stick in Malayalam മലയാളം
stick in Marathi मराठी
stick in Sindhi سنڌي
stick in English
- stick⇄adj. sticklike.
- stick⇄expr. in a cleft stick, (Especially British.) in a position from which it is impossible either to advance or retreat; in a dilemma.
Ex. The other side are in a cleft stick; they cannot go on long as they are, and they cannot stir into any new path - stick⇄expr. shake a stick at, (U.S. Informal.) to take notice of.
Ex. There were just a few flakes, not enough snow to shake a stick at. - stick⇄expr. stick around, (Informal.)
a. to stay or wait nearby.
Ex. I'll stick around for a while, but then I must go.
b. to remain in a place; stay on.
Ex. The members of the office staff who stick around long enough to get to know - stick⇄expr. stick at, to hesitate or stop for.
Ex. He sticks at nothing in order to get his own way. She's not a woman to stick at trifles (George Meredith). - stick⇄expr. stick by (or to), to remain resolutely faithful or attached to; refuse to desert.
Ex. He sticks by his friends when they are in trouble. - stick⇄expr. stick it out, (Informal.) to put up with unpleasant conditions or circumstances; endure.
Ex. Try to stick it out for a few more days. - stick⇄expr. stick out,
a. (Informal.) to put up with until the end.
Ex. By this method, companies, and sometimes whole battalions, which had stuck out the shellfire, were overwhelmed and annihilated (E. W. Hamilton).
b. to stand out; be pla - stick⇄expr. stick together, to keep or cling together; stay united; support each other or one another.
Ex. While we live we will stick together; one fate shall belong to us all (Elisha K. Kane). - stick⇄expr. stick up for, (Informal.) to stand up for; support; defend.
Ex. I shall always like him [Whittier] the better for sticking up for old New England (James Russell Lowell). - stick⇄expr. stick up, (Slang.) to hold up; rob.
Ex. The [hotel's] long-suffering night clerk ... has been stuck up three times in the last two months (Time). - stick⇄expr. sticks,
a. pieces of cut or broken branches or pieces of cut and chopped wood, used as fuel.
Ex. Mr. Phillips has laid the paper, the sticks, and the coals neatly in the grate (Arthur Symons).
b. wooden pieces of anything.stick⇄expr. the sticks, (U.S. Informal.) the outlying or undeveloped districts; backwoods.
Ex. The past theatrical season may have been the worst in living memory, but it was a series of flops in Manhattan, not in the sticks (Saturday Review).stick⇄noun 1. a thrust; stab.
2. sticky condition or quality; adhesiveness.
3. a standstill; stop.
4. a cause of delay; obstacle; impediment.
Ex. That should be no stick to you (Stevenson). When we came to the Hill Difficulty he madestick⇄noun 1a. a long, thin piece of wood.
Ex. Put some sticks on the fire.
(SYN) rod, staff.
b. such a piece of wood shaped for a special use.
Ex. a walking stick, a hockey stick.
c. such a piece used as a weapon; club; cudgelstick⇄stick (1), noun, verb, sticked,sticking.stick⇄stick (2), verb, stuck,sticking,noun.stick⇄v.i. 1. to be thrust; extend.
Ex. His arms stick out of his coat sleeves.
2. to keep close.
Ex. The little boy stuck to his mother's heels. He sticks here instead of getting out into the world and enjoying the fight (Sinclair Lewis).stick⇄v.t. 1. to furnish with a stick or sticks to support or prop.
2. (Printing.) to arrange (type) in a composing stick.stick⇄v.t. 1a. to pierce with a pointed instrument.
Ex. to stick a potato with a fork.
b. to thrust (a point) into; stab.
Ex. He stuck his fork into the potato.
2. to kill by stabbing or piercing.
Ex. stick him like a calf (Tenn