STICK

Definition: STICK

STICK

Intransitive verb

1. To be embarrassed or puzzled; to hesitate; to be deterred, as by scruples; to scruple; -- often with at.

2. To be prevented from going farther; to stop by reason of some obstacle; to be stayed.

3. To remain where placed; to be fixed; to hold fast to any position so as to be moved with difficulty; to cling; to abide; to cleave; to be united closely.

4. To adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall.

5. To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.

Noun

1. To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale; as, to stick an apple on a fork.

2. To penetrate with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to stab; hence, to kill by piercing; as, to stick a beast.

3. To cause to penetrate; to push, thrust, or drive, so as to pierce; as, to stick a needle into one's finger.

4. To fasten, attach, or cause to remain, by thrusting in; hence, also, to adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing; as, to stick a pin on the sleeve.

5. To set with something pointed; as, to stick cards.

6. To attach by causing to adhere to the surface; as, to stick on a plaster; to stick a stamp on an envelope; also, to attach in any manner.

7. To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick; as, to stick type.

8. To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such moldings are said to be stuck.

9. To cause to stick; to bring to a stand; to pose; to puzzle; as, to stick one with a hard problem.

10. To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.

11. To set; to fix in; as, to stick card teeth.

Transitive verb

1. A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.

2. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.

3. A composing stick. See under Composing. It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is used.

4. A derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or stupid; as, an odd stick; a poor stick.

5. Anything shaped like a stick; as, a stick of wax.

6. Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "STICK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Stick \Stick\, noun. [Old English sticke, Anglo-Saxon sticca; akin to stician to stab, prick, pierce, German stecken a stick, staff, Old High German steccho, Icelandic stik a stick. See Stick, transitive verb.]. (references)

Literature

Mechanical Engineering

Military

Mining

Slang

Sports & Leisure

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: STICK

Arms

Club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver, shillelah, sprig; hand staff, quarter staff; bat, cane, stick, knuckle duster; billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy.

Bungler

Noun: bungler; blunderer, blunderhead; marplot, fumbler, lubber, duffer, dauber, stick; bad hand, poor hand, poor shot; butterfingers.

Cessation

Verb: cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break off, leave off; hold, stop, pull up, stop short; stick, hang fire; halt; pause, rest; burn out, blow out, melt down.

Coherence

Verb: cohere, adhere, stick, cling, cleave, hold, take hold of, hold fast, close with, clasp, hug; grow together, hang together; twine round; (join).

Fool

Oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony.

Opening

Perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine; (scoop out); tunnel; transpierce, transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch; stave in.

Scourge

Noun: scourge, rod, cane, stick; ratan, rattan; birch, birch rod; azote,

Support

Staff, stick, crutch, alpenstock, baton, staddle; bourdon, cowlstaff, lathi, mahlstick.

Crosswords: STICK

French (stick), Swedish (bite, cheese it, cut, dig, get, jab, prick, puncture, scat, shove off, skiddoo, stick, thrust, twinge).

Take Hitler and stick him on the funny page (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur)

Fill a man full o' lead, stick him in the ground an' then read words on him. Why, when you've killed a man, why try to read the Lord in as a partner on the job (Red River; writing credit: Borden Chase)

Woo-oo! You look like sex on a stick in that Frederick Montana getup (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox)

Brains stick with brains (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

You not gonna stick around for your share (The Sting; writing credit: David S. Ward)

Jack go under Limbo stick (Limbo Rock/Hand Jive; performing artist: Brave Combo)

I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years (Golden Years; performing artist: DAVID BOWIE)

With grooves so funky, they come with a Speed Stick (Keep Their Headz Ringin; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

So stick around (Bennie And The Jets; performing artist: Elton John)

It'll stick to your cheeks (In France; performing artist: Frank Zappa)

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle? (references; author: unknown)

What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work?  A stick. (references; author: unknown)

