Overview of verb stick

The verb stick has 16 senses

• lodge, wedge, stick, deposit -- (put, fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"; "stick your thumb in the crack")


• stay, stick, stick around, stay put -- (stay put (in a certain place); "We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati"; "Stay put in the corner here!"; "Stick around and you will learn something!")


• adhere, hold fast, bond, bind, stick, stick to -- (stick to firmly; "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?")


• stick -- (be or become fixed; "The door sticks--we will have to plane it")


• stick -- (endure; "The label stuck to her for the rest of her life")


• adhere, stick -- (be a devoted follower or supporter; "The residents of this village adhered to Catholicism"; "She sticks to her principles")


• stand by, stick by, stick, adhere -- (be loyal to; "She stood by her husband in times of trouble"; "The friends stuck together through the war")


• stick -- (cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface; "stick some feathers in the turkey before you serve it")


• stick -- (fasten with an adhesive material like glue; "stick the poster onto the wall")


• stick -- (fasten with or as with pins or nails; "stick the photo onto the corkboard")


• stick -- (fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something; "stick the corner of the sheet under the mattress")


• stick -- (pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument; "he stuck the cloth with the needle")


• stick -- (pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed; "He stuck the needle into his finger")


• cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere -- (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")


• stick, sting -- (saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill")


• perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound -- (be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me")

Overview of adj sticking

The adj sticking has 1 sense

• jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out -- (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")