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{{also|Stick}}
==English==
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===Pronunciation===
* {{enPR|stĭk|a=RP,GA}}, {{IPA|en|/stɪk/}}
* {{audio|en|En-us-stick.ogg|a=GA}}
* {{homophones|en|stich}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɪk|s=1}}

===Etymology 1===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*(s)teyg-}}
From {{inh|en|enm|stikke||stick, rod, twig}}, from {{inh|en|ang|sticca||rod, twig}}, from {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*stikkō}}, from {{inh|en|gem-pro|*stikkô}}, from {{der|en|ine-pro|*(s)teyg-|t=to pierce, prick, be sharp}}. Cognate with {{cog|stq|Stikke||stick}}, {{cog|vls|stik||stick}}. Related to {{m|en|stigma}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun|~}}
[[Image:Lichen stick.jpg|right|thumb|Fungi growing on a '''stick''' of wood]]
[[Image:Une canne de marchand Châlus.jpg|right|thumb|A typical walking stick or cane]]

# An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a [[wand]] or [[baton]].
#: {{syn|en|Thesaurus:stick}}
## A small, thin [[branch]] from a [[tree]] or [[bush]]; a [[twig]]; a [[branch]].
##: {{syn|en|branch|twig|rice|q3=dialectal|kindling|brush|q5=uncountable}}
##: {{ux|en|The beaver's dam was made out of '''sticks'''.}}
##* {{quote-journal|en|year=2013|month=July-August|author=w:Henry Petroski
|title=[http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2013/4/geothermal-energy Geothermal Energy]
|volume=101|issue=4|magazine=w:American Scientist
|passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between '''sticks''' to kindle a flame.}}
## A relatively long, thin piece of [[wood]], of any size.
##: {{ux|en|I found several good '''sticks''' in the brush heap.}}
##: {{ux|en|What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A '''stick'''.}}
##* {{quote-journal|en|date=1887 August 23|journal=The New York Times|title=[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F06E1DF1530E633A25750C2A96E9C94669FD7CF At Work on the Thistle]|passage=It is a fine '''stick''', about 70 feet long.}}
## {{lb|en|US}} A [[timber]] [[board]], especially a [[two by four]] (inches).
##: {{syn|en|two by four}}
##: {{ux|en|I found enough '''sticks''' in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed.}}
## A [[cane]] or [[walking stick]] (usually wooden, metal or plastic)<!--i.e., not necessarily wooden--> to aid in [[walk]]ing.
##: {{syn|en|cane|walking stick}}
##: {{ux|en|I don’t need my '''stick''' to walk, but it’s helpful.}}
##* {{RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp|chapter=23|passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a '''stick''' and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}
## A [[cudgel]] or [[truncheon]] (usually of wood, metal or plastic)<!--i.e., not necessarily wooden-->, especially one carried by police or guards.
##: {{ux|en|As soon as the fight started, the guards came in swinging their '''sticks'''.}}
## {{lb|en|carpentry}} The vertical member of a [[cope and stick|cope-and-stick]] joint.
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1997|author=Joseph Beals|chapter=Building Interior Doors|publisher=Taunton Press|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=pnqqL6c3Zp4C Doors]|page=82|isbn=1561582042
|passage=When cutting the door parts, I cut all the copes first, then the '''sticks'''.}}
## {{senseid|en|nautical}}{{lb|en|nautical}} A [[mast]] or part of a mast of a ship; ''also'', a {{l|en|yard|id=nautical}}.
## {{lb|en|figuratively}} A piece (of [[furniture]], especially if wooden).
##: {{syn|en|piece|item}}
##: {{ux|en|We were so poor we didn't have one '''stick''' of furniture.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1862|author=w:W.M. Thackeray|edition=printed in ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine'' volume XXV|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=M3MCAAAAIAAJ The Adventures of Philip]|page=242
|passage=It is more than poor Philip is worth, with all his savings and his little '''sticks''' of furniture.}}
# Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
#: {{ux|en|Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular '''stick'''.}}
## [[Image:NCI butter.jpg|right|thumb|a '''stick''' of butter]]{{lb|en|chiefly|North America}} A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of [[shortening]] ([[butter]], [[margarine]] or [[lard]]).
##: {{ux|en|The recipe calls for half a '''stick''' of butter.}}
## [[Image:Chewing gum stick.jpg|right|thumb|a '''stick''' of gum]]A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
##: {{ux|en|Don’t hog all that gum, give me a '''stick'''!}}
## {{lb|en|slang}} A cigarette {{qualifier|usually a [[tobacco]] cigarette, less often a [[marijuana]] cigarette}}.
##: {{syn|en|joint|reefer}}
##: {{ux|en|Cigarettes are taxed at one dollar per '''stick'''.}}
# Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
## A [[bunch]] of something [[wrap]]ped around or attached to a stick.
##: {{ux|en|My parents bought us each a '''stick''' of cotton candy.}}
## {{lb|en|archaic}} A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1611|title=The Bible|edition=[[w:Authorized King James Version|King James Version]]|section={{w|Book of Ezekiel|Ezekiel}} 37:16
|passage=Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one '''stick''', and write upon it{{...}}}}
## {{lb|en|military}} The structure to which a set of [[bomb]]s in a [[bomber]] aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick [[succession]] such as [[paratrooper]]s or containers.
##: {{syn|en|train}}
##* {{quote-book|en|year=2001|author=Raymond Mitchell|title=Commando Despatch Rider|page=70|isbn=085052797X|passage=Scores of transport planes streamed in to drop '''stick''' after '''stick''' of containers until the entire sky over the coast was polka-dotted with brightly coloured parachutes.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|year=2006|author=w:Farley Mowat|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=of4lqiSlYg8C Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World]|isbn=0811733386|page=200
|passage=A '''stick''' of bombs fell straight across Wotton; blew up half a dozen houses.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|year=2006|author=Holly Aho|page=48|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=zRSh5jdFpkUC From Here to There]|isbn=1411675401
|passage=James and I were in the same '''stick''' of five guys going through free fall school last September.}}
# A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
## {{lb|en|US|colloquial}} A [[manual transmission]], a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, {{non-gloss|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}}.
##: {{syn|en|stickshift|gearstick}}
##: {{ux|en|I grew up driving a '''stick''', but many people my age didn't.}}
### [[File:Shift stick.jpg|right|thumb|the '''stick'''-shift lever in a manual transmission car]]{{lb|en|US|colloquial|uncountable}} Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
###: {{ux|en|I grew up driving '''stick''', but many people my age didn't.}}
## {{lb|en|aviation}} The control column of an [[aircraft]]; a [[joystick]]. {{qualifier|By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "[[yoke]]" or "[[control wheel]]" is more commonly seen.}}
## {{lb|en|aviation|uncountable}} Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1941|author=Jay D. Blaufox|title=33 Lessons in Flying|page=47
|passage=For example: in making a turn, should you throw on too much '''stick''' and not enough rudder, you'll sideslip.}}
## {{lb|en|US|_|military slang|WWI}} An [[aircraft]]’s [[propeller]].<!--{{R:en:Lighter:1972|page=107}}--->
## {{lb|en|video games}} A [[joystick]].
## {{lb|en|computing}} A [[memory stick]].
##* {{quote-journal|en|date=2007 May 1|author=Alex Fethiere|journal=Tech front: Alex Fethiere takes eleven notable portables for a high-tech test-drive|title=[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-33219686_ITM Business Traveler]|passage=For ultimate presentation portability, a Powerpoint can be saved to a '''stick''' as images.}}
## {{lb|en|slang}} A [[handgun]].
##* {{quote-song|en|date=2007-09-18|artist=w:Dropkick Murphys|lyricist=Joseph B. Geoghegan|album=The Meanest of Times|title=Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya|url= https://genius.com/Dropkick-murphys-johnny-i-hardly-knew-ya-lyrics|passage=A '''stick''' in the hand, a drop in the eye.}}
##* {{quote-song|en|date=2013-04-08|artist=w:Yungen|album=Topic of Discussion|title=Off the Record|url=https://genius.com/Yungen-off-the-record-lyrics|passage=You think you’re real now you’ve got a couple '''sticks'''? My favourite younger, he got stabbed in my bits. And if he died fam, I promise I’d have quit.}}
##* {{quote-song|en|date=2018-07-27<!--ex instagram.com/p/BluI61ED1lD/ contra SC 2019-09-30-->|note=1:52|lyricist=Marty Mula|title=Strip Talk|url=https://soundcloud.com/martymula/strip-talk|passage=Bitch, pig, pull out with the '''stick''' / everything I hit like a lick/ We don’t miss}}
## {{lb|en|dated|metal typesetting}} A [[composing stick]], the tool used by [[compositor]]s to assemble lines of type.
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1854|author=Thomas Ford|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=qJIDAAAAQAAJ The Compositor's Handbook]|page=125
