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- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- a small thin branch of a tree
- (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- (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.
- (slang) A bar (counter where drinks are served).
- (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- (boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
- (figurative) 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.)
- (uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
- (US, colloquial, uncountable) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- (baseball) General hitting ability.
- (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- (sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- (field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- (aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- (video games) A joystick.
- (US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- (computing) A memory stick.
- (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.
- (uncountable) The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- (slang) A handgun.
- (computing) Any of the eight 16-character groups making up the 128 characters of the 7-bit ASCII character set.
- (countable) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- (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).
- (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
- (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- (jazz, slang) The clarinet.
- (slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment, beatings
- (British, figurative) Criticism or ridicule, often in the expressions "get a lot of stick", "get some stick", "come in for some stick", etc.
- (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.)
- (US military slang, World War I) An aircraft’s propeller.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
- a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
- a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
- a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
- threat of a penalty
- an implement consisting of a length of wood
- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- informal terms for the leg
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- (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
- (intransitive) To persist.
- (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
- (transitive, gymnastics, aviation, sports) To perform (a landing or a shot) perfectly.
- (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To hit with a stick.
- (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- (intransitive, blackjack, chiefly UK) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
- (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.
- (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
- (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- fasten with an adhesive material like glue
- pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument
- cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
- be loyal to
- fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something
- stick to firmly
- be in a certain place and not leave
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- fasten with or as with pins or nails
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed
- be a devoted follower or supporter
- put, fix, force, or implant
- endure
- be or become fixed
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- a thorny stem or twig
- Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
- evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
- tangled mass of prickly plants
- a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries
- Alternative spelling of briar.
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- a thin supple twig or rod
- a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir
- a ceremonial or emblematic staff
- a rod used by a magician or water diviner
- A stick or rod used by a magician (a magic wand), conjurer or diviner (divining rod).
- (UK, soccer, figurative, informal) A player's foot used especially skillfully in football.
- A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
- A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.
- A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.
- (by extension) An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand.
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- A small spray or twig.
- (ornithology) The stem of a barb of a feather, from which the barbules extend.
- (biology) A branching, as of nerves or blood vessels.
- (anatomy) A bony projection, particularly of the jaw, but also in the groin area, both subject to the maturing process of symphysis.
- the posterior part of the mandible that is more or less vertical
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- branch out in a twiglike manner
- (intransitive) To be realized and understood; to click.
- To twitch
- (transitive) To beat with twigs.
- To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
- (colloquial, regional) To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something.
- To tweak
- To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
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- (most regions, of light skin) Of a sickly pale colour.
- Foul; murky; sickly.
- (Ireland) Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.
- (of a person) Having skin (especially on the face) of a sickly pale colour.
- (of objects or dim light) Having a similar pale, yellowish colour.
- unhealthy looking
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- An ornament resembling a small shoot or twig.
- A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray.
- A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
- (humorous, sometimes mildly derogatory) A youth; a lad.
- A house sparrow.
- One of the separate pieces of lace fastened on a ground in applique lace.
- A brad, or nail without a head.
- a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
- an ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers
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- A small clump of trees or bushes.
- (historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
- A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
- A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
- (historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
- a bunch of feathers or hair
- a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
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- small semi-evergreen shrubby tree of southeastern United States having hairy young branchlets and leaves narrowing to a slender bristly point
- small slow-growing deciduous shrubby tree of dry sandy barrens of southeastern United States having leaves with bristle-tipped lobes resembling turkey's toes
- large round-topped deciduous tree with spreading branches having narrow falcate leaves with deeply sinuate lobes and wood similar to that of northern red oaks; New Jersey to Illinois and southward
- large deciduous tree of central and southern Europe and Asia Minor having lanceolate leaves with spiked lobes
- Quercus incana, of the southern U.S., from Texas through the Piedmont to Virginia
- Quercus laevis, of the southeastern U.S.
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- a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment
- hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood
- any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark
- A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.
- A birch-bark canoe.
- A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.
- Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
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- flexible twig of a willow tree
- any of various willows having pliable twigs used in basketry and furniture
- (loosely) Any kind of willow.
- A willow, of species Salix viminalis, growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America, considered the best willow for wickerwork.
- (countable, uncountable) Long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants.
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- small evergreen of eastern North America having tiny scalelike leaves on flattened branchlets
- slow-growing medium-sized cedar of east coast of the United States; resembles American arborvitae
- A chinaberry shrub (Melia azedarach), in family Meliaceae.
- A tree of species Tabebuia heterophylla, of the Caribbean and South America, in family Bignoniaceae.
