sticking
坚持,粘性,粘着,粘连
Related Words
Definitions
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- : a branch or shoot of a tree or shrub that has been cut or broken off.
- : a relatively long and slender piece of wood.
- : a long piece of wood for use as fuel, in carpentry, etc.
- : a rod or wand.
- : a baton.
- : Chiefly British. a walking stick or cane.
- : a club or cudgel.
- : something that serves to goad or coerce: The threat of unemployment was the stick that kept the workers toiling overtime.Compare carrot.
- : a long, slender piece or part of anything: a stick of candy; sticks of celery.
- : any of four equal parts in a pound of butter or margarine.
- : Sports. an implement used to drive or propel a ball or puck, as a crosse or a hockey stick.
- : Aeronautics. a lever, usually with a handle, by which the longitudinal and lateral motions of an airplane are controlled.
- : Nautical. a mast or spar.
- : Printing. composing stick.
- : the sticks, Informal. any region distant from cities or towns, as rural districts; the country: Having lived in a large city all his life, he found it hard to adjust to the sticks.
- : Military. a group of bombs so arranged as to be released in a row across a target.the bomb load.
- : Informal. stick shift.
- : Slang. a marijuana cigarette.
- : Informal. an unenthusiastic or uninteresting person.
- : Informal. a portion of liquor, as brandy, added to a nonalcoholic drink.
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sticked, stick·ing.
- : to furnish with a stick or sticks in order to prop or support.
- : Printing. to set in a composing stick.
Phrases
- stick around
- stick at
- stick by
- stick in one's craw
- stick it
- stick it to someone
- stick one's neck out
- stick out
- stick to
- stick together
- stick to one's guns
- stick to one's last
- stick to the ribs
- stick up
- stick up for
- stick with
- sticky fingers
- carrot and stick
- get on the stick
- make stick
- more than one can shake a stick at
- short end of the stick
- stand (stick) up for
- wrong end of the stick
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
At 14 hives, the researchers used a balloon tied to a stick to chase off hornets, says Otis.
Let’s start with the stick vacuumVacuum cleaners these days come in all shapes and sizes and there are various aspects you might want to think about when working out which one you want.
If he had 10 plates spinning on sticks before, now he’s got 20.
If crosspieces are in the right place, your toes should be covering the first stick you tied, and your heels should be covering the second stick you tied, for each shoe.
This guy’s charging at them, with a knife in one hand, a stick in the other, screaming at them, in a confined space.
Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
He wore white gloves, a dignified long black coat, and matching pants and vest, and he carried a dark walking stick.
After some animated debate at the conference, Lelaie declared, with some frustration, “If you push on the stick, you will fly.”
The birds poop all over the forest, and thanks to the viscin, the mistletoe seeds in said poop stick to branches.
And for Larry Flynt, this might be a monumental opportunity to stick it to the dictator the best way he knows how.
You see, they always butter their chairs so that they won't stick fast when they sit down.
Whoever succeeded in getting the ring on his stick won the game, and carried the prize home as a sign of victory.
By using his walking stick he discovered that they formed a trail to a point in the wall.
I am not informed further; but inasmuch as you are living on the place, my advice is that you stick right there, and hold it.
The last time I tried it, I caught the end of my stick between two rocks and it broke.