If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan? (references; author: unknown)

The Walking Stick (1970)

Let's Stick Together (1952)

Magic On a Stick (1946)

Stick to Your Guns (1941)

Way Back When a Nightclub Was a Stick (1940)

Stick Up (performing artist: Honey Cone)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Shellac, Seed Lac, Stick Lac, Resins, and Gum-Resins (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Shellac, Seed Lac, Stick Lac, Resins, and Gum-resins in N. America & Caribbean (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Shellac, Seed Lac, Stick Lac, Resins, and Gum-Resins Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Shellac, Seed Lac, Stick Lac, Resins, and Gum-Resins Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Multipack Children’s Stick Confectionery Ice Cream (reference)

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Books

• Stick Fighting (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Stick It (reference)

• Talking Stick (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Filipino Arnis Stick, Hand and Knife Defenses: Self Defense and Martial Arts Videos (reference)

• Program 3-Power Stick Handling (reference)

• Wendell Harrison & Mama's Licking Stick Clarinet Ensemble (reference)

• T.D. Jakes: A Stick and a Stutter (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Stick Insect by Nick Beggs (reference)

• Stick Figures (reference)

• Multicultural Rhythm Stick Fun (reference)

• Heaven on a Popsicle Stick (reference)

• Kindly Remove the Stick... [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Arcade Shark Stick (reference)

• ShadowBlade Arcade Stick (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• HomeRight C800524 Auto Wash Stick and EZI Dry (reference)

• Bigg Lugg CHKC-444 Tool Holder for 9.6-Volt Stick Battery Drills (reference)

• HomeRight C800576 Easy Wash Stick with Brush (reference)

• Death Stick DS21C 21-Ounce Milled Face Hammer with 19" Curved Hickory Handle (reference)

• Death Stick EX-9 Exhumer Nail Puller (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

(6) color slides show sticks of butter. (2) single sticks of butter unwrapped, (2) unwrapped stick of butter next to a butter knife, (2) a single pat of butter on a butter knife. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

There are royal blue bowls (1 large, 1 small) full of white popcorn, on a white tablecloth. Behind the bowls are a glass mug of tea with a lemon slice and a cinnamon stick and a red poppy. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

This helminth nematode parasite, also known as guinea worm, is gradually withdrawn from the body by winding the stick. Credit: CDC.

Fig. 1 - Bait chopper; Fig. 2 - Bait slivering knife Fig. 3 - Halibut killer and gob stick; Fig. 4 - Wooden hand nipper Fig. 5 - Halibut gaff; Fig. 6 - Trawl buoy and black ball Fig. 7 - Canvas skate for section of trawl; Fig. 8 - Dory scoop Drawing by Capt. J.W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Traditional stick dance. Credit: Small World.

King walking with stick past tree with letter N. Credit: Library of Congress.

Man in tricorn hat, long coat, and walking stick. Credit: Library of Congress.

Stick to the ship, Uncle! no time to change pilots!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Woodrow Wilson indicating the "common people" to "Wall Street" holding "money power" stick. Credit: Library of Congress.

Indian stick ball players. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The Gold Stick came forwards

The man took up his stick and knapsack, and went off.

The colonnade above him made him think vaguely of an ancient temple and the ashplant on which he leaned wearily of the curved stick of an augur

The tenant men squatted down on their hams again to mark the dust with a stick, to figure, to wonder

I then stepped over the buildings very conveniently from one stool to the other, and drew up the first after me with a hooked stick.

