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# stick

«stick» in Mova's school dictionary: **a thin piece of wood, often fallen from a tree** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun, verb (stick, sticks, stuck, sticking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A stick is a thin piece of wood, often fallen from a tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stick/#m1)

2) A stick is a long thin thing: a walking stick, a hockey stick, a glue stick, a stick of celery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stick/#m2)

3) To stick is to fix one thing to another with glue or tape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stick/#m3)

4) To stick is to push a pointed thing into something: stick a pin in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stick/#m4)

5) To stick is to become fixed and unable to move: the door sticks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stick/#m5)

6) To stick with something is to keep doing it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stick/#m6)

7) Stick can also be an informal, affectionate name for a friend, as in "old stick". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stick/#m7)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: a thing counted (sticks, ice-cream sticks, glue sticks); to stick stickers onto a page: «sticks 5 on each page» is a rate. Counting sticks and tally sticks in early maths. Everyday: stick together, stick to the rules, stick out your tongue, stick up for someone. Safety: don't run with a stick.

### examples

- Tom collected 24 sticks for the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stick/#x1)
- Each pack has 6 glue sticks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stick/#x2)
- She sticks 5 stickers on each page. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stick/#x3)
- A stick is 30 centimeters long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stick/#x4)
- The dog fetched the stick from the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stick/#x5)
- Grandpa walks with a stick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stick/#x6)
- Stick the picture into your book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stick/#x7)
- Friends stick together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stick/#x8)
- Stick to the path in the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stick/#x9)
- “OLD Stick!” said the Rocket, “impossible! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stick/#x10)

### note

Irregular verb: stick, stuck, stuck. As a noun just the thing counted; «sticks 5 on each page» is a rate, so the total is pages × 5. Trap: «stuck» can mean «not able to move». Sticky = covered in something that sticks.

### In the corpora

- [Newcomers are busy and tired; the friendly thing is to say hello first instead of deciding they are «stuck up».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/25/)
- [Repeat a guess enough times and it sticks to a person like a label.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/2/)
- [A quote stuck on a picture of a famous face is very easy to fake; look for where the person really said it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/13/)
- [Elephants sometimes use tools, such as a stick to scratch an itch or a leafy branch to swat flies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/16/)
- [Kangaroos hop with springy tendons that store energy like a pogo stick, so hopping fast costs them hardly more energy than hopping slowly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stick» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stick/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.