sticks
棍棒,棍子,棒子,杆子
Related Words
Definitions
- 1
- : 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.
- 1
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
Good governance would mean sticks and coal for too many of our favorite politicians.
They played together, made spears from sticks and sharp rocks, chased chickens together.
Sticks and stones may break my bones / but chains and whips excite me.
In the comic books, he sticks around at least until the group reaches the Alexandria Safe-Zone.
Saint Louis City police also spent $325,000 upgrading helmets, sticks and other civil disobedience equipment.
He walked about, stumbling over sticks and stones and stumps, sometimes falling down on soft moss, and again on the hard ground.
Regular pitched battles were fought with sticks and staves and stones.
The boys were dragging along the banquette a small "express wagon," which they had filled with blocks and sticks.
The black sticks resembling lollipops are said to be compounds of rum, bullocks' blood and tobacco lees.
How I do wish sometimes to give Ritchie a jog, when there is some stumbling-block that he sticks fast at.