sticks
/stɪks//stɪks/noun
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An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
Example: Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick.
Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
verb
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To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
Example: to stick type
To furnish or set with sticks.
verb
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To become or remain attached; to adhere.
Example: The tape will not stick if it melts.
To jam; to stop moving.
Example: The lever sticks if you push it too far up.
To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
To persist.
Example: His old nickname stuck.
noun
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Criticism or ridicule.
noun
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(with "the") rural terrain, especially a woody area; any rural region.
Example: We had to drive way out into the sticks to visit that customer.
(chiefly by long-time users) crutches