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sticks

/stik/US // stɪk //UK // (stɪk) //

棍棒,棍子,棒子,杆子

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 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

verbadhere, affix
Forms: sticking, stuck
Synonyms
attach附上,附加,附带,附有catch接住,抓住,捕捉,捕获fix修复,固定,修理,修整glue胶合剂,胶水,粘胶,粘合剂hold持有,举行,保持,持有的linger流连忘返,徘徊,徘徊不前paste粘贴,浆糊,糊糊,糊remain仍然是,剩余的,残留的,剩余stay逗留,保持,逗留时间,留bind束缚,捆绑,绑定,结合bond债券,纽带,绑定,担保braze钎焊,焊接,钎扎,铜焊cement水泥,胶合剂,水合剂,水水泥clasp扣住,扣住了,扣住不放,抱箍cleave劈开,劈裂,裂开,劈叉cling粘住,黏住,粘着,黏着clog堵塞,堵塞物,堵塞的问题,堵塞堵塞cohere黏合,粘连,凝聚,粘着fasten紧固,系紧,紧紧抓住,固定fuse熔断器,保险丝,熔断,引线hug拥抱,抱抱,搂抱,抱团jam卡住,卡住了,卡纸,果酱join加入,加入我们,加入进来,加入我们的行列lodge宾馆,宾馆的persist坚守,坚持不懈,坚持,执着snag钉子,钉子户,抢夺,抢救solder焊接,焊接剂unite团结起来,团结一致,团结,联合起来weld焊缝,焊点,焊接,焊接处be bogged down停滞不前,沉沦,受阻,停滞become embedded嵌入,嵌入到,镶嵌在,成了嵌入的become immobilized失灵,失联,失灵了,失事cling like ivy像常春藤一样依附着,像常春藤一样粘着,像常春藤一样依附freeze to冻结到,冻结至,冻结在,冻住了hold fast坚守,坚守住,坚守岗位,坚持hold on坚持下去,坚持,坚持住,把握住stay put不要动,别动,停住不动stick like barnacle坚挺如藤壶,坚如磐石,坚挺如藤甲,坚如盘石stick together粘在一起,粘连在一起,粘连,粘着
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.

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