Each stick was carefully mortised or tenoned by its stump, for I had borrowed other tools by this time

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The esophagus may be too narrow, causing food to stick. (references)

The antibodies are custom-fit to stick to specific germs. (references)

Blood is taken at the doctor's office through a finger stick. (references)

Business

Chefs as well as restaurant owners tended to stick to what they knew in cooking equipment. (references)

Leading deodorant brands include Fa, Lady’s Speed Stick, Rexona and Secret while leading shaving cream and foam brands are Gillette, Florena, Nivea, Denim, Old Spice, Mennen and Harley Davidson. (references)

After the 1998 economic crisis a significant portion of Russian women switched to using less expensive local as well as Polish make-up products, however there has always been a certain percentage of the women’s population who stick to selective brands. (references)

Economic History

Russia

Semi-ready products like fillets, fish stick, canned fish, and vacuum packed fish are gaining in popularity. (references)

Singapore

While Singapore consumers are particularly price conscious they tend to stick to the brands they are familiar with. (references)

Botswana

In an attempt to curb the rise in inflation, the Bank of Botswana (the central bank) is likely to stick to its tight monetary policy, whatever the other economic costs. (references)

Human Rights

Gambia

The encounter led to a fight, and the officer's helmet and stick disappeared. (references)

Belize

Balcarcel's report to the Human Rights Commission and the Guatemalan Embassy claimed that he was stripped, handcuffed, burned with a lighter and habanero peppers on his genitals, beaten with a stick, and forced to drink his own urine. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

No action was taken against the members of the security forces responsible for torturing, beating, raping, or otherwise abusing persons in the following cases from 2000: The November beating of a foreign ICRC worker during an NDA attack on government forces in Kassala; the September incidents in which police used tear gas, batons, and live ammunition to disperse demonstrators and in some instances, beat or otherwise injured numerous individuals; the June beating in Hilla Kuku of a Catholic seminarian on the neck and wrist with a stick after he refused to remove a wooden cross that he was wearing; the June attack on Juba University in Khartoum using sticks and tear gas; the May raids by security forces on Alnasr Technology College in which they arrested, beat, injured students, and fired bullets in the air to disperse a student protest on education issues; and the February detention and beating of two students for political activity by security forces. (references)

Trade

Oman

Stick on tape printed production and expiration dates are not acceptable. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "STICK": A stick of eels ♦ be in a cleft stick ♦ beat with a stick ♦ beat with stick ♦ big stick ♦ Buff stick ♦ cache On A STick ♦ cancer stick ♦ carrot or stick ♦ carrot stick ♦ celery stick ♦ cleft stick ♦ composing stick ♦ control stick ♦ crooked stick ♦ cue stick ♦ Dan leno stick ♦ devil's walking stick ♦ dip stick ♦ dogwood stick ♦ dry as a stick ♦ dry stick ♦ dull stick ♦ fencing stick ♦ fiddle stick ♦ fire stick ♦ fish stick ♦ Foot stick ♦ get hold the wrong end of the stick ♦ get the stick ♦ get the wrong end of the stick ♦ give the stick ♦ Gold stick ♦ guess stick ♦ Gum stick ♦ gunning stick ♦ Gutter stick ♦ hockey stick ♦ ice hockey stick ♦ joss stick ♦ joy stick ♦ kohl stick ♦ lacrosse stick ♦ laundry stick ♦ licorice stick ♦ make smth. stick ♦ match stick ♦ measuring stick ♦ mesh stick ♦ message stick ♦ night stick ♦ oil stick ♦ orange stick ♦ piling stick ♦ planting stick ♦ pogo stick ♦ polo stick ♦ pool stick ♦ proof stick ♦ rack stick ♦ setting stick ♦ shaving stick ♦ shooting stick ♦ silver stick ♦ size stick ♦ ski stick ♦ slap stick ♦ slash with a stick ♦ stemming stick ♦ stick a knife into smth. ♦ stick a pig ♦ stick a poster on the wall ♦ stick a stamp on ♦ stick a stamp on a letter ♦ stick a stamp on the letter ♦ stick about ♦ stick around ♦ stick at ♦ stick at a job ♦ stick at nothing ♦ stick by ♦ stick by smb. ♦ stick chimney ♦ stick cinnamon ♦ stick close to smb. ♦ stick cohesion ♦ stick down ♦ stick fast ♦ stick figure ♦ stick firmly ♦ stick force ♦ stick forward ♦ stick horse ♦ stick in ♦ stick in one's throat ♦ stick in the mind ♦ stick in the mud ♦ stick in the throat ♦ stick insect ♦ stick into ♦ stick it. Additional references.

