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Sticks

/stɪks/

An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.

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📖 Definitions of "Sticks"

noun

1
An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
2
Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
"Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick."
3
Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
4
A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.

verb

1
To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
2
To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
"to stick type"
3
To furnish or set with sticks.

verb

1
To become or remain attached; to adhere.
"The tape will not stick if it melts."
2
To jam; to stop moving.
"The lever sticks if you push it too far up."
3
To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
4
To persist.
"His old nickname stuck."

noun

1
Criticism or ridicule.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Sticks"

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Word	Definition
clingnoun	Adherence; attachment; devotion.
billynoun	A billy goat.
depositnoun	(banking) Money placed in a bank account, as for safekeeping or to earn interest.
pinnoun	A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
wedgenoun	One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
pegnoun	A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
adhereverb	(intransitive) To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united.
truncheonnoun	A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer.
nightsticknoun	(US, law enforcement) A long, narrow, polelike club carried by police and security personnel, for use in self-defense.
bindnoun	(countable) That which binds or ties.
stingnoun	A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.
lodgenoun	A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
reefernoun	(countable) A marijuana cigarette.
joysticknoun	A mechanical control device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer, or other equipment.
control sticknoun	(aviation) A joystick.
cohereverb	(intransitive, figurative) To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose.
staynoun	Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
jointnoun	(anatomy) Any part of an animalian body where two bones or exoskeleton segments are abutted, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
stay putverb	(idiomatic) To remain in one fixed place
stick aroundverb	(informal) To stay; to linger; to remain.