | 22,870 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "sticker" 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 |
| Sticker | Last name | 300 | 27,048 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "sticker": bill sticker ♦ bumper sticker ♦ sticker price ♦ window sticker. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "sticker": bumper-sticker, pig-sticker. | |
Containing "sticker": elongated-labial-sticker-on-guitar-strap. | |
| 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 |
sticker | 3,349 | sticker and decals | 87 |
bumper sticker | 2,221 | funny sticker | 86 |
american flag sticker | 1,044 | skateboard sticker | 85 |
free sticker | 718 | chicago city sticker | 79 |
car sticker | 634 | free bumper sticker | 79 |
funny bumper sticker | 345 | band sticker | 77 |
hologram sticker | 322 | cool sticker | 77 |
custom sticker | 304 | security sticker | 75 |
scrapbook sticker | 255 | sticker planet | 72 |
scrapbooking sticker | 239 | dicker no sticker | 71 |
window sticker | 194 | paintball sticker | 69 |
helmet sticker | 134 | car window sticker | 65 |
custom bumper sticker | 132 | fox racing sticker | 64 |
vinyl sticker | 119 | bumber sticker | 63 |
roxy sticker | 98 | grateful dead sticker | 63 |
motorcycle sticker | 97 | sticker volcom | 62 |
auto sticker | 92 | motorcycle helmet sticker | 62 |
wall sticker | 91 | flag sticker | 61 |
sticker vending machine | 90 | free skateboard sticker | 58 |
surf sticker | 88 | holographic sticker | 58 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "sticker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | njeri që ngjit afishet, njeri i këmbëngulës, gjemb (barb, blackthorn, pricker, prickle, spine, thorn), afishe (bill, placard, playbill, poster, show bill). (various references) | |
Arabic | لاصقة, ورقة لاصقة, الملازم لعمله. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | упорит човек, разлепвач на афиши (poster), труден за разрешаване проблем, гост който се застоява, етикет (ceremonial, check, docket, etiquette, formality, label, stamp, tab, tally, ticket), афиш (placard, poster, show bill, show card), бавен играч. (various references) | |
Chinese | 屠夫. (various references) | |
Czech | nálepka (hinge, label). (various references) | |
Danish | stroe (bearer plates, cradle, crosser, fillet, grit, piling stick, piling strip, pin, stacking strip, strip), stikpersonale, sandklat (clagging, sand sticking to pattern), transfer (decal, decalcomania, transfer, transparency, window sticker), overfoeringsbillede (decal, decalcomania, transfer, transparency, window sticker), klaebemiddel (adherent, adhering agent, agglutinant, agglutinating substance, filming agent). (various references) | |
Dutch | sticker (transfer), sluitzegel. (various references) | |
Esperanto | glumarko. (various references) | |
Farsi | دشنه زن , دشنه (Bowieknife, Dirk, Spit, Stiletto). (various references) | |
Finnish | välipuu (crosser, dominated, dunnage, fillet, intermediate, piling stick, piling strip, pin, stacking strip, strip, subdominant), telapuu (bearer, bolster, crosser, dunnage, fillet, piling stick, piling strip, pin, stacking strip, strip), tarrakuva, Tarra (self-fastening), mainosjuliste (bill, poster), kiinnite (filming agent, fixative), kiiltokuva. (various references) | |
French | étiquette (stamp). (various references) | |
German | aufkleber (adhesive label, badge, bumper sticker, label, seal, stamp, stickers). (various references) | |
Greek | κολλητσίδα (burr, catchweed, cleavers, goose-grass, hariff, heriff, lesser burdock, paritory, pellitory-of-the-wall), κολλητήσ (cementer, paster), ράβδος,τάκος,βελόνη (crosser, fillet, piling stick, piling strip, pin, stacking strip, strip), προσκολλητικόν μέσον (adherent, adhering agent), προσκολλητική ουσία (adhesive, filming agent), χαλκομανία (decal, decalcomania, transfer, transparency, window sticker), επιγραφή διά κόλληση, άμμος κολλημένη στο πρότυπο χύτευσης (clagging, sand sticking to pattern), αυτοκόλλητη ετικέτα, αυτοκόλλητο, Αυτοκόλλητη ετικέτα, ο πραγματοποιών την αφαίμαξη. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מדבקה (label, tag), תוית הדבקה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | böllér. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tempelan (poster). (various references) | |
Italian | sticker, sgozzatore, vetrofania (transfer), listello (groin, lath), Etichetta autoadesiva, etichetta (ceremonial, etiquette, formalization, label, tab, tag, ticket), difetto per aderenza (clagging, sand sticking to pattern), decalcomania (transfer), contrassegno (attribute, cachet, characteristic, counter, countersign, earmark, Mark, tally), asportazione di terra (clagging, sand sticking to pattern), agente adesivo (filming agent), adesivo (adhesion, adhesive, sticking, sticky). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 貼り紙 (label, poster), レスキュー隊 (label, ladies, ladies first, lady, Lady Borden, laisser-faire, lead, led, leg warmers, lesbian, lesser panda, lesson, letter, letter facsimile, letterhead, lettering, lettuce, medical practitioners' receipt for health insurance claim, medical prescription, ready-made, reception, red, red purge, red tape, Redmond, rescue squad, resolution, resonance, respirator, response, rest, rest house, rest room, restaurant, restaurant hotel, restaurant theater, retort, retouch, rhetoric, tow truck, wrestling), ステアリン酸 (dance step, stacker, state, status, steal, stearic acid, Stegodon, Stegosaurus, step, step-by-step, stepfamily, steppe, stepping, steps, stick, stinger, stitch, thingirl), シーリング方式 (ceiling system, seal, seal set, set of stickers, shield, shield room). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | レッテル (label), ステッカー (stacker), シール (seal), はりがみ (label, paper backing, paper patch, poster). (various references) | |
Korean | 스티커. (various references) | |