- A Mexican white cedar (Cupressus lusitanica)
- An Atlantic white cypress, Chamaecyparis thyoides.
- An evergreen coniferous tree, of species (Thuja occidentalis, native to the northeastern US and southeastern Canada.
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- A small group of trees or plants.
- A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
- The compressed clay of coal strata.
- (historical) A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.
- A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
- A dull thud.
- a grouping of a number of similar things
- a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)
- a compact mass
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- (ambitransitive) To gather in dense groups.
- (transitive, UK, regional) To strike; to beat.
- (ambitransitive) To form clusters or lumps.
- (intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.
- come together as in a cluster or flock
- gather or cause to gather into a cluster
- make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground
- walk clumsily
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- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- A mistake or error.
- (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- An outside covering or case.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- (nautical, aviation) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- Either side of the gallery in a theater.
- A fish, the sole.
- (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
- (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- A slipdress.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- (electricity) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- (nautical) A slipway.
- (crosswording) A newsletter produced by the setter of a cryptic clue-writing competition, containing a full list of winners and commentary on the clues.
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- (telecommunications) The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- (aviation) Clipping of sideslip.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a slippery smoothness
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
- a young and slender person
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- an unexpected slide
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- a small sheet of paper
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- a socially awkward or tactless act
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- (transitive) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) Clipping of sideslip (“to fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind”).
- (transitive) To elude or evade by smooth movement.
- (transitive) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- (intransitive) To err.
- (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
- (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.
- (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
- (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- move out of position
- pass out of one's memory
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- move stealthily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- move easily
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- (botany) A small plant leaf.
- (botany) One of the components of a compound leaf.
- A small sheet of paper containing information, used for dissemination of said information, often an advertisement.
- (anatomy) A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel.
- a thin triangular flap of a heart valve
- part of a compound leaf
- a small book usually having a paper cover
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- an apple twig borer (Amphicerus bicaudatus)
- a flatheaded appletree borer (Chrysobothris femorata)
- an apple stem borer (Apriona cinerea)
- a roundheaded apple borer (Saperda candida, syn. Saperda bivittata)
- a red-belted clearwing, apple clearwing moth (Synanthedon myopaeformis)
- an apple trunk borer (Coryphodema tristis)
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- The shrub or small tree that bears the fruit.
- A dark red or orange-red colour, like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit.
- The fruit of the Punica granatum, about the size of an orange with a thick, hard, reddish skin enclosing many seeds, each with an edible pink or red pulp tasting both sweet and tart.
- shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit
- large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind
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- (botany) a tiny outgrowth on the surface of a petal or leaf
- a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell
- a small projection of tissue at the base of a hair or tooth or feather
- Any of the small protuberances on the upper surface of the tongue often containing taste buds.
- Any of the vascular protuberances of the dermal layer of the skin extending into the epidermal layer and often containing tactile corpuscles.
- A vascular process of connective tissue extending into and nourishing the root of a hair, feather, or developing tooth.
- (botany) A small fleshy projection on a plant.
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- A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
- (UK, slang, derogatory) A chav or ned; a stereotypically loud and aggressive person of lower social class.
- (Australia, slang, derogatory) A rough or unkempt woman.
- (Scotland) A scrog.
- a person who is unusually thin and scrawny
- lean end of the neck
- the lean end of a neck of veal
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- strong flexible twig
- band or rope made of twisted twigs or stems
- A band of twisted twigs.
- (nautical) An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured.
- (architecture) Alternative spelling of wythe (“partition between flues in a chimney”).
- (masonry) Alternative spelling of wythe (“single section of bricks one unit thick”).
- A flexible, slender shoot or twig, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy.
- An elastic handle to a tool to save the hand from the shock of blows.
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- small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit
- fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples
- A tree, Carica papaya, native to tropical America, belonging to the order Brassicales, that produces dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit.
- (less common) A father.
- Alternative form of pawpaw, a grandfather, especially one's paternal grandfather.
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- small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit
- fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples
- tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
- Asimina, a genus of trees and shrubs native to eastern North America, especially common pawpaw (Asimina triloba).
- Mountain pawpaw (Vasconcellea pubescens), a fruit tree native to South America.
- The fruit of these trees.
- (dialectal or colloquial) Grandfather.
- Papaya (Carica papaya), a widely cultivated tropical fruit tree.
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- a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer
- A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner; a burr knot.
- Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
- A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
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- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- a small thin branch of a tree
- (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- (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.
- (slang) A bar (counter where drinks are served).
