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say it: stik
stick is a verb and noun meaning "put, fix, force, or implant". It is pronounced /ˈstɪk/ — stik. It carries 25 recorded senses.
“Stay put in the corner here!”
“Stick around and you will learn something!”
cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
“stick some feathers in the turkey before you serve it”
fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something
“stick the corner of the sheet under the mattress”
pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed
“He stuck the needle into his finger”
come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
“The dress clings to her body”
“The label stuck to the box”
“The sushi rice grains cohere”
an implement consisting of a length of wood
“he collected dry sticks for a campfire”
“the kid had a candied apple on a stick”
a small thin branch of a tree
a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
ice hockey · field hockey · polo
a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
“cinnamon sticks”
“a stick of dynamite”
marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stick come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.