Beginning with "STICK": stick-a-bum, stick-and-ball, stick-and-carrot, stick-and-dog, stick-and-rudder, stick-figure, stick-float, stick-head, stick-insect, stick-in-the-mud, stick-in-the-muddish, stick-in-the-muds, Stick-lac, stick-licking, stick-like, stick-maker, stick-man, stick-microphone, stick-mikes, stick-nest, stick-on, stick-on address label, stick-pin, stick-pinned, Stick-seed, stick-signals, stick-that-in-your-pipe-and-smoke-it, stick-thin, stick-tight, stick-tight flea, stick-to-itiveness, stick-up, stick-waving.

Ending with "STICK": gear-stick, joss-stick, lip-stick, shooting-stick, swagger-stick, walking-stick.

Containing "STICK": box-stick-and-banana, candle-stick-maker, carrot-and-stick policy, joss-stick-scented, reinforce-and-stick-with-it, rum-stick-a-bum, self-stick note, walking-stick-in-the-hand.

Afrikaans

stok (baton, cane), plak (glue, plate, sheet, slab, slice). (various references)

Albanian

shkop (bat, baton, Billy, cane, cudgel, pointer, pole, rod, roost, staff, truncheon, walking stick). (various references)

Arabic 

‏الإلتصاقية, ‏برز (accentuate, break out, bring out, bulge, come into view, display, emerge, excrete, feature, form, germinate, heighten, image, jut, outcrop, outdo, point, project, protrude, raise, relieve, shine, shoot, show up, spring, stand out, stick out), ‏عصا (cane, leg, perch, pole, prop, staff, stave, switch, tally, truncheon), ‏عانى (bear, brook, experience, know, pain, suffer), ‏عائق (balk, bar, barrier, clog, deterrent, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, embarrassment, encumbrance, fencing, hamper, handicap, hindrance, impediment, inconvenience, interference, jam, liability, morass, obstruction, obstructive, restraint, setback, shackle, stumbling block, stymie, tie, trammel, traverse), ‏طعنة (cut, hurt, prick, stab, thrust, twinge), ‏ذبح (evert, kill, killing, massacre, murder, slain, slaughter, slay), ‏سند بعود, ‏العصا (baton), ‏تردد (ambivalence, backwards, balance, be in two minds, boggle, crane, demur, difficulty, dither, fainting, falter, flicker, float, fluctuate, fluctuation, hang, haunt, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hover, hum and haw, indecision, irresolution, pause, perplexity, puzzle over, reticence, reverberate, scruple, shilly shally, sound, stop, stumble, tergiversation, timidity, vacillate, vacillation, vibrate, vibration, waver, wobble, worry), ‏إنتصب (rear, recover, sit up, stand up, straighten up), ‏أقحم (infix, inset, interject, interpolate, nuzzle, poke, squeeze, stab, stuff, thrust, wedge, work in, wring), ‏أرهق بعبء, ‏ثابر (lurk, persevere, persist), ‏ثبت (affirm, anchor, assure, aver, belay, belt, bend, bite, bolt, bolt on, brace, cable, catch, chock, confirm, corroborate, countersign, demonstrate, display, endure, establish, evince, fastening, fix, lash, last, pin down, plant, prove, reinforce, secure, set, spike, stabilize, stay, steady, strengthen, substantiate, testify, validate, verify, warrant), ‏شخص (baby, bloke, body, boy, cuss, customer, diagnose, effigy, embody, guy, individual, joker, man, person, personate, scout, sort, specimen, spirit), ‏دعامة (abutment, armature, backlog, beam, brace, crutch, hold, leg, pier, pillar, prop, shore, slip, slipway, staff, stanchion, stock, strut, support), ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), ‏قضيب (bar, baton, draw-bar, mace, penis, phallus, pointer, rail, rod, shaft, staff, stem, switch, wand), ‏مقدار من مسكر, ‏مقبض (grasp, grip, grip handle, haft, handgrip, handle, inlet, lever, lug, panhandle, power outlet, shaft, shank, socket, squeeze), ‏مضرب (driver, drumstick, on, paddle, striker, striking), ‏نتوء (bulge, bump, bunch, cusp, facet, jut, knob, ledge, lump, nub, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, salience, salient, shell, snag, spur, stick up), ‏نتأ (beetle, bulge, butt, emboss, jut, pout, project, protrude, stick out), ‏نسق قنابل, ‏عقبة (barricade, block, blockade, bunker, difficulty, drawback, hitch, hurdle, inconvenience, interference, jam, obstacle, obstruction, snag, spine, stumbling block), ‏قطعة من أثاث, ‏كوم (accumulate, amass, bank, heap, heap up, hill up, jam, lumber, pile, pile up, rake, scrape, stack, tamp, tumble), ‏وخزة (prick), ‏واظب (peg away, persevere, worry at), ‏غوص في الرمل, ‏غرز (batter, bog, drawing pin, impact, implant, jam, lodge, pike, plant, plunge, poke, push, sink, stab, stick in, thrust), ‏حشر (cram, crush, poke, push, ram, squash, thrust), ‏تحمل (afford, bear, bear up, bearing, decamp, defray, endure, firmness, have smb. over, hold out, incur, last, lump it, mizzle, pocket, put up with, see, stand, stick it out, stomach, suffer, support, sustain, tighten, tolerate, undergo), ‏تسمر (nailing), ‏لصق (affix, cement, fasten, fix, glue, gum, paste, patch, post, splice, stick down, unite). (various references)