|passage={{...}}although the headings may often be in other type, still, as these are composed in the same '''stick''', they cannot fail to justify;{{...}}}}
## {{lb|en|jazz|slang}} The [[clarinet]].
##: {{syn|en|licorice stick|liquorice stick}}
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1948|author=[[w:Fred Ramsey|Frederic Ramsey, Jr.]]|title=Jazz Parody: Anthology of Jazz Fiction|chapter=Deep Sea Rider|editor=Charles Harvey
|passage=Arsene, boy, ain't you worried about your clarinet? Where'd you leave that '''stick''', man?}}
# {{lb|en|sports}} A stick-like item:
## [[Image:Hockey stick.svg|right|thumb|two hockey '''sticks''', for the goalie at right]][[Image:Womens lacrosse stick head 2.jpg|right|thumb|a lacrosse '''stick''']]{{lb|en|sports|generically}} A long thin implement used to control a ball or [[puck]] in sports like [[hockey]], [[polo]], and [[lacrosse]].
##: {{ux|en|Tripping with the '''stick''' is a violation of the rules.}}
## {{lb|en|horse racing}} The short [[whip]] carried by a [[jockey]].
## {{lb|en|boardsports}} A [[board]] as used in board sports, such as a [[surfboard]], [[snowboard]], or [[skateboard]].<!--
##* '''2005''', surf.co.nz [http://www.surf.co.nz/school/],
##*: Wax your '''stick''' and head down to that spot.-->
## {{lb|en|golf}} The [[pole]] bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
##: {{syn|en|pin|flagstick}}
##: {{ux|en|His wedge shot bounced off the '''stick''' and went in the hole.}}
## {{lb|en|US|slang|uncountable}} The [[cue]] used in [[billiards]], [[pool]], [[snooker]], etc.
##: {{ux|en|His [[stroke]] with that two-piece '''stick''' is a good as anybody's in the club.}}
### The game of [[pool]], or an individual pool game.
###: {{ux|en|He shoots a mean '''stick''' of pool.}}
###* {{quote-book|en|year=2003|author=Lew Bryson|page=74|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=Slbz8kE-QfoC New York Breweries]|isbn=081172817X|passage=Come in, have a good time, drink some beer, shoot some '''stick''', listen to some music.}}
# {{lb|en|sports|uncountable}} Ability; specifically:
## {{lb|en|golf}} The long-range driving ability of a [[golf club]].
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1988|author=William Hallberg|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=m7RaAAAAMAAJ The Rub of the Green]|page=219|passage=I doubted that the three iron was enough '''stick'''.}}
## {{lb|en|baseball}} The potential hitting power of a specific [[bat]].
## {{lb|en|baseball}} General hitting ability.
##* {{quote-journal|en|date=2002 May 19|author=Mike Lupica|journal=New York Daily News|title=[http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/sports/2002/05/19/2002-05-19_just_need_a_little_mo.html Just Need A Little Mo]|passage=Vaughn has to hit and keep hitting or this will be another year when the Mets don't have enough '''stick''' to win.}}
## {{lb|en|hockey}} The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
# {{lb|en|slang|dated}} A [[person]] or group of people. {{non-gloss|(Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1967|author=w:Maurice Shadbolt|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=EDU_AAAAIAAJ The Presence of Music: Three Novellas]|page=54
|passage=Your father's a great old '''stick'''. He's really been very good to me.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1923|author={{w|Lucy Maud Montgomery}}|title=Emily of New Moon|chapter=[[s:Emily of New Moon/Chapter 7|Chapter 7]]
|passage=“{{...}}He’s a good doctor but an odd '''stick'''—odder by far than I am, Emily, and yet nobody ever says he’s not all there. Can you account for that? He doesn’t believe in God—and I am not such a fool as that.”}}
## A [[thin]] or [[wiry]] person; particularly a [[flat-chested]] woman.
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1967|author=Cecelia Holland|page=39|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=WuZCAAAAIAAJ Rakóssy]
|passage="She's a '''stick''', this one. She lacks your—" he patted her left breast— "equipment."}}
## {{lb|en|magic}} An assistant [[plant#Verb|plant]]ed in the audience.
##: {{syn|en|plant|shill}}
##* {{quote-book|en|year=2001|author=Paul Quarrington|page=255|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=bfk-nU-bJkgC The Spirit Cabinet]
|passage=The kid was a '''stick''', a plant, a student from UNLV who picked up a few bucks nightly by saying the words "seven of hearts."}}
## {{lb|en|gambling}} A [[shill]] or house player.
##* {{quote-text|en|year=2011|author=Howard Fast|title=Helen
|passage=A shill is also called a '''stick''', and the role of the shill or '''stick''' is to make the customer relax and feel at ease.}}
## A stiff, stupidly obstinate person.
## {{lb|en|military|_|aviation|from [[joystick]]}} A [[fighter]] pilot.
##* {{quote-book|en|year=2001|author=John Darrell Sherwood|page=30|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=agQyH1y_4q4C&isbn=0312979622 Fast Movers: America's Jet Pilots and the Vietnam Experience]
|passage=Bill Kirk, described by Robin as a "hell of a '''stick'''," didn't even attend college until after the Vietnam War.}}
## {{lb|en|military|South Africa}} A small group of (infantry) [[soldier]]s.
##* {{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Bart Wolffe|page=245|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=5EanTB6yyI8C Persona Non Grata]|isbn=1430304774
|passage=I remember when we dreaded the rain, as our '''stick''' of soldiers walked through the damp, tick-infested long grass of the Zambezi valley,{{...}}}}
# {{senseid|en|punishment}} Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
## {{lb|en|figurative}} A [[negative]] stimulus or a [[punishment]]. {{non-gloss|(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.)}}
##: {{cot|en|carrot<id:incentive>}}
##* {{quote-journal|en|date=1998 January 23|journal=Indian Express|title=[http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19980123/02350944.html Judicial activism has ushered in hope]|passage=What about contempt? Isn't it used by the judiciary as a '''stick''' to dissuade people from writing or talking about them?}}
##* {{quote-journal|en|author=Paul Krugman|title=Climate Is Now a Culture War Issue|date=2023-08-07|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/opinion/climate-is-now-a-culture-war-issue.html|work=The New York Times|passage=Back in 2009, when Democrats tried but failed to take significant climate action, their policy proposals consisted mainly of '''sticks'''—limits on emissions in the form of permits that businesses could buy and sell.}}
## {{lb|en|slang|uncountable}} [[corporal punishment|Corporal punishment]]; [[beating]]s.
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1999|author=Eve McDougall|page=69|isbn=190155709X|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=8c26i6lLqsQC A Wicked Fist]
|passage=The child killers got some '''stick'''. I saw a woman throw a basin of scalding water over a baby killer.}}
## {{lb|en|slang}} [[vigor|Vigor]]; [[spirit]]; effort, energy, intensity.
##: {{ux|en|He really gave that digging some '''stick'''.|He threw himself into the task of digging.}}
##: {{ux|en|She really gave that bully some '''stick'''.|She berated him.|footer=This sense melts into the previous sense, "punishment".}}
##: {{ux|en|Give it some '''stick'''!}}
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1979|author=Don Bannister|page=185|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=jKw9AAAAIAAJ Sam Chard]|isbn=071000219X
|passage='Choir gave it some '''stick''' on "Unto Us a Son is Born."' ¶ Cynthia nodded. ¶ 'It was always one of Russell's favourites. He makes them try hard on that.'}}
## {{lb|en|slang}} Vigorous [[drive|driving]] of a car; [[gas]].
##* {{quote-book|en|year=2006|author=Martyn J. Pass; Dani Pass|page=163|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=CaGJb0A_alsC Waiting for Red]|isbn=1905237553
|passage=Skunk really gave it some '''stick''' all the way to Caliban's place, we passed a good few Coppers but they all seemed to turn the blind eye.}}
# A measure.
## {{lb|en|obsolete}} An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 [[inch]]es.
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1921|author=w:Elmer Davis|page=61|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=bws3AAAAIAAJ History of the New York Times, 1851-1921]
|passage=There was another speech in that day's news — a speech which The Times printed on the front page because it was part of a front-page story, and in full — it was only two '''sticks''' long; printed in full just after the much longer invocation by the officiating clergyman {{...}}}}
## {{lb|en|archaic|rare}} A quantity of [[eel]]s, usually 25.
##: {{syn|en|stich|broach}}
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1866|author=James Edwin Thorold Rogers|section=Volume 1|page=171|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZmNaZfbq5tIC A History of Agriculture and Prices in England]|isbn=140217120X
|passage=The '''stick''' is employed for eels, and contained twenty-five.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1999|author=Claire Breay|page=62|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=RRtWubS24-YC The Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey]|isbn=0851157505
|passage=In the same charter, Nigel granted another 10 '''sticks''' of eels yielded by the fishery of Polwere to the abbey{{...}}}}

=====Usage notes=====
* {{sense|furniture}} Generally used in the negative, or in contexts expressive of poverty or lack.

