stuck
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Definitions ofstuck
- 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."
- Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To remain loyal; to remain firm.
Example: "Just stick to your strategy, and you will win."
- To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
- To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
- To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
- To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
Example: "Stick the label on the jar."
- To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
Example: "Stick your bag over there and come with me."
- To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
Example: "The balloon will pop when I stick this pin in it."
- To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
Example: "to stick an apple on a fork"
- To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
- To perform (a landing) perfectly.
Example: "Once again, the world champion sticks the dismount."
- To propagate plants by cuttings.
Example: "Stick cuttings from geraniums promptly."
- (joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.
Example: "to stick somebody with a hard problem"
- To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- Unable to move.
Example: "Can you shift this gate? I think it’s stuck."
- Unable to progress with a task.
Example: "I’m totally stuck on this question in the test."
- No longer functioning, frozen up, frozen.
Example: "There are several ways to close a stuck program."
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