Bulgarian 

бодвам (pink, pinprick, prick, prickle, prod), диригентска палка (baton), загазвам (flounder), залоствам се, забождам (pin up), забивам пръчка, забивам (drive in, embed, fix, grind into, hammer, jab, knock home, nail, plant, plunge, ram, sink, smash, thrust, thrust in), запазвам се (keep, last, persist, stand, stick on, survive), запирам се, лепя се, лепя (agglutinate, glue, gum, hang, stick in), лепна, затруднявам (beat, complicate, embarrass, encumber, hamper, hinder, nonplus, overwhelm, put out, straiten, stump, trouble), бодване (prick, prod, puncture), мамя (cozen, deceive, dupe, fiddle, flim-flam, gag, gouge, hocus, hoodwink, impose, jockey, juggle, mock, play along, play possum with, rook, shark, string along, take, twist, victimize), бода (offend, prick, prickle, prong, stab), бастун (cane, walking stick), пъхам (dig, infix, poke, pop, put in, shove, thrust), пръчка (bar, bastinado, rod), прът (club, pivot, pole, rod, upright), пробождам (impale, jab, prong, puncture, run through, skewer, thrust through, transfix), показвам (demonstrate, denote, dial, disclose, display, evince, exhibit, give, indicate, manifest, present, proclaim, protrude, read, register, show, show around, signify, tell, trot, witness), понасям (bear, bear off, bide, carry, carry off, digest, drag along, go, incur, play along, pocket, see, stand, suffer, support, sweep away, take, tolerate, undergo), полепвам (adhere, cling), палка (billet, club, cosh, truncheon, wand), инертен човек, държа се (acquit oneself, act, bear, bear up, comport, comport oneself, conduct oneself, demean, deport oneself, hold, hold on, hold one's own, quit, stand out, walk), бутвам (tip), гористи пущинаци, стърча (bulge, jut, jut out, override, project, protrude, stand out, wait about), стрък (blade, growth, shoot, stem), стоя (abide, keep, remain, sit, sit up, stand, stay, tarry), слагам (apply, deposit, fit in, fix, ground, implant, impose, lay, lay down, pass, pitch, place, plank down, pop, posit, position, pull on, put, put down, put in, put on, put to, rest, run, set, sew on, ship, stand, stick down, vat), ръгам (jab, poke, prod, thrust), цигара от марихуана, търпя (abide, accept, admit, bear, digest, endure, play along, put up with, suffer, support, tolerate), турям (put, put on, set), тояга (bat, club, cudgel, staff), компас (compass, dial, galley, setting-stick), коля (butcher, kill, massacre, murder, slaughter), закучвам се, клечка (peg), съчка, втиквам (infix, insert, plant, push in), вкарвам (draw in, drive, drive in, fit in, get in, introduce, let in, put in, set, thrust, wheel in), вземам повече такса, вземам повече пари, оставам (abide, continue, endure, let, persist, remain, remain behind, stay, stay behind, void), озадачавам (bepuzzle, bewilder, floor, flummox, hobble, intrigue, maze, mystify, perplex, pose, puzzle, rattle, stick up for, stumble, stump, vex), набождам се, наблъсквам (congest, cram in, huddle, pack in). (various references)