=====Derived terms=====
{{col3|en
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|cancer stick
|center stick|polo-stick|stick bug|track stick
|Chapman stick| beer stick
|chapstick|idiot stick|play stick|salt stick|stick of gum|USB stick
|chopstick
|clue stick
|composing stick|drive stick|piggy stick|stick letter|between the sticks
|digging stick
|dipstick
|drumstick
|give stick
|glue stick|up the stick
|[[high-stick]], [[high-sticking]]
|hockey stick
|hoopstick
|in the sticks
|it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog
|joystick
|ladystick
|lipstick
|memory stick
|moon on a stick
|nightstick
|old stick
|pace stick
|selfie stick
|short end of the stick
|sidestick
|speak softly and carry a big stick
|stick deodorant
|stick in the mud
|stick nudger
|stick of furniture
|stick puller
|[[stick pusher]], [[stickpusher]]
|[[stick shaker]], [[stickshaker]]
|stickless
|stickshift
|sticks in a bundle are unbreakable
|stick up one's ass
|ugly stick
|walking stick
|yardstick
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=====Descendants=====
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* {{desc|ca|estic|bor=1}}
* {{desc|it|stick|bor=1}}
* {{desc|ko|스틱|bor=1}}
* {{desc|pt|stique|bor=1|alts=1}}
* {{desc|srn|tiki|bor=1}}
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=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|twig or small branch}}
* Abkhaz: {{t|ab|алаба}}
* Albanian: {{t+|sq|degë|f}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|غُصَيْن|m}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|փայտ}}
* Assamese: {{t|as|কাঠী}}
* Avar: {{t|av|хьоп}}
* Baluchi: {{t|bal|دار|tr=dár}}
* Bashkir: {{t|ba|сыбыҡ}}
* Basque: {{t|eu|makila}}
* Bengali: {{t+|bn|কাঠি}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|съ́чка|f}}
* Central Sierra Miwok: {{t|csm|čikil·a-}}
* Chechen: {{t-needed|ce}}
* Chickasaw: {{t|cic|itti'}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|枝|tr=zhī}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|klacek|m}}
* Danish: {{t|da|pind|c}}, {{t+|da|kvist|c}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|stok|m}}, {{t+|nl|tak|m}}, {{t+|nl|takje|n}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|bastono}}
* Estonian: {{t|et|kepp}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|risu}}, {{t+|fi|oksa}}
* French: {{t+|fr|bâton|m}}
* Galician: {{t|gl|xostra|f}}
* Georgian: {{t+|ka|ტოტი}}, {{t|ka|წნელი}}, {{t|ka|წკეპლა}}, {{t+|ka|ჯოხი}}
* German: {{t+|de|Stock|m}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|βέργα|f}}, {{t+|el|κλαρί|n}}
* Haitian Creole: {{t|ht|baton|}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|מַקֵל|tr=makél|m}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|छड़ी|f}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|ág}}, {{t+|hu|faág}}, {{t+|hu|gally}}, {{t+|hu|vessző}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|prik|n}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|ranting}}
* Interlingua: {{t|ia|rametto}}
* Irish: {{t+|ga|bata|m}}, {{t|ga|maide|m}}, {{t|ga|craobh|f}} (shoilire)
* Italian: {{t+|it|rametto|m}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|枝|tr=eda}}, {{t+|ja|小枝|tr=koeda}}
* Jarai: {{t|jra|gai}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|шыбық|sc=Cyrl}}
* Khmer: {{t|km|ឈើកូត|tr=cʰəə koot|sc=Khmr}}, {{t+|km|អង្កត់}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|나뭇가지}}
* Kurdish:
*: Central Kurdish: {{t|ckb|چیلکەدار}}
* Lao: {{t-needed|lo}}
* Latin: {{t|la|rudis|f}}, {{t|la|virga|f}}
* Latvian: {{t+|lv|žagars|m}}
* Lithuanian: {{t+|lt|lazda}}
* Lutshootseed: {{t|lut|qʷəłayʔ}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|ластегарка|f}}
* Malay: {{t+|ms|kayu}}
* Maori: {{t-needed|mi}}
* Marathi: {{t+|mr|काठी}}
* Mongolian: {{t+|mn|мөчир|sc=Cyrl}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|kvist|m}}
*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|kvist|m}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|sticca|m}}
* Old Norse: {{t|non|kvistr|m}}
* Ossetian: {{t|os|уис}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|چوب|tr=čôb}}
* Polabian: {{t|pox|stok|m}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|patyk|m}}, {{t+|pl|gałązka|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|graveto|m}}, {{t+|pt|galho|m}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|nuia|f}}, {{t+|ro|creangă|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|прут|m}}
* Slovene: {{t+|sl|palica}}
* Somali: {{t|so|ul}}
* Sorbian:
*: Lower Sorbian: {{t|dsb|kij|m}}
* Southern Altai: {{t|alt|чыбык}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|ramita|f}}, {{t+|es|astilla|f}}
* Sundanese: {{t|su|régang}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|fimbo}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|kvist|c}}, {{t+|sv|pinne|c}}, {{t+|sv|gren|c}}
* Tagalog: {{t+|tl|kahoy}}
* Tamil: {{t+|ta|குச்சி}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|แขนง}}, {{t+|th|กิ่ง}}
* Tibetan: {{t|bo|ལྕུག་ཕྲན}}, {{t|bo|ཡལ་ག}}, {{t|bo|རྒྱུག་པ}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|sopa}}, {{t+|tr|çubuk}}
* Tuvan: {{t|tyv|будук}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|прут}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|cành}}, {{t+|vi|nhánh}}
* Welsh: {{t|cy|brigyn|m}}
* Yagara: {{t|yxg|bagooroo}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|שטעקן|m}}
* Zazaki: {{t+|zza|çuwe|m}}, {{t|zza|suvur|f}}, {{t|zza|çalık|c}}
* Zealandic: {{t|zea|tak|m}}, {{t|zea|takkelienge|f}}
* Zulu: {{t|zu|induku|c9|c10}}, {{t|zu|intonga|c9|c10}}, {{t|zu|uthi|c11|c10}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|long piece of wood}}
* Afrikaans: {{t|af|stok}}
* Albanian: {{t+|sq|shkop|m}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|عَصًا|m}}
*: Gulf Arabic: {{t|afb|عصاية|f|tr=ʕaṣāya}}
*: Hijazi Arabic: {{t|acw|عَصاية|f|tr=ʕaṣāya}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|փայտ}}
* Assamese: {{t|as|লাখুটি}}, {{t|as|লাঠী}}, {{t|as|বাৰি}}, {{t|as|টাঙোন}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t+|az|çubuq}}
* Bashkir: {{t|ba|таяҡ}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|па́лка|f}}, {{t|be|кій|m}}
* Bengali: {{t+|bn|লাঠি}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|пръ́чка|f}}, {{t+|bg|палка|f}}
* Burmese: {{t+|my|တုတ်}}
* Carpathian Rusyn: {{t|rue|паліця|f}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|garrot|m}}, {{t+|ca|bastó|m}}
* Chechen: {{t|ce|ӏаса}}
* Chickasaw: {{t|cic|itti'}}
* Chinese:
*: Cantonese: {{t|yue|棍|tr=gwan3}}
*: Dungan: {{t|dng|гун}}, {{t|dng|бон}}
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|棍|tr=gùn}}, {{t+|cmn|棒|tr=bàng}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|hůl|f}}, {{t+|cs|palice|f}}, {{t+|cs|tyč|f}}
* Danish: {{t|da|kæp|c}}, {{t|da|pind|c}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|stok|m}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|bastono}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|keppi}}, {{t+|fi|tikku}}
* French: {{t+|fr|canne|f}}
* Georgian: {{t+|ka|ჯოხი}}, {{t|ka|თამასა}}, {{t|ka|ლარტყა}}
* German: {{t+|de|Stab|m}}, {{t+|de|Knüppel|m}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|ραβδί|n}}, {{t+|el|βέργα|f}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|מַקֵּל|m|tr=makél|sc=Hebr}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|छड़ी|f}}, {{t+|hi|लाठी|f}}, {{t+|hi|डंडी|f}}, {{t+|hi|डंडा|m}}, {{t+|hi|शलाका|f}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|bot}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|stafur|m}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|tongkat}}, {{t+|id|batang}}
* Ingush: {{t|inh|ӏаса}}
* Irish: {{t+|ga|bata|m}}, {{t|ga|maide|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|bastone|m}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|枝|tr=えだ, eda}}, {{t+|ja|棒|tr=ぼう, bō|sc=Jpan}}
* Kabuverdianu: {{t|kea|barapó}}
* Kashubian: {{t|csb|czij}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|таяқ|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|kk|асатаяқ}}, {{t|kk|сойыл}}
* Khmer: {{t+|km|ដំបង}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|막대기}}, {{t+|ko|막대}}
* Kurdish:
*: Central Kurdish: {{t+|ckb|دار}}
*: Northern Kurdish: {{t+|kmr|ço|m|f}}, {{t+|kmr|çogan|m}}, {{t+|kmr|çomax|m}}, {{t+|kmr|gopal|m}}, {{t|kmr|metreq|m}}, {{t+|kmr|şiv|f}}
* Kyrgyz: {{t+|ky|таяк|sc=Cyrl}}
* Lao: {{t+|lo|ຄ້ອນ}}, {{t|lo|ຕະບອງ}}
* Latin: {{t|la|baculum|n}}, {{t|la|bastum|n}}
* Latvian: {{t+|lv|rīkste|f}}
* Lithuanian: {{t+|lt|lazda|f}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|стап|m}}, {{t|mk|прачка|f}}
* Malay: {{t+|ms|batang}}, {{t+|ms|tongkat}}
* Malayalam: {{t+|ml|വടി}}
* Maranao: {{t|mrw|osok}}
* Marathi: {{t+|mr|काठी|f|sc=Deva}}
* Maricopa: {{t|mrc|'ii}}
* Mongolian: {{t+|mn|мод|sc=Cyrl}}
* Ngazidja Comorian: {{t|zdj|mɓuɗa|c9|c10}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|kjepp|m}}
*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|kjepp|m}}
* Old Church Slavonic:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|cu|кꙑи|m}}, {{t|cu|палица|f}}
* Old East Slavic: {{t|orv|кꙑи|m}}, {{t|orv|палъка|f}}, {{t|orv|палица|f}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|sticca|m}}
* Old Norse: {{t|non|keppr|m}}
* Oromo: {{t|om|ulee}}
* Ottoman Turkish: {{t|ota|دكنك|tr=değenek}}, {{t|ota|عصا|tr=ʼasa}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|چوب|tr=čub}}, {{t+|fa|چوبک|tr=čubak}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|kij|m}}, {{t+|pl|pałka|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|pau|m}}, {{t+|pt|vara|f}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|băț|n}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|па́лка|f}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|палица|f}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|palica|f}}
* Sicilian: {{t+|scn|bastuni|m}}
* Slovak: {{t+|sk|palica|f}}
* Slovene: {{t+|sl|palica|f}}
* Southern Altai: {{t|alt|тайак}}, {{t|alt|агаш}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|palo|m}}, {{t|es|tortol|m}} {{qualifier|short}}, {{t|es|tortor|m}} {{qualifier|short}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|käpp|c}}, {{t+|sv|stav|c}}, {{t+|sv|stör|c}}
* Sylheti: {{t|syl|ꠛꠣꠠꠤ}}, {{t|syl|ꠟꠣꠑꠤ}}
* Tajik: {{t+|tg|чӯб|sc=Cyrl}}
* Tatar: {{t+|tt|таяк}}
* Telugu: {{t+|te|కర్ర}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|ดุ้น}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|çubuk}}, {{t+|tr|dayak}}
* Turkmen: {{t|tk|taýak}}, {{t|tk|çöp}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|па́лиця|f}}, {{t+|uk|па́лка}}, {{t+|uk|кий|m}}
