English Dictionary

stick

/stɪk/

noun

A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch. / A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size. / (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).

I found a stick on the ground.

意味（1）

A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.

The beaver's dam was made out of sticks.

意味（2）

A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.

I found several good sticks in the brush heap.

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(US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).

I found enough sticks in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed.

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A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.

I don’t need my stick to walk, but it’s helpful.

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A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.

As soon as the fight started, the guards came in swinging their sticks.

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(carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.

When cutting the door parts, I cut all the copes first, then the sticks.

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(nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.

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(figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).

We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture.

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(chiefly Canada, US) 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).

The recipe calls for half a stick of butter.

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A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.

Don’t hog all that gum, give me a stick!

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(slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).

Cigarettes are taxed at one dollar per stick.

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A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.

My parents bought us each a stick of cotton candy.

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(archaic) A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.

Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it[…]

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(military) The structure to which a set of bombs 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 paratroopers or containers.

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.

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(US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, 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.

I grew up driving a stick, but many people my age didn’t.

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(aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (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.)

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(aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.

For example: in making a turn, should you throw on too much stick and not enough rudder, you'll sideslip.

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(computing) A memory stick.

For ultimate presentation portability, a Powerpoint can be saved to a stick as images.

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(slang) A handgun.

A stick in the hand, a drop in the eye.

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(dated, letterpress typography) A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type.

[…]although the headings may often be in other type, still, as these are composed in the same stick, they cannot fail to justify;[…]

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(jazz, slang) The clarinet.

Arsene, boy, ain't you worried about your clarinet? Where'd you leave that stick, man?

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(sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.

Tripping with the stick is a violation of the rules.

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(horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.

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(boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.

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(golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.

His wedge shot bounced off the stick and went in the hole.

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(US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.

His stroke with that two-piece stick is a good as anybody's in the club.

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(golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.

I doubted that the three iron was enough stick.

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(baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.

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(baseball) General hitting ability.

Vaughn has to hit and keep hitting or this will be another year when the Mets don't have enough stick to win.

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(field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.

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A thin or wiry person; particularly a flat-chested woman.

She's a stick, this one. She lacks your— he patted her left breast— equipment.

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(magic) An assistant planted in the audience.

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.

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(gambling) A shill or house player.

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.

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A stiff, stupidly obstinate person.

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(military aviation, from joystick) A fighter pilot.

Bill Kirk, described by Robin as a hell of a stick, didn't even attend college until after the Vietnam War.

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(military, South Africa) A small group of (infantry) soldiers.

I remember when we dreaded the rain, as our stick of soldiers walked through the damp, tick-infested long grass of the Zambezi valley,[…]

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A negative stimulus or a punishment. (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.)

What about contempt? Isn't it used by the judiciary as a stick to dissuade people from writing or talking about them?

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(slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment; beatings.

The child killers got some stick. I saw a woman throw a basin of scalding water over a baby killer.

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(slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.

He really gave that digging some stick.

He really gave that digging some stick. = he threw himself into the task of digging

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(slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.

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.

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(obsolete) An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches.

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 […]

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(archaic, rare) A quantity of eels, usually 25.

The stick is employed for eels, and contained twenty-five.