stick
- Noun. (Ireland) A member of the Official IRA.
- Proper noun. The Chapman Stick, an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman.
- Noun. A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch. (jump, small branch) .
- Noun. A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size. (jump, piece of wood) .
- Noun. (rfv-sense) (US) A two by four, the standard board used in constructing a frame house.
- Noun. A wand; a baton; a cudgel; a cane or walking stick.
- Noun. (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- Noun. Any roughly cylindrical (or even rectangular) unit of a substance. (jump, cylindrical piece) .
- Noun. (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden). (jump, furniture) .
- Noun. A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- Noun. (archaic) A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.
- Noun. (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, (n-g, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission) . (jump, manual transmission) .
- Noun. (aviation) The control column of an aircraft. (jump, aircraft control column) (qualifier, By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel ofan automobiles, is also called the "stick".) .
- Noun. (aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- Noun. (computing) A memory stick.
- Noun. (sports) A stick-like item:.
- Noun. (dated, metal typesetting) A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type.
- Noun. (jazz, slang) The clarinet. (qualifier, more often called the '''''liquorice stick''''') (jump, clarinet) .
- Noun. (slang, dated) A person. (n-g, (Perhaps because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)) .
- Noun. (context, magic) An assistant planted in the audience. (jump, magician's assistant) .
- Noun. (military, _) A fighter pilot.
- Noun. (context, military) A group (of soldiers); specifically:.
- Noun. (military, dated) A cluster of bombs dropped in quick succession from an aircraft in order to spread them over a target area. (jump, cluster of bombs) .
- Noun. A negative stimulus or a punishment. (n-g, (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward. Compare ''carrot''.)) .
- Noun. (slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment; beatings.
- Noun. (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- Noun. (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- Noun. (sports, uncountable) Ability; specifically:.
- Noun. (obsolete) An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches.
- Noun. (archaic, rare) A quantity of eels, usually 25. (jump, measure of eels) .
- Verb. (rfv-sense) To strike someone with a stick.
- Verb. (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- Noun. (auto racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
- Noun. (fishing, uncountable) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- Verb. (transitive) To glue; to adhere.
- Verb. (intransitive) To become attached; to adhere.
- Verb. (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
- Verb. (intransitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- Verb. (intransitive) To persist.
- Verb. (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- Verb. (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- Verb. (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
- Verb. (transitive) To press into with a sharp point.
- Verb. (transitive, gymnastics) To perform (a landing) perfectly.
- Verb. (transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
- Verb. To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse.
- Noun. (British, uncountable) Criticism or ridicule.
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