* Urdu: {{t|ur|چھڑی|f|tr=chaṛī|sc=ur-Arab}}
* Uyghur: {{t|ug|تاياق}}
* Uzbek: {{t+|uz|tayoq}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|gậy}}
* Volapük: {{t+|vo|staf}}
* Welsh: {{t+|cy|ffon|f}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|שטעקן|m}}, {{t|yi|שטעקל|n}}
* Zazaki: {{t|zza|rewt|f}}
* Zealandic: {{t|zea|stok|m}}
* Zulu: {{t|zu|induku|c9|c10}}, {{t|zu|intonga|c9|c10}}, {{t|zu|uthi|c11|c10}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|cylindrical piece (of chalk, wax etc)}}
* Arabic: {{t+|ar|إِصْبَع|m}}
* Bengali: {{t+|bn|কাঠি}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|калъп|m}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|barra|f}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|tyčinka|f}}, {{t+|cs|váleček|m}}, {{t+|cs|kostka|f}}, {{t+|cs|tyč|f}}
* Danish: {{t|da|stav|c}}, {{t|da|stok|c}}, {{t|da|stang|c}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|stok|m}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|bastono}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|puikko}}, {{t+|fi|patukka}}, {{t+|fi|tikku}}, {{t+|fi|puikko}}
* French: {{t+|fr|bâton|m}}, {{t+|fr|canne|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|Stock|m}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|ράβδος|f}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|מקל|alt=מַקֵל|tr=makél|m}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|rúd}}, {{t+|hu|darab}}
* Irish: {{t+|ga|bata|m}}
* Italian: {{t|it|barretta|f}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|棒|tr=ぼう, bō}}, {{t+|ja|スティック|tr=sutikku}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|sticca|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|stique|m}}, {{t+|pt|estique|m}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|baton|n}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|barra|f}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|stav|c}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|baston}}
* Zazaki: {{t+|zza|çuwe|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|cane or walking stick}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|عَصًا|m}}
*: Gulf Arabic: {{t|afb|عصاية|tr=ʕaṣāya}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|ձեռնափայտ}}
* Bashkir: {{t|ba|таяҡ}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|трысці́на|f}}, {{t|be|па́лка|f}}, {{t|be|кій|m}}, {{t|be|ля́ска|f}}, {{t|be|по́сах|m}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|басту́н|m}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|bastó|m}}, {{t+|ca|vara|f}}
* Chamicuro: {{t|ccc|aki's̈ho}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|手杖|tr=shǒuzhàng}}, {{t+|cmn|拐杖|tr=guǎizhàng}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|hůl|f}}
* Danish: {{t|da|stok|c}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|keppi}}, {{t+|fi|kävelykeppi}}
* French: {{t+|fr|canne|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|Stock}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|ραβδί|n}}, {{t+|el|μπαστούνι|n}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|מקל|alt=מַקֵל|tr=makél|m}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|काठी|f}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|bot}}, {{t+|hu|pálca}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|tongkat}}
* Irish: {{t+|ga|bata|m}}, {{t|ga|maide|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|bastone|m}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|杖|tr=tsue}}, {{t+|ja|ステッキ|tr=sutekki}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|таяқ|sc=Cyrl}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|지팡이}}
* Kurdish:
*: Central Kurdish: {{t+|ckb|گۆچان}}
* Latin: {{t|la|baculum|n}}, {{t|la|caduceus|m}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|бастун|m}}
* Marathi: {{t+|mr|काठी|f}}
* Mongolian: {{t-needed|mn}}
* Ngazidja Comorian: {{t|zdj|mkongodjo}}, {{t|zdj|ɓakwera}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|stokk|m}}
*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|stokk|m}}
* Ottoman Turkish: {{t|ota|دكنك|tr=değenek}}, {{t|ota|عصا|tr=ʼasa}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|laska|f}}, {{t+|pl|kostur|m}}, {{t+|pl|kij|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|bengala|f}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|baston|n}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|трость|f}}, {{t+|ru|по́сох|m}}, {{t+|ru|клюка́|f}}, {{t+|ru|па́лка|f}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|trstina|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|bastón|m}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|käpp|c}}
* Tamil: {{t+|ta|தடி}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|baston}}, {{t+|tr|asa}}, {{t+|tr|değnek}}, {{t+|tr|çomak}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|ціпо́к}}, {{t+|uk|па́личка}}, {{t+|uk|па́лиця}}, {{t|uk|по́сох}}, {{t|uk|трости́на|f}}, {{t+|uk|кий|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|hockey stick}}
* Bashkir: {{t|ba|таяҡ}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|стик|m}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|estic|m}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|hůl|f}}, {{t+|cs|hokejka|f}}
* Danish: {{t|da|stav|c}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|jääkiekkomaila}}, {{t+|fi|maila}}
* French: {{t+|fr|crosse|f}}
* German: {{t|de|Hockeyschläger|m}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|μπαστούνι|n}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|छड़ी|f}}, {{t+|hi|डंडी|f}}, {{t+|hi|डंडा|m}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|hokiütő}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|camán|m}}, {{t|ga|maide haca|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|stecca|f}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|スティック|tr=sutikku}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|hockeykølle|m|f}}
*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|hockeykølle|f}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|kij|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|stique|m}}, {{t+|pt|estique|m}}, {{t+|pt|aléu|m}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|crosă|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|клю́шка|f}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|palo de hockey|m}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|hockeyklubba|c}}, {{t+|sv|klubba|c}}
* Turkish: {{t|tr|hokey sopası}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|клю́чка|f}}
* Zazaki: {{t|zza|çuwey hokeyi}}
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{{trans-top|gearstick, stickshift}}
* Arabic: {{t-check|ar|عَصًا|m}}, {{t|ar|عُصِيّ|f-p}}, {{t|ar|عِصِيّ|f-p}}, {{t-check|ar|اعص|p|alt=أَعْصٍ}}, {{t+check|ar|عُود|m}}, {{t-check|ar|اعواد|p|alt=أَعْوَاد}}, {{t-check|ar|عُكَّاز|m}}, {{t-check|ar|عُكَّازَات|p}}, {{t-check|ar|عَكَاكِيز|p}} <!-- all assumed inflected form or vocalised spelling; please verify if linking is acceptable. see [[User:Kephir/gadgets/xte#Translation_fixing]] -->, {{t-check|ar|ذِرَاع|m}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|лост|m}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|řadicí páka|f}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|gearstang|c}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|vaihdekeppi}}
* German: {{t+|de|Schaltknüppel|m}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|μοχλός|m}}
* Hebrew: {{t|he|ידני|m|tr=yadaní|sc=Hebr}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|sebességváltó}}, {{t+|hu|sebváltó}}, {{t|hu|kézi sebességváltó}}, {{t|hu|kézi sebváltó}}, {{t|hu|botváltó}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|asta|f}}, {{t+|it|barra|f}}, {{t+|it|cambio|m}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|マニュアル|tr=manyuaru}}, {{t|ja|シフトレバー|tr=shifuto rebā}}
* Kurdish:
*: Central Kurdish: {{t|ckb|گێڕ}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|ме́нувач|m}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|girspak|m}}
*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|girspak|m}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|drążek|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|alavanca}}, {{t+|pt|marcha|f}}
* Romanian: {{t|ro|schimbător de viteze|n}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|palanca de cambios|f}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|kol}}, {{t+|tr|vites}}, {{t+|tr|vites kolu}}
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{{trans-top|chewing gum}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|pala}} {{q|small rectangular}}, {{t+|fi|levy}} {{q|long and thin}}
* German: {{t|de|Kaugummistreifen|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|gomma|f}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|スティック|tr=sutikku}}, {{t+|ja|棒|tr=ぼう, bō}}
* Kurdish:
*: Central Kurdish: {{t|ckb|بنێشت}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|lamă|f}}, {{t+|ro|gumă|f}}
* Turkish: {{t|tr|şerit sakız}}
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{{trans-top|control column of an aircraft}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|操纵杆}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|ohjaussauva}}, {{t+|fi|sauva}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|μοχλός|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|volante|m}}, {{t|it|barra di controllo|f}}
* Japanese: {{t|ja|操縦桿|tr=sōjūkan}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|wolant|m}}, {{t|pl|sterownica|f}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|palanca de mando|f}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|kol}}, {{t|tr|kontrol kolu}}
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{{checktrans-top}}
* Dutch: {{t+check|nl|twijg|f}}
* Italian: {{t+check|it|bastone|m}}
* Korean: {{t+check|ko|막대기|sc=Kore}}, {{t+check|ko|지팡이|sc=Kore}}
* Mandarin: {{t+check|cmn|棍子|tr=gùnzi|sc=Hani}}
* Serbo-Croatian: {{t+check|sh|palica|f}}
* Slovak: {{t+check|sk|palica|f}}
* Telugu: {{t+check|te|కర్ర|sc=Telu}}
* Turkish: {{t+check|tr|baston}}
* Walloon: {{t+check|wa|baston|m}}
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====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|carpentry}} To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a [[cope-and-stick]] joint.
# {{lb|en|transitive|printing|slang|dated}} To compose; to set, or arrange, in a [[composing stick]].
#: ''to '''stick''' type''
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To furnish or set with sticks.
# To hit with a stick.