- (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- (boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
- (figurative) 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.)
- (uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
- (US, colloquial, uncountable) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- (baseball) General hitting ability.
- (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- (sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- (field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- (aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- (video games) A joystick.
- (US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- (computing) A memory stick.
- (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.
- (uncountable) The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- (slang) A handgun.
- (computing) Any of the eight 16-character groups making up the 128 characters of the 7-bit ASCII character set.
- (countable) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- (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).
- (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
- (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- (jazz, slang) The clarinet.
- (slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment, beatings
- (British, figurative) Criticism or ridicule, often in the expressions "get a lot of stick", "get some stick", "come in for some stick", etc.
- (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.)
- (US military slang, World War I) An aircraft’s propeller.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
- a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
- a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
- a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
- threat of a penalty
- an implement consisting of a length of wood
- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- informal terms for the leg
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- (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
- (intransitive) To persist.
- (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
- (transitive, gymnastics, aviation, sports) To perform (a landing or a shot) perfectly.
- (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To hit with a stick.
- (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- (intransitive, blackjack, chiefly UK) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
- (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.
- (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
- (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- fasten with an adhesive material like glue
- pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument
- cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
- be loyal to
- fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something
- stick to firmly
- be in a certain place and not leave
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- fasten with or as with pins or nails
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed
- be a devoted follower or supporter
- put, fix, force, or implant
- endure
- be or become fixed
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- a thorny stem or twig
- Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
- evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
- tangled mass of prickly plants
- a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries
- Alternative spelling of briar.
noun
- a thin supple twig or rod
- a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir
- a ceremonial or emblematic staff
- a rod used by a magician or water diviner
- A stick or rod used by a magician (a magic wand), conjurer or diviner (divining rod).
- (UK, soccer, figurative, informal) A player's foot used especially skillfully in football.
- A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
- A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.
- A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.
- (by extension) An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand.
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- A small spray or twig.
- (ornithology) The stem of a barb of a feather, from which the barbules extend.
- (biology) A branching, as of nerves or blood vessels.
- (anatomy) A bony projection, particularly of the jaw, but also in the groin area, both subject to the maturing process of symphysis.
- the posterior part of the mandible that is more or less vertical
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- branch out in a twiglike manner
- (intransitive) To be realized and understood; to click.
- To twitch
- (transitive) To beat with twigs.
- To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
- (colloquial, regional) To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something.
- To tweak
- To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
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- (most regions, of light skin) Of a sickly pale colour.
- Foul; murky; sickly.
- (Ireland) Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.
- (of a person) Having skin (especially on the face) of a sickly pale colour.
- (of objects or dim light) Having a similar pale, yellowish colour.
- unhealthy looking
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- An ornament resembling a small shoot or twig.
- A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray.
- A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
- (humorous, sometimes mildly derogatory) A youth; a lad.
- A house sparrow.
- One of the separate pieces of lace fastened on a ground in applique lace.
- A brad, or nail without a head.
- a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
- an ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers
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- A small clump of trees or bushes.
- (historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
- A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
- A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
- (historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
- a bunch of feathers or hair
- a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
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- small semi-evergreen shrubby tree of southeastern United States having hairy young branchlets and leaves narrowing to a slender bristly point
- small slow-growing deciduous shrubby tree of dry sandy barrens of southeastern United States having leaves with bristle-tipped lobes resembling turkey's toes
- large round-topped deciduous tree with spreading branches having narrow falcate leaves with deeply sinuate lobes and wood similar to that of northern red oaks; New Jersey to Illinois and southward
- large deciduous tree of central and southern Europe and Asia Minor having lanceolate leaves with spiked lobes
- Quercus incana, of the southern U.S., from Texas through the Piedmont to Virginia
- Quercus laevis, of the southeastern U.S.
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- flexible twig of a willow tree
- any of various willows having pliable twigs used in basketry and furniture
- (loosely) Any kind of willow.
- A willow, of species Salix viminalis, growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America, considered the best willow for wickerwork.
- (countable, uncountable) Long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants.
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- small evergreen of eastern North America having tiny scalelike leaves on flattened branchlets
- slow-growing medium-sized cedar of east coast of the United States; resembles American arborvitae
- A chinaberry shrub (Melia azedarach), in family Meliaceae.
- A tree of species Tabebuia heterophylla, of the Caribbean and South America, in family Bignoniaceae.
- A Mexican white cedar (Cupressus lusitanica)
- An Atlantic white cypress, Chamaecyparis thyoides.