Catalan

pal (baton, cane). (various references)

Chinese 

棍子 (rod). (various references)

Czech

probodnout (impale, Pierce, Pike, pink, prick, stab, transfix), držet (adhere, hold, keep), hùl (baton, crook, rod, staff), klacek (bludgeon, bully, club, cudgel, hobbledehoy, lout, lubber), násada (butt, haft, handle, helve), nalepit (hang), přilepit (affix, attach, glue on, paste, paste on), připnout (tack), dřevo (block, Holt, sap-wood, timber, wood), porazit (bear down, beat, best, butcher, chop down, conquer, cut down, defeat, fell, hack down, hew, hew down, kill, knock down, overthrow, overturn, run down, smite, strike down, stump, tumble, vanquish), zastrèit (bolt, hold in, insert, push down, slip, tuck, tuck in), prolévat (shed), prut (bar, rod, wand, weal), taktovka (baton), tyè (bar, pole, post, rail, rod, scape, shank, staff, upright), vìtvièka (twig), vìzet (inhere), vrazit (Bury, poke, put, stick in, strike, thrust), zapíchnout, podepřít tyèkou. (various references)

Danish

klæbe (sticking, to stick). (various references)

Dutch

vastkleven, stokje (little stick, rod, switch, wand), staf (baton, cane, staff), kleven (adhere, soldering, sticking, sticking mark, stuck, to stick), aanhangen (adhere to). (various references)

Esperanto

gluiĝi, glui (glue), bastono (baton, cane), bastoneto (little stick), algluiĝi. (various references)

Faeroese

stavur (baton, cane), líma (glue). (various references)

Farsi 

گیرکردن (Stymie), الصاق کردن , عصا (Bat, Cane, Rod, Wand), سوراخ کردن 1 (Bore, Broach, Delve, Gimlet, Gore, Impale, Notch, Perforate, Punch, Puncture, Scuttle, Slot, Spit, Stab, Steek, Thrust, Transfix), تردیدکردن (Doubt, Totter), تاخیر (Deferment, Demur, Retardation, Subsequence), تحمل چسبیدن , وضع (Aspect, Behavior, Deduction, Demeanour, Gesture, Imposition, Lie, Mien, Ordonnance, Phase, Poise, Pose, Position, Posture, Self, Setup, Situation, Speed, Stance, Station, Status, Trim), الصاق (Adherence, Adhesion), گیرافتادن (Pin, Strand, Tangle), فرورفتن (Merge, Sink), کردن (Braid, Do, Fold, Gig, Grade, Ground, Hatch, Have, Hinder, Joint, List, Lob, Pass, Peer, Perform, Pickup, Poop, Ramble, Rest, Set, Settle, Tag, Thread, Tip), نصب کردن (Fix, Mount, Pitch, Setup, Uprear), چسباندن (Agglutinate, Attach, Bind, Cement, Glue, Gum, Paste), چسبندگی (Adherence, Cohesion, Tenacity), چسبناک (Cohesive, Goo, Gooey, Slab, Sticky, String, Tacky), چوب (Rod, Shaft, Spunk, Stave, Timber, Wood), چماق (Bat, Bludgeon, Cudgel, Mace, Maul, Stave), پیچ درکار, وقفه (Abeyance, Break, Caesura, Cease, Chasm, Deadlock, Gap, Hiatus, Interval, Jib, Paralysis, Pause, Standstill, Station, Suspension). (various references)