===Etymology 2===
From {{inh|en|enm|stiken|t=to stick, pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened}}, from {{inh|en|ang|stician|t=to pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened}}, from {{inh|en|gem-pro|*stikōną|t=to pierce, prick, be sharp}}, from {{der|en|ine-pro|*(s)tig-}}, {{m|ine-pro|*(s)teyg-|t=to pierce, prick, be sharp}}.

See also the related {{cog|gem-pro|*stikaną}}, whence {{cog|fy|stekke}}, {{cog|nds|steken}}, {{cog|nl|steken}}, {{cog|de|stechen}}; compare also {{cog|da|stikke}}, {{cog|sv|sticka}}.

Cognate with the first etymology (same PIE root, different paths through Germanic and Old English), to {{m|en|stitch}}, and to {{m|en|etiquette}}, via French {{m|fr|étiquette}} – see there for further discussion.

====Noun====
{{en-noun|~}}

# {{lb|en|uncountable}} The tendency to stick (remain stuck), [[stickiness]].
## {{lb|en|motor racing}} The [[traction]] of tires on the road surface.
# {{lb|en|uncountable}} That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
## {{lb|en|fishing}} The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a [[cast]]; [[line stick]].
##* {{quote-book|en|year=2004|author=Simon Gawesworth|title=Spey Casting|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=mTasJXNIBsgC|isbn=0811701042|page=47
|passage=Problem: A lot of '''stick''' and a lack of energy on the forward stroke.}}
# {{lb|en|countable}} A [[thrust]] with a pointed instrument; a [[stab]].
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=21 Apr 90|journal=Gay Community News|page=11|author=Michael Bronski|title=Innocent Victims|text=What if Veronica Prego was lying about who drew the blood and it was her own carelessness, not Joyce Fogel's, which caused the needle '''stick'''?}}

=====Usage notes=====
The uncountable senses tend to have limited or niche uses, such as to quantify the amount of ''stick'' on a given tool.

=====Derived terms=====
{{col-auto|en|stick clip|stick-slip}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb|sticks|sticking|stuck|past2=sticked|past2_qual=archaic}}

# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To become or remain [[attach]]ed; to [[adhere]].
#: {{syn|en|cleave|cling|Thesaurus:adhere}}
#: {{ux|en|The tape will not '''stick''' if it melts.}}
#* {{RQ:Holinshed Chronicles|volume=I|book=Ireland|chapter=The Thirde Booke of the Historie of Ireland, Comprising the Raigne of [[w:Henry VIII of England|Henry the Eyght]]: [...]|pages=77–78|pageref=77|column=2|passage=The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of y{{sup|e}} Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon{{sic|random}} uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes '''ſticking''' in the Images.}}
#* {{RQ:King James Version|Psalms|119|31|passage=I haue stucke vnto thy Testimonies: O Lord put me not to shame.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2013-06-14|author=w:Jonathan Freedland|volume=189|issue=1|page=18|magazine=w:The Guardian Weekly|title=[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/07/obama-apple-google-facebook-tainted-prism Obama's once hip brand is now tainted]|passage=Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or '''stuck''' photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[jam]]; to stop moving.
#: {{syn|en|jam|stall|Thesaurus:stop}}
#: {{ux|en|The lever '''sticks''' if you push it too far up.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[tolerate]], to [[endure]], to [[stick with]].
#: {{syn|en|live with|put up with|Thesaurus:tolerate}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1998|author=Patrick McEvoy|title=Educating the Future GP: the course organizer's handbook|page=7|passage=Why do most course organizers '''stick''' the job for less than five years?}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[persist]].
#: {{syn|en|abide|carry on|Thesaurus:persevere}}
#: {{ux|en|His old nickname '''stuck'''.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=December 10, 2011|author=David Ornstein quoting {{w|David Moyes}}
|work=BBC Sport
|title=[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/16015017.stm Arsenal 1-0 Everton]
|passage="Our team did brilliantly to be in the game. We '''stuck''' at it and did a good job. This is disappointing but we'll think about the next game tomorrow."}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} Of [[snow]], to remain [[frozen]] on [[land]]ing.
#: {{syn|en|pitch|settle}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[remain]] [[loyal]]; to remain [[firm]].
#: {{syn|en|stand by|stick by}}
#* {{RQ:Plutarch North Lives|chapter=Agis and Cleomenes|page=852|passage=After this contencion, the common people did '''ſticke''' vnto king ''Agis'', and the riche men followed ''Leonidas'', praying and perſwading him not to forſake them: and further, they did ſo intreate the Senators, in whom conſiſteth the chiefe authority,{{nb...}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Smotherhood: Wickedly Funny Confessions from the Early Years|author=Amanda Lamb|year=2007|passage=What I get from work makes me a better mother, and what I get from being a mother makes me a better journalist. At least that's my story and I'm '''sticking''' to it.}}
#: {{ux|en|Just '''stick''' to your strategy, and you will win.}}
# {{lb|en|dated|intransitive}} To [[hesitate]], to be reluctant; to [[refuse]] (in negative phrases).
#: {{syn|en|falter|waver|Thesaurus:hesitate}}
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets|10|text=For thou art so possess’d with murderous hate<br>That ’gainst thyself thou '''stick’st''' not to conspire.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1712|author=w:John Arbuthnot|title=Law is a Bottomless Pit|location=London|publisher=John Morphew|chapter=1|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004771083.0001.000
|passage=Some '''stick''' not to say, that the Parson and Attorney forg’d a Will, for which they were well Paid {{...}}}}
#* {{RQ:Browne Christian Morals}}, 2nd edition edited by {{w|Samuel Johnson}}, London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 12,<sup>[https://archive.org/details/christianmorals01browgoog]</sup>
#*: Though a cup of cold water from some hand may not be without its reward, yet '''stick''' not thou for wine and oil for the wounds of the distressed {{...}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1740|author=James Blair|title=Our Saviour's divine sermon on the mount [...] explained|volume=3|page=26
|passage=And so careful were they to put off the Honour of great Actions from themselves, and to centre it upon God, that they '''stuck''' not sometimes to depreciate themselves that they might more effectually honour him.}}
#* {{RQ:Richardson Pamela|3|letter=37|page=375|text=For he that '''sticks''' not at ''one'' bad Action, will not scruple ''another'' to vindicate himself: And so, Devil-like, become the Tempter, and the Accuser too!}}
#* '''1743''', Thomas Stackhouse, ''A Compleat Body of Speculative and Practical Divinity'', edition 3 (London), page 524:
#*: The ''First-fruits'' were a common Oblation to their Deities; but the chief Part of their Worship consisted in ''sacrificiing'' Animals : And this they did out of a real Persuasion, that their Gods were pleased with their Blood, and were nourished with the ''Smoke'', and Nidor of them; and therefore the more costly, they thought them the more acceptable, for which Reason, they '''stuck''' not sometimes to regale them with ''human'' Sacrifices.
# {{lb|en|dated|intransitive}} To be [[puzzle]]d (''at'' something), have [[difficulty]] [[understand]]ing.
#: {{syn|en|puzzle}}
#* {{RQ:Locke Conduct|29–30|He that has to do with young scholars, especially in mathematics, may perceive how their minds open by degrees, and how it is exercise alone that opens them. Sometimes they will '''stick''' a long time at a part of a demonstration, not for want of perceiving the connection of two ideas; that, to one whose understanding is more exercised, is as visible as any thing can be.|section=6}}
# {{lb|en|dated|intransitive}} To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
#* '''1708''', {{w|Jonathan Swift}}, ''The Sentiments of a Church-of-England-Man, with respect to Religion and Government'', in ''The Works of Jonathan Swift'', 7th edition, Edinburgh: G. Hamilton et al., 1752, Volume I, Miscellanies in Prose, p. 73,<sup>[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001022853]</sup>
#*: {{...}} this is the Difficulty that seemeth chiefly to '''stick''' with the most reasonable of those, who, from a mere Scruple of Conscience, refuse to join with us upon the Revolution Principle {{...}}.
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[attach]] with [[glue]] or as if by gluing.
#: {{syn|en|agglutinate|conglutinate|glue|gum|paste}}
#: {{ux|en|'''Stick''' the label on the jar.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
#: {{syn|en|pop|set down}}
#: {{ux|en|'''Stick''' your bag over there and come with me.}}
#* {{RQ:Lincoln Pratt's Patients|chapter=8|passage=Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate '''stuck''' his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
#: {{syn|en|pierce|prick|puncture}}
#: {{ux|en|The balloon will pop when I '''stick''' this pin in it.}}
#: {{ux|en|to '''stick''' a needle into one's finger}}
#* {{RQ:Dryden Fables|Palamon and Arcite
|passage=The points of spears are '''stuck''' within the shield.}}
## {{lb|en|transitive|now only in|_|dialects}} To [[stab]].
##: {{syn|en|jab|run through|Thesaurus:stab}}
##* '''circa 1583''', John Jewel, in a sermon republished in '''1847''' in ''The Works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury'', portion 2, page 969:
##*: In certain of their sacrifices they had a lamb, they '''sticked''' him, they killed him, and made sacrifice of him: this lamb was Christ the Son of God, he was killed, '''sticked''', and made a sweet-smelling sacrifice for our sins.
##* {{RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice|III|1|text=Thou '''stickest''' a dagger in me: I shall never see my gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting!  fourscore ducats!}}
##* {{RQ:Swift Gulliver|part=I|page=10|passage={{...}} ſome of them attempted with Spears to '''ſtick''' me in the Sides; but, by good luck, I had on me a [[buff jerkin#Noun|Buff Jerkin]], which they could not pierce.}}
##* {{quote-text|en|year=1809|title=Grafton's chronicle, or history of England|volume=2|page=135
|passage={{...}} would haue [=have] '''sticked''' him with a dagger {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Scott Waverley|passage=It was a shame {{...}} to '''stick''' him under the other gentleman's arm while he was redding the fray.}}
##* {{quote-text|en|year=1908|title=The Northeastern Reporter|volume=85|page=693
|passage=The defendant said he didn't shoot; "he '''sticked''' him with a knife."}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
#: {{syn|en|fix|impale|stake|run through|transfix|Thesaurus:impale}}
#: {{ux|en|to '''stick''' an apple on a fork}}
# {{lb|en|transitive|archaic}} To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Twelfth Night|II|iv|passage=my shroud of white, '''stuck''' all with yew}}
# {{lb|en|transitive|gymnastics}} To perform (a landing) perfectly.
#: {{ux|en|Once again, the world champion '''sticks''' the dismount.}}
# {{lb|en|botany|transitive}} To [[propagate]] plants by [[cutting]]s.
#: {{ux|en|'''Stick''' cuttings from geraniums promptly.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive|joinery}} To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be ''stuck''.
# {{lb|en|dated|transitive}} To bring to a halt; to [[stymie]]; to [[puzzle]].
#: {{syn|en|stump|thwart}}
#: {{ux|en|to '''stick''' somebody with a hard problem}}
# {{lb|en|transitive|slang|dated}} To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to [[cheat]].
#* {{quote-song|en|year=1996|artist=w:Lil' Kim|feat=Diddy|title=No Time|album=Hard Core|passage=Chillin' in a Benz with my amigos / Tryin' to '''stick''' a nigga for his pesos}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive|US|slang}} To have sexual intercourse with.
#: {{syn|en|have sex|Thesaurus:copulate}}
#* {{quote-song|en|year=1996|author=w:Lil' Kim|title={{w|Not Tonight (song)|Not Tonight}}|passage=You ain't lickin' this, you ain't '''stickin'''' this}}
#* {{quote-song|en|lyricist=Jordan Houston; Darnell Carlton; Paul Beauregard; Premro Smith; Marlon Goodwin; David Brown; Willie Hutchinson|passage=You leave your girl around me; if she's bad she's gonna get '''stuck'''.|url=https://genius.com/Three-6-mafia-stay-fly-lyrics|title=Stay Fly|publisher=Sony BMG|year=2005|album=Most Known Unknown|artist=Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG)}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive|blackjack|chiefly|UK}} To [[stand pat]]: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.

=====Usage notes=====
In [[Early Modern English]], the past participles {{m|en|stucken}} and {{m|en|sticken}} are occasionally found; they are not known in the modern language, even as archaisms.

