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say it: STIK-ing
sticking is an adjective meaning "extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary". It carries one recorded sense.
extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary
“the jutting limb of a tree”
“massive projected buttresses”
“his protruding ribs”
“a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck”
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 sticking 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.