Finnish

puikko (knitting needle, pin, suppository), keppi (baton, cane). (various references)

French

stick, canne, crosse (lacrosse stick, staff), coller (stick down), baguette (piling stick, piling strip, stacking strip, sticker, strip), bâtonnet (little stick), bâton (staff). (various references)

Frisian

lymje (glue). (various references)

German

Stock (baton, cane, cue, floor, massif, pointer, pot plant, rock mass, roots, rosebush, staff, stock, stocks, storey, story, vine), Stab (bar, baton, cane, crook, crosier, dipstick, headquarters, Mace, panel, pole, rail, rod, staff, stave, stump, swab, wand), Stecken (baton, be, be hiding, be pinned, be sticking, be stuck, cane, case, devote, enter, insert, jack in, lay down, pick, pin, pin up, place, plant, plug, plunge, poke, pop, put, put down, put in, put up, set, slot, stab, sting, thrust, tuck), stechen (be prickly, beat down, bite, check out, clock in, clock on, cut, engrave, jab, kill, pang, pick, Pierce, prick, prickle, puncture, ring in, run off, spear, stab, sting, take, take the trick, twinge), kleben (adhere, cleave, cleft, cling, cloven, glue, gum, hang, hanging, paste, splice, tape, to paste, to splice). (various references)

Greek 

κολλώ (adhere, cleave, cling, contract, glue, gum, gum up, intrude, paste, size, solder, stick stuck stuck). (various references)

Hawaiian

shkop (baton, cane). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקל (extenuating, ferule, indulgent, lenient, palliative, rod, staff, stave, switch), מקוש (clapper, drumstick, gong, striker), לתקוע (jab, poke, toot), לדקור (needle, prick, stab, thrust), לדבוק (adhere, cleave, cling, gum, join), לנעוץ (fasten, fix upon, insert, spear, stab, thrust), שבט (baton, clan, family, rod, sceptre, tribe), קנה (cane, Reed, rod, stalk, stem), ענף (bough, branch, branchy, extensive, ramified, sector, sprig, sprout, widespread), חוטרא, אדם משעמם. (various references)

Hungarian

bot (baton, cane, pole, rod, staff, stave), husáng (baton, cane, cudgel, spear). (various references)

Indonesian

tongkat (cane, goad, paddle, staff, truncheon, wand), menempel (adhere, cling, glue, patch), gantel (hang from), bertempel (be next to), batang (corpse, log, pole, rod, stem, trunk). (various references)

Italian

appiccicare (be sticky, glue), incollare (adhere, cleave, glue, paste, stick on), ficcare (dive, drive, poke, pop in, put, ram, shove, stuff, thrust), canna (barrel, cane, canna, crossbar, fishing rod, funnel, pipe, Reed, rod), bastone (baton, cane, club, perch, rod, truncheon, walkingstick), bastoncino (switch). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鞭 (counter for whipping, whip), 棍棒 (club, cudgel), 棒切れ (bit of a broken pole, piece of wood), 棒 (pole, rod), ステアリン酸 (dance step, stacker, state, status, steal, stearic acid, Stegodon, Stegosaurus, step, step-by-step, stepfamily, steppe, stepping, steps, sticker, stinger, stitch, thingirl). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぼうきれ (bit of a broken pole, piece of wood), ぼう (ancient Chinese imperial jewels, certain, divide, fourth sign of Chinese zodiac, length, net, one, people, pole, rod, shaggy dog, shaggy hair), こんぼう (club, cudgel, earnest request, entreaty, mixed spinning, mixed yarn, solicitation), ステッキ , スティック , むち (ignorance, shameless, stupidity, whip). (various references)