=====Derived terms=====
''Note: Terms derived from the noun are found [[#Derived terms|above]].''
{{der3|en|title=Terms derived from ''stick'' (verb)
|let the cobbler stick to his last
|stick by|dirt sticks|mud sticks|shit sticks
|stick down|stick at nothing|stick one on|see what sticks
|sticker| let crazy stick its dick in you
|stick fat
|stick one's dick in crazy|stick one's foot in it|stick one's foot in one's mouth|stick one's head in the sand|stick one's nose in|stick one's nose into|stick one's tongue out|stick 'em up|stick a fork in something|stick a needle in my eye|stick a sock in it
|stick around|stick at
|stick by one's guns|
|stick in one's gizzard|stick in someone's craw|stick in someone's gullet|stick in someone's throat
|stick it out
|stick it to|stick it to the man|stick like shit|stick like shit to a blanket
|stick a fork in me, I’m done
|stick a fork in something
|stick on|stick-on
|stick that in your pipe and smoke it|stick the knife in
|stick out
|stick the landing
|stick to
|throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick
|stick to someone's ribs|stick together
|stick to business
|stick to one's own knitting
|stick to one's text
|sticktoitiveness
|stick to one's guns
|stick to one's knitting|would lose one's head if it wasn't stuck on
|stick to one's post
|stick to one's ribs
|stick up
|stick up for
|stick up to
|stick with
|sticky
|throw things at the wall and see what sticks}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|to glue; to adhere (transitive)}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|لَصَّقَ}}
*: Hijazi Arabic: {{t|acw|لَصَّق|tr=laṣṣag}}, {{t|acw|لَزَّق|tr=lazzag}}, {{t|acw|لصق|tr=laṣag}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t+|az|yapışdırmaq}}
* Bakhtiari: {{t|bqi|دیسنیدن|tr=disniðen}}
* Bashkir: {{t|ba|йәбештереү}}
* Basque: {{t|eu|erantsi}}, {{t|eu|itsatsi}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|кле́іць|impf}}, {{t|be|прыкле́йваць|impf}}, {{t|be|прыкле́іць|pf}}
* Bikol Central: {{t+|bcl|pulot}}
* Breton: {{t+|br|pegañ}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|лепя́|impf}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|enganxar}}, {{t+|ca|apegar}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|黏|tr=nián}}, {{t+|cmn|貼|tr=tiē}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|kleven}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|glui}}, {{t|eo|alglui}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|liimata}}, {{t+|fi|kiinnittää}}
* French: {{t+|fr|coller}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|colar}}, {{t+|gl|pegar}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|მიწებება}}, {{t|ka|მიკრობა}}, {{t|ka|მიკვრა}}
* German: {{t+|de|kleben}}
* Gujarati: {{t|gu|ચોંટવું}}
* Higaonon: {{t|mba|pulut}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|चिपकाना}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|ragaszt}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|tempel|alt=menempel}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|attaccare}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|貼る|tr=はる, haru}}, {{t+|ja|付ける|tr=つける, tsukeru}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|붙이다}}
* Kurdish:
*: Central Kurdish: {{t|ckb|نوساندن}}
* Latin: {{t|la|faciō haerēre}}
* Malay: {{t+|ms|lekat}}
* Norman: {{t|nrf|cliuter}}
* Occitan: {{t+|oc|pegar}}
* Ottoman Turkish: {{t|ota|طوتقاللامق|tr=tutkallamak}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|چسبیدن|tr=časpidan}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|kleić|impf}}, {{t+|pl|przyklejać|impf}}, {{t+|pl|przykleić|pf}}, {{t|pl|przylepiać|impf}}, {{t|pl|przylepić|pf}}
* Portuguese:  {{t+|pt|colar}}, {{t+|pt|grudar}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|lipi}}, {{t+|ro|agăța}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|прикле́ивать|impf}}, {{t+|ru|прикле́ить|pf}}, {{t+|ru|кле́ить|impf}}
* Sardinian:
*: Campidanese: {{t|sc|accollai}}, {{t|sc|affisciai}}, {{t|sc|appoddai}}
*: Logudorese: {{t|sc|àccollare}}, {{t|sc|affrisare}}
* Sassarese: {{t|sdc|attaccà}}
* Sorbian:
*: Lower Sorbian: {{t|dsb|lipaś}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|pegar}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|fästa}}
* Tamil: {{t+|ta|ஒட்டு}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|прикле́ювати|impf}}, {{t|uk|кле́їти|impf}}
* Urdu: {{t|ur|چپکانا|tr=cipkānā}}
* Volapük: {{t+|vo|kleibön}}
* Walloon: {{t+|wa|plaker}}, {{t+|wa|coler}}
* Welsh: {{t+|cy|glynu}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|צוקלעפּן}}
* Zazaki: {{t|zza|panayen}}
* ǃXóõ: {{t|nmn|dtʻkxʻàba}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to become attached, to adhere (intransitive)}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|لَصِقَ}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t+|az|yapışmaq}}
* Bashkir: {{t|ba|йәбешеү}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|лі́пнуць|impf}}, {{t|be|прыкле́йвацца|impf}}, {{t|be|прыкле́іцца|pf}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|лепя се}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|黏|tr=nián}}, {{t+|cmn|貼|tr=tiē}}, {{t|cmn|黏著//黏着|tr=niánzhuó}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|lepit|impf}}, {{t|cs|lepit|impf|alt=lepit se}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|kleven}}, {{t+|nl|plakken}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|algluiĝi}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|tarttua}}, {{t+|fi|kiinnittyä}}
* French: {{t+|fr|coller}}
* Gallurese: {{t|sdn|attaccàssi}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|მიკრობა}}, {{t|ka|მიწებება}}
* German: {{t+|de|kleben}}, {{t+|de|anheften}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|चिपकना}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|ragad}}
* Ingrian: {{t|izh|tarttua}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|attaccarsi}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|付く|tr=つく, tsuku}}, {{t+|ja|粘着|alt=粘着する|tr=ねんちゃくする, nenchaku suru}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|붙다}}
* Latin: {{t|la|haereō}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|се залепува|impf}}, {{t|mk|се прилепува|impf}}
* Ottoman Turkish: {{t|ota|یاپشمق|tr=yapışmak}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|przyklejać|impf|alt=przyklejać się}}, {{t+|pl|przykleić|pf|alt=przykleić się}}, {{t|pl|przylepiać|impf|alt=przylepiać się}}, {{t|pl|przylepić|pf|alt=przylepić się}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|colar}}, {{t+|pt|aderir}}, {{t+|pt|grudar}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|прикле́иваться|impf}}, {{t+|ru|прикле́иться|pf}}, {{t+|ru|прилипа́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|прили́пнуть|pf}}, {{t+|ru|ли́пнуть|impf}}
* Sanskrit: {{t+|sa|स्निह्यति}}
* Sardinian:
*: Campidanese: {{t|sc|apegaisì}}
*: Logudorese: {{t|sc|appiliare}}
* Sassarese: {{t|sdc|attaccàssi}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|pegarse}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|fastna}}
* Tocharian B: {{t|txb|trenk-}}, {{t|txb|tsu-}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|yapışmak}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|ли́пнути|impf}}, {{t|uk|прикле́юватися|impf}}
* Urdu: {{t|ur|چپکنا|tr=cipaknā}}
* Volapük: {{t+|vo|klebön}}
* Walloon: {{t+|wa|plaker}}
* Welsh: {{t+|cy|glynu}}
* Zazaki: {{t|zza|paneyayen}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to jam}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|заяждам}}
* Dutch: {{t|nl|blijven steken}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|juuttua}}, {{t+|fi|takertua}}
* French: {{t+|fr|coincer}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|ჩაჭედვა}}, {{t|ka|გაჭედვა}}
* German: {{t+|de|steckenbleiben}}, {{t+|de|stocken}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|अटकना}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|elakad}}, {{t+|hu|beakad}}, {{t+|hu|megakad}}, {{t+|hu|beszorul}}
* Japanese: {{t|ja|動かなくなる|tr=ugokanaku naru}} {{qualifier|to stop moving}}, {{t|ja|引っかかる|tr=hikkakaru}} {{qualifier|to catch}}, {{t|ja|嵌る|tr=hamaru}} {{qualifier|to fit into a space and get stuck}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|загла́вува}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|emperrar}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|застрева́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|застря́ть|pf}}, {{t+|ru|защемля́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|защеми́ть|pf}}, {{t+|ru|заеда́ть|impf}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|atascarse}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|fastna}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|защемля́ти}}, {{t|uk|защеми́ти}}
* Urdu: {{t|ur|اٹکنا|tr=aṭaknā}}
* Zazaki: {{t|zza|sivık biyen}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|to tolerate, endure, stick with|stick with}}