- An evergreen coniferous tree, of species (Thuja occidentalis, native to the northeastern US and southeastern Canada.
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- A small group of trees or plants.
- A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
- The compressed clay of coal strata.
- (historical) A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.
- A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
- A dull thud.
- a grouping of a number of similar things
- a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)
- a compact mass
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- (ambitransitive) To gather in dense groups.
- (transitive, UK, regional) To strike; to beat.
- (ambitransitive) To form clusters or lumps.
- (intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.
- come together as in a cluster or flock
- gather or cause to gather into a cluster
- make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground
- walk clumsily
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- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- A mistake or error.
- (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- An outside covering or case.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- (nautical, aviation) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- Either side of the gallery in a theater.
- A fish, the sole.
- (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
- (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- A slipdress.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- (electricity) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- (nautical) A slipway.
- (crosswording) A newsletter produced by the setter of a cryptic clue-writing competition, containing a full list of winners and commentary on the clues.
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- (telecommunications) The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- (aviation) Clipping of sideslip.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a slippery smoothness
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
- a young and slender person
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- an unexpected slide
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- a small sheet of paper
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- a socially awkward or tactless act
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- (transitive) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) Clipping of sideslip (“to fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind”).
- (transitive) To elude or evade by smooth movement.
- (transitive) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- (intransitive) To err.
- (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
- (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.
- (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
- (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- move out of position
- pass out of one's memory
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- move stealthily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- move easily
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- (botany) A small plant leaf.
- (botany) One of the components of a compound leaf.
- A small sheet of paper containing information, used for dissemination of said information, often an advertisement.
- (anatomy) A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel.
- a thin triangular flap of a heart valve
- part of a compound leaf
- a small book usually having a paper cover
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- an apple twig borer (Amphicerus bicaudatus)
- a flatheaded appletree borer (Chrysobothris femorata)
- an apple stem borer (Apriona cinerea)
- a roundheaded apple borer (Saperda candida, syn. Saperda bivittata)
- a red-belted clearwing, apple clearwing moth (Synanthedon myopaeformis)
- an apple trunk borer (Coryphodema tristis)
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- The shrub or small tree that bears the fruit.
- A dark red or orange-red colour, like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit.
- The fruit of the Punica granatum, about the size of an orange with a thick, hard, reddish skin enclosing many seeds, each with an edible pink or red pulp tasting both sweet and tart.
- shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit
- large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind
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- (botany) a tiny outgrowth on the surface of a petal or leaf
- a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell
- a small projection of tissue at the base of a hair or tooth or feather
- Any of the small protuberances on the upper surface of the tongue often containing taste buds.
- Any of the vascular protuberances of the dermal layer of the skin extending into the epidermal layer and often containing tactile corpuscles.
- A vascular process of connective tissue extending into and nourishing the root of a hair, feather, or developing tooth.
- (botany) A small fleshy projection on a plant.
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- A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
- (UK, slang, derogatory) A chav or ned; a stereotypically loud and aggressive person of lower social class.
- (Australia, slang, derogatory) A rough or unkempt woman.
- (Scotland) A scrog.
- a person who is unusually thin and scrawny
- lean end of the neck
- the lean end of a neck of veal
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- strong flexible twig
- band or rope made of twisted twigs or stems
- A band of twisted twigs.
- (nautical) An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured.
- (architecture) Alternative spelling of wythe (“partition between flues in a chimney”).
- (masonry) Alternative spelling of wythe (“single section of bricks one unit thick”).
- A flexible, slender shoot or twig, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy.
- An elastic handle to a tool to save the hand from the shock of blows.
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- small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit
- fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples
- A tree, Carica papaya, native to tropical America, belonging to the order Brassicales, that produces dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit.
- (less common) A father.
- Alternative form of pawpaw, a grandfather, especially one's paternal grandfather.
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- small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit
- fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples
- tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
- Asimina, a genus of trees and shrubs native to eastern North America, especially common pawpaw (Asimina triloba).
- Mountain pawpaw (Vasconcellea pubescens), a fruit tree native to South America.
- The fruit of these trees.
- (dialectal or colloquial) Grandfather.
- Papaya (Carica papaya), a widely cultivated tropical fruit tree.
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- a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer
- A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner; a burr knot.
- Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
- A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
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- branch out in a twiglike manner
- (intransitive) To be realized and understood; to click.
- To twitch
- (transitive) To beat with twigs.
- To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
- (colloquial, regional) To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something.
- To tweak
- To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
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- a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment
- hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood
- any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark
- A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.
- A birch-bark canoe.
- A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.
- Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
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