Korean 

지방이 (Sticks&Stones). (various references)

Manx

seiy (agitate, bear down, churn, churning, foment, fomentation, gore, gore of bull, knife, litter, lunge, mix up, mixing, mixture, muddy; pushing, prod, propel, propulsion, protrusion, push, shove, shoving, stab, stir, stir up, thrust, tilt, tilting, transfix), maidjey (bail, bail in stable, bar, bar on doorway, bat, boarding, club, cue, lever, pitprop, pointer, pole, rod, straddle, wooden), lhiantyn (attach, clinging, habitual, obsess, run on, stick on, take after), lhiannaghtyn, greimmey (adhere, adherence, adherence of person, adhesion, attach, bite, bite off, catch, clutch, fishing tackle, grab, grasp, grip, gripping, hold, jam, lock in, monopolization, nab, pin on, seize, seizing, snap, snatch, snatch away, snatching, stitch, stitch up, tooth), crouw (branch of society, bunch, bush, dwarf tree, Masonic lodge, stock, tributary of river, wide spreading tree). (various references)

Maya

tak (to stick). (various references)

Norwegian

stokk (baton, cane). (various references)

Papiamen

takon (baton, cane), takòn (baton, cane), palu (baton, cane, pole, post, stake, stanchion, timber, tree, wood), leim (glue), baston (baton, cane), bastòn (baton, cane). (various references)

Pig Latin

ickstay.(various references)

Portuguese

bastão (bat, baton, billy, cane, mace, mallet, rod, staff, wand), vara (baton, cane, ell, fish rod, herd, pole, staff, stake, stalk, switch, wand, wattle), pau (bar, baton, cane, mast, pole, rod, tent-peg, timber, wood), colar (affix, attach, beads, bind, bung, chain, collar, collate, crib, glue, gum, necklace, paste), bordão (baton, cane, fish rod, rod, staff, stave, support), bengala (baton, Bengal, cane). (various references)

Romanian

suporta (abide, bear, bear with, digest, endure, forbear, stand, stomach, suffer, support, sustain, tolerate), suferi (abide, ail, allow, bear, Brook, carry out, endure, experience, go through, have, languish, permit, put up with, smart, stand, suffer, undergo), se lipi (adhere, cling, cuddle, hook on, snuggle, solder), se înfige, înfunda (clog, head, obstruct, pad, shove, stuff), barã (balk, bar, gate, ingot, joist, pig, strut), baghetã (rod, switch, wand), bãga (Bob, drive, immerse, impress, insert, interject, introduce, intrude, invest, involve, jab, land, Lodge, put in, Stow, stuff, thrust, tuck), bãţ (bat, club, gad, rod, switch), arcuş (bow), aman, aderare (adherence, adhering, espousal), baston (bat, baton, cane, cudgel, Mace, rod, staff, stave, walking stick), înfundare (choke, packing), catarg (mast, topmast), înfige (dig, drive, hurl, infix, run, set, thrust), îndura (abide, bear, carry out, endure, experience, forbear, indurate, put up with, suffer, support, sustain, undergo), înţepa (bite, prick, prickle, puncture, sting), împunsãturã (butt, cant, dig, jab, jeer, jest, pang, prick, prod, stitch, tack, thrust), aşeza (arrange, bed, beset, bestow, build, collocate, dispose, encase, establish, fall, fix, impose, lay, lay down,