{{trans-top|to persist}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|упорствам}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|volhouden}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|pysyä}}
* French: {{t+|fr|rester}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|fennmarad}}, {{t+|hu|megmarad}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|persistere}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|つきまとう|tr=tsukimatou}}, {{t+|ja|続ける|tr=tsuzukeru}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|persistir}}, {{t+|pt|aguentar}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|of snow, to remain frozen on landing}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|pysyä}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|תפס}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|persistere}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to remain loyal or firm}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|запазвам се|sc=Cyrl}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|neergooien}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|pysyä}}, {{t+|fi|pitäytyä}}, {{t|fi|pitää kiinni}}
* German: {{t|de|dabeibleiben}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|kitart}}, {{t+|hu|ragaszkodik}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|permanere}}, {{t+|it|rimanere}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|味方|alt=味方する|tr=mikata suru}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|ū}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|permanecer}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|permanecer}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|bağlı kalmak}}
* Zazaki: {{t|zza|pa manen}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to place, set down quickly}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|мятам}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|plantar}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|stekken}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|laittaa}}, {{t+|fi|panna}}, {{t+|fi|pistää}}
* French: {{t+|fr|ficher}}
* Hungarian: {{q|put/place; standard}} {{t+|hu|tesz}}, {{q|colloquial, cf. ’throw’}} {{t+|hu|vág}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|置く|tr=oku}} {{qualifier|to place somewhere}}, {{t+|ja|付く|tr=tsuku}} {{qualifier|to stick onto or into something}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|enfiar}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|poner}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|ställ}}, {{t+|sv|sätt}}, {{t+|sv|placera}}
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{{trans-top|to press into with a sharp point}}
* Aromanian: {{t|rup|nhig}}, {{t|rup|hig}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t+|az|batırmaq}}, {{t+|az|saplamaq}}, {{t+|az|soxmaq}}, {{t+|az|sancmaq}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|забождам}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|ficar}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|pistää}}
* French: {{t+|fr|enfoncer}}, {{t+|fr|planter}}
* German: {{t+|de|stecken}}, {{t+|de|stechen}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|szúr}}, {{t+|hu|döf}}
* Ingrian: {{t|izh|törkätä}}, {{t|izh|pistää}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|ficcare}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|刺す|tr=sasu}}, {{t+|ja|突く|tr=tsuku}}
* Kurdish:
*: Central Kurdish: {{t|ckb|چەقاندن}}
* Latin: {{t|la|figicō}}, {{t+|la|fīgō}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|забо́дува}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|enfiar}}, {{t+|pt|cravar}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|înfige}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|вка́лывать|impf}}, {{t+|ru|втыка́ть|impf}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|clavar}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|batırmak}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|втика́ти}}
* Zazaki: {{t|zza|gum kerden}}
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{{trans-top|to fix on a pointed instrument}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|pistää}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|tűz}}, {{t+|hu|rátűz}}
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{{trans-top|to perform (a landing) perfectly}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[suorittaa]] [[täydellisesti]]}}
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{{trans-top|to propagate plants by cuttings}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|stekken}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[lisätä]] [[pistokkaista]]}}
* French: {{t+|fr|bouturer}}
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{{trans-top|to hesitate, be reluctant; refuse}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|epäröidä}}
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* Dutch: {{t+check|nl|bijblijven}}, {{t-check|nl|blijven hangen}}
* Kurdish:
*: Central Kurdish: {{t-check|ckb|مانان}}
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=====See also=====
{{top2}}
* {{l|en|stick in one's craw}}
* {{l|en|stick one's neck out}}
* {{l|en|stick one's oar in}}
* {{l|en|stick out like a sore thumb}}
* {{l|en|stick-sling}}
* {{l|en|stick to one's guns}}
* {{l|en|stick-up}}
* {{l|en|stick up for}}
* {{l|en|stuck up}}
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====Adjective====
{{en-adj|er}}

# {{lb|en|informal}} Likely to stick; [[sticking]], [[sticky]].
#: ''A [[non-stick|non-'''stick''']] pan. A [[stick plaster|'''stick''' plaster]].''
#: ''A '''sticker''' type of glue. The '''stickest''' kind of gum.''

=====Usage notes=====
* The adjective is more informal than nonstandard due to the prevalence of examples such as "non-stick pan" or "stick plaster".
* The comparative and superlative remain nonstandard (vs. {{m|en|stickier}} and {{m|en|stickiest}}) and are sometimes seen in between quotation marks to reflect it.

=====Derived terms=====
{{der-top}}
* {{l|en|non-stick}}, {{l|en|nonstick}}
* {{l|en|stick note}}
* {{l|en|stick plaster}}
{{der-bottom}}

===Etymology 3===
Possibly a metaphorical use of the first etymology ("twig, branch"), possibly derived from the Yiddish [[schtick]].

====Noun====
{{en-noun|-}}

# {{lb|en|British}} [[criticism|Criticism]] or [[ridicule]].
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2008 May 3|author=Chris Roberts|title=It’s a stroll in the park!|journal=Huddersfield Daily Examiner|url=http://www.examiner.co.uk/huddersfield-giants/huddersfield-giants-news/2008/05/03/it-s-a-stroll-in-the-park-86081-20855936/
|passage=I got some '''stick''' personally because of my walking attire. I arrived to training fully kitted out in sturdy walking boots.}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=cikst|ticks}}

{{cln|en|ergative verbs}}
{{C|en|Automotive}}

==Chinook Jargon==

===Etymology===
Borrowed from {{bor|chn|en|stick}}.

===Noun===
{{head|chn|noun}}

# [[#English|stick]]
# [[wood]], [[firewood]]
# [[tree]], [[forest]]

==Dutch==

===Etymology===
Borrowed shortenings from several English compounds, in all cases equivalent to a borrowing from {{bor|nl|en|stick}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|nl|/stɪk/}}
* {{audio|nl|Nl-stick.ogg}}
* {{hyphenation|nl|stick}}
* {{rhymes|nl|ɪk}}

===Noun===
{{nl-noun|m|-s|+}}

# a [[hockey stick]]
#: {{syn|nl|hockeystick}}
# a [[joystick]], stick-shaped control device
# a [[memory stick]] to store IT data

==German==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|de|/ʃtɪk/}}
* {{audio|de|De-stick.ogg}}
* {{rhymes|de|ɪk|s=1}}

===Verb===
{{head|de|verb form}}

# {{verb form of|de|sticken||s|imp}}
# {{lb|de|colloquial}} {{verb form of|de|sticken||1|s|pres}}

==Italian==

===Etymology===
{{ubor|it|en|stick}}.

===Pronunciation===
{{it-pr|stick*}}

===Noun===
{{it-noun|m|#}}

# a metal {{l|en|stick}} needed to reach where the arm cannot
#: {{coi|it|'''stick''' del [[timone]]}}
#: {{coi|it|'''stick''' del [[telefono]]|selfie '''stick'''}}

==Romanian==

===Etymology===
Borrowed shortenings from several English compounds, in all cases equivalent to a borrowing from {{bor|ro|en|stick}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|ro|/stik/}}
* {{rhymes|ro|ik|s=1}}

===Noun===
{{ro-noun|n|uri}}

# {{l|en|stick}}-shaped object
#:{{uxi|ro|[[stick de memorie|'''stick''' de memorie]]|memory '''stick''' / [[flash drive]]}}
#:{{uxi|ro|'''stick''' deodorant|deodorant '''stick''' / '''stick''' deodorant}}

====Declension====
{{ro-noun-n-uri}}

==Swedish==

===Etymology===
See {{m|sv|sticka|t=to sting, prick}}

===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|sv|Sv-stick.ogg}}

===Interjection===
{{head|sv|intj}}

# [[get lost]], [[fuck off]]

====Derived terms====
* {{l|sv|stick och brinn||fuck off}}

===Noun===
{{sv-noun|n}}

# a [[sting]]; a bite from an insect
# {{lb|sv|card games}} a [[trick]]

====Declension====
{{sv-infl-noun-n-zero}}

====Descendants====
* {{desc|fi|tikki|bor=1}}

===Verb===
{{head|sv|verb form}}

# {{verb form of|sv|sticka||imp}}

===References===
* {{R:svenska.se|so}}
* {{R:svenska.se|saol}}
* {{R:svenska.se|saob}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|sv|a=cikst|ticks}}