stick
An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
Noun 4 meanings
An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
“The beaver's dam was made out of sticks.”
Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
“Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick.”
Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
“My parents bought us each a stick of cotton candy.”
A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
“I grew up driving a stick, but many people my age didn't.”
Verb 4 meanings
To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
To furnish or set with sticks.
To hit with a stick.
To become or remain attached; to adhere.
“The tape will not stick if it melts.”
Adjective 1 meaning
Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.
“A non-stick pan. A stick plaster.”
Etymology
From Middle English sticke, stik, stikke (“branch, twig; kindling; mast; pale; stick, stylus”), from Old English sticca (“stick; peg; beam, rod”), from Proto-West Germanic *stikkō, from Proto-Germanic *stikkô (“pole, stick”), from *stikkōną (“to fix, stick”), from *stikaną (“to stick; to stab”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp; to sting”).
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STICK at a glance
STICK has 5 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (S 1 + T 1 + I 1 + C 3 + K 5) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,756 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with stick
All rhymesOne letter away
- STOCK11
- STUCK11
- STACK11
- SLICK11
- STINK9
- STICH10
- SNICK11
- STIRK9
- SAICK11
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