Manx | seiyder (agitator, mixer, pusher, shover, stirrer, thruster), greimmeyder (biter, fixative, grab, grabber, grasper, holder, mordant, snapper, stitcher), feysht creoi (poser, tickler), festeyder (adherer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ickerstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | etiqueta (ceremony, docket, etiquette, formality, punctilio, rite, tag, tally, ticket), aderente (adherent, adherents, adherer, adhering, cohesive, retainer), adesivo (adhesive, clammy, clinging, cloggy, strapping), agente adesivo (filming agent), cartaz (card, notice, placard, playbill, showbill), decalcomania (decal, decalcomania, transfer, transparency, window sticker), adepto (acolyte, adept, adherent, camp-follower, follower, professor, proselyte, supporter), degolador (cutthroat), vista que demora muito, Etiqueta autocolante, indivíduo perseverante, partidário (acolyte, adept, adherent, backer, follower, friend, obedientiary, partisan, party, professor, proselyte, pursuivant, retainer, upholder, votary), régua de empilhamento (crosser, fillet, piling stick, piling strip, pin, stacking strip, strip), rótulo aderente, trabalhador incansável, defeito de fundição por incrustações de areia (clagging, sand sticking to pattern). (various references) | |
Russian | колючка (barb, pricker, prickle, thorn), клей (adhesive, cement, glue, gum, paste, size), наклейка (sticky label), залежавшийся товар, афиша (bill, handbill, notice, placard, playbill, poster, show bill, show-bill), приверженец (adherent, devotee, henchman, stalwarts, supporter, votary). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nalepnica (label, sticky label). (various references) | |
Spanish | rastrel (crosser, fillet, piling stick, piling strip, pin, stacking strip, strip), rótulo transparente (transfer), persona aplicada, pegatina, incrustaciones no metálicas (clagging, sand sticking to pattern), incrustaciones de arena (clagging, sand sticking to pattern), etiqueta engomada, etiqueta autoadhesiva, calcomanía (decalcomania, transfer), adhesivo (adherent, adhesive, stick on), adherente (adherent, follower, retainer). (various references) | |
Swedish | strö (bedding, brancard, strew), Självhäftande etikett, märke (Dent, device, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, label, make, Mark, pock, score, sense, sign, stigma, tag, tally, trace, weal), klistrare (filming agent), ihärdig person (bulldog), hyllvärmare, filmbildare (filming agent). (various references) | |
Turkish | yapıştıran kimse, yapışkan tip (barnacle, gadfly, nudnik, old man of the sea), piyano kolu, kasap bıçağı, kasap (butcher, killer, slaughterer), inatçı (balky, bullet-head, bull-headed, cantankerous, contrary, contumacious, cussed, die hard, difficult, dogged, dour, fractious, hard bitten, hard-headed, hard-mouthed, hard-nosed, headstrong, heady, indocile, inflexible, insistent, intractable, mule, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, obstinate person, opinionated, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, self willed, self-opinionated, set, spiky, stern, stickler, sticky, stiff necked, strongheaded, strong-willed, stubborn, tenacious, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), etiket (docket, etiquette, flag, label, tab, tag, tally, ticket). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | колючка (barb, bur, prick, prickle, stickleback, thorn, tiddler), колюча зброя, клейка речовина (viscidity), етикетка (docket, label). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vấn đề hắc búa (gordian knot, poser), người hay đến ám (stickler), người chọc. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sticker": stickers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sticker": pigsticker. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sticker": pigstickers. (additional references) | |
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"Sticker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shicker, Spicker, sticke, stickum, stricker. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sticker" (pronounced sti"ker) |
| 4 | -t i" k er | ticker. |
| 3 | -i" k er | Bicker, clicker, Dicker, flicker, kicker, licker, liquor, picker, quicker, sicker, slicker, snicker, thicker, vicar, whicker, wicker. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rickets, tickers. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-k-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: citers, ickers, kiters, sicker, steric, strick, strike, ticker, trices, tricks, trikes. | |
-2 letters: cesti, cires, citer, cites, crest, cries, icker, keirs, kiers, kiter, kites, recks, recti, rices, ricks, rites, siker, skier, skirt, skite, stick, stirk, ticks, tiers, tikes, tires, treks, trice, trick, tries, trike. | |
-3 letters: cire, cist, cite, cris, erst, etic, ices, ires, irks. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-k-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: chirkest, corkiest, crickets, prickets, rockiest, stickers, stickier, stickler, stockier, stricken, strickle, ticklers, trickers, trickles. | |
+2 letters: brickiest, crankiest, creakiest, croakiest, detickers, heartsick, picketers, prickiest, sidetrack, sketchier, sticklers, strickled, strickles, trackside, trickiest, tricksier, trickster. | |
+3 letters: artichokes, backbiters, breadstick, clerkliest, crackliest, cricketers, crinkliest, freckliest, fruitcakes, interlocks, meterstick, nitpickers, overtricks, pigsticker, prickliest, puckeriest, racketiest, restacking, restocking, restricken, ricketiest, rickettsia, rocketries, sidetracks, stockpiler, superthick, tackifiers, taperstick, thickeners, tracksides, trickeries, trickiness, trickliest, tricksiest, tricksters, trucklines. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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