My book got wet and all the pages have stuck together. See also non-stick. Although her name is Clare, her little sister called her Lali, and somehow the name stuck.
She licked the stamps and stuck them on the parcel. I stuck a 50p stamp on the envelope. Helga stuck her posters up with Blu-Tack. I stuck the notice up on the board.
The glue had set and my hand was stuck fast. She stuck her fingers in her ears so that she couldn't hear the noise. I'll pay for lunch - I can stick it on my expenses. I'll just stick my bag down. Just stick your bag under the table. I stuck my jacket over the back of my chair. I didn't know what to do with these so I stuck them outside for now. I stuck them in the fridge and left them there.
Placing and positioning an object. She stuck the needle into my arm. We decided where to go for our holiday by closing our eyes and sticking a pin in the map. A thorn stuck in her finger. The metal springs were sticking through the mattress. Inserting and forcing things into other things.
Card games. I don't think I can stick this job a day longer. Tolerating and enduring. Idioms make sth stick. Phrasal verbs stick around. The campers collected sticks to start a fire. A stick is also a long , thin handle with a specially shaped end, used esp. A stick can also be a long , thin piece of something:.
Stick the packages under the table for now. If you stick out your tongue , you push your tongue out of your mouth , usually as an insult :. She stuck her tongue out at him and smiled. Note: This action is usually done by children. The window sticks, making it hard to shut it.
Idioms something sticks in your mind. Phrasal verbs stick something out. The needle on the oil gauge keeps sticking. Examples of stick. His final curtain call was the tumble he took off his toilet, naked and with the hypodermic needle still stuck in his arm. From the Cambridge English Corpus. For some it was difficult not to "be stuck" or preoccupied with their illness. Instead of sticking to neurophysiology, they referred to the structure of the organism or the lived body.
For example, hill-climbing techniques are unsuitable for use since they get stuck in local optima. For simplicity, we stick with this particular application. Those who stuck with old taxes found that their yield drifted slowly downwards. Figure 7 shows the sequence of experimental stick diagrams when the biped ascending the sliping surface.
A stiff estimation of the parameters assists the control system to avoid the stick -slip phenomenon. If one decides to stick , strictly, to the established principles of medical ethics, one possible position is to regard medicine as a pacifist profession. Life adapted to an atmosphere is stuck on the planet where it started. The aggregates are formed by the release of the adhesive post-acetabular gland secretion which causes the cercariae to stick together.
Analogously : we can pour out our love or attention on just any old object, but it won't necessarily stick , let alone mix with it. Figure 10 shows a sequence of experimental stick diagrams when the biped descending stairs.
Several carried sticks, but they were otherwise unarmed, and the state representative says nothing about actually being touched by anyone. The third category is at first sight more random - wooden sticks, walls, pots, ingots, spindlewhorls. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.
Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Translations of stick in Chinese Traditional. See more. Need a translator? View American English definition of stick to. Change your default dictionary to American English.
Open Dictionary. Other entries for this word. Word Forms. Synonyms and related words. To keep a promise. Collocations and examples. Adverbs frequently used with stick to. To continue something, or to continue to do something. To discuss something. To go somewhere, or to move in a particular direction.
To follow someone. To not change, or to refuse to change your opinion. Thesaurus Trending Words blue movie.
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