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Stick can be a verb or a noun.
stick used as a verb:
- To strike someone with a stick
- To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- To glue; to adhere.
"Stick the label on the jar." - To become attached; to adhere.
"The tape will not stick if it melts." - To jam; to stop moving.
"The lever sticks if you push it too far up." - See to stick with.
- To persist.
"His old nickname stuck." - Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To remain loyal; to remain firm.
"Just stick to your strategy, and you will win." - To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
"Stick your bag over there and come with me." - To press into with a sharp point.
"The balloon will pop when I stick this pin in it." - To perform (a landing) perfectly.
"Once again, the world champion sticks the dismount." - To propagate plants by cuttings.
"Stick cuttings from geraniums promptly."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
stick used as a noun:
- A small branch from a tree or bush.
"The nest was made out of sticks." - A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
"I found several good sticks in the brush heap." - A two by four, the standard board used in constructing a frame house.
"I found enough sticks in dumsters at construction sites to build my shed." - Any roughly cylindrical piece of a substance.
"Cigarettes are taxed at one dollar per stick." - A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
"He took a stick of newspapers from the rack at the library." - A small rectangular block of shortening (butter, margarine, lard, etc.) in weighing one quarter pound and containing by volume one half cup.
"The recipe calls for half a stick of butter." - A standard rectangular piece of chewing gum.
"Don’t hog all that gum, give me a stick!" - A cane or walking stick to aid in walking.
"I don’t need my stick to walk, but it’s helpful." - A cudgel or truncheon, especially one carried by police or guards.
"As soon as the fight started, the guards came in swinging their sticks." - A negative stimulus or a punishment.
- A piece of furniture.
"We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture." - A manual transmission or vehicle equipped with a manual transmission.
"I grew up driving a stick, but many people my age didn’t." - Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
"I grew up driving stick, but many people my age didn't." - Criticism or ridicule.
- A line of soldiers.
- A memory stick.
- A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
"Tripping with the stick is a violation of the rules." - The short whip carried by a jockey.
- A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
"His wedge shot bounced off the stick and went in the hole." -
"Golf (1): The long-range driving ability of a golf club." - An assistant planted in the audience.
- A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type.
- The control column of an aircraft. By convention a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to that used in automobiles, is also called the "stick".
- Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A fighter pilot.
- The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A cluster of bombs dropped in quick succession from an aircraft in order to spread them over a target area.
- A group of paratroopers who jump together.
- A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.
- A quantity of eels, usually 25.
- An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches.
- Corporal punishment; beatings.
- Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- Vigor; spirit.
- A thin person; particularly a flat-chested woman.
- An unsocial person, particularly one who is either withdrawn or stuck-up.
- A person having the stated quality.
- A cigarette of tobacco or marijuana.
- Approximately one gram of marijuana wrapped in a small cylinder of aluminium foil.
- The clarinet.
- The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
"His stroke with that two-piece stick is a good as anybody's in the club." - The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
"He shoots a mean stick of pool." - The traction of tires on the road surface.
- The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is stick?
- Verb usage: Stick the label on the jar.
- Verb usage: The tape will not stick if it melts.
- Verb usage: The lever sticks if you push it too far up.
- Verb usage: His old nickname stuck.
- Verb usage: Just stick to your strategy, and you will win.
- Verb usage: Stick your bag over there and come with me.
- Verb usage: The balloon will pop when I stick this pin in it.
- Verb usage: Once again, the world champion sticks the dismount.
- Verb usage: Stick cuttings from geraniums promptly.
- Noun usage: The nest was made out of sticks.
- Noun usage: I found several good sticks in the brush heap.
- Noun usage: I found enough sticks in dumsters at construction sites to build my shed.
- Noun usage: Cigarettes are taxed at one dollar per stick.
- Noun usage: Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick. (Also ... "available in a ... stick.")
- Noun usage: He took a stick of newspapers from the rack at the library.
- Noun usage: My parents bought us each a stick of cotton candy.
- Noun usage: The recipe calls for half a stick of butter.
- Noun usage: Don’t hog all that gum, give me a stick!
- Noun usage: I don’t need my stick to walk, but it’s helpful.
- Noun usage: As soon as the fight started, the guards came in swinging their sticks.
- Noun usage: We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture.
- Noun usage: I grew up driving a stick, but many people my age didn’t.
- Noun usage: I grew up driving stick, but many people my age didn't.
- Noun usage: Tripping with the stick is a violation of the rules.
- Noun usage: His wedge shot bounced off the stick and went in the hole.
- Noun usage: Golf (1): The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- Noun usage: Golf (2): {{quote-book|1988|William Hallberg|The Rub of the Green|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=m7RaAAAAMAAJ|page=219
- Noun usage: Baseball (1): The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
- Noun usage: Baseball (2): General hitting ability.
- Noun usage: {{quote-news|2002|May 19|Mike Lupica|Just Need A Little Mo|New York Daily News|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/sports/2002/05/19/2002-05-19_just_need_a_little_mo.html
- Noun usage: Hockey: The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Noun usage: His stroke with that two-piece stick is a good as anybody's in the club.
- Noun usage: He shoots a mean stick of pool.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of stick are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of stick, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
