1syllable
stick
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Definitions ofstick
1noun
- 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.
- A stick-like item:
- Ability; specifically:
- A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
- Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
- A measure.
1verb
- 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.
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