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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   stick

   • IPA[stik]

   美式

   • n.
     a thin piece of wood that has fallen or been cut from a tree.；a long piece of wood used for support in walking or as a weapon with which to hit someone or something.

   • noun: stick, plural noun: sticks

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a thin piece of wood that has fallen or been cut from a tree. 同義詞 piece of wood, twig, small branch, cane, pole, ... 更多beanpole, post, stake, upright, rod
   • ▪ a long piece of wood used for support in walking or as a weapon with which to hit someone or something. 同義詞 walking stick, cane, staff, malacca, alpenstock, ... 更多blackthorn, ashplant, rattan, thumb stick, crook, crutch, waddy, club, cudgel, bludgeon, shillelagh, truncheon, baton, cane, birch, switch, rod, lathi, danda, kierie, knobkerrie, informalcosh
   • ▪ (in hockey, polo, and other games) a long implement, typically made of wood, with a head or blade of varying form that is used to hit or direct the ball or puck.
   • ▪ (in field hockey) the foul play of raising the stick above the shoulder.
   • ▪ a short piece of wood used to impale food Popsicle sticks
   • ▪ informal goalposts.
   • ▪ archaic a mast or spar.
   • ▪ a piece of basic furniture every stick of furniture just vanished
   • 2. a long, thin piece of something a stick of dynamite cinnamon sticks
   • ▪ (in extended and metaphorical use) a very thin person or limb the girl was a stick her arms were like sticks
   • ▪ a conductor's baton.
   • ▪ a gear or control lever.
   • ▪ US a quarter-pound rectangular block of butter or margarine.
   • ▪ a number of bombs or paratroopers dropped rapidly from an aircraft the sticks of bombs rained down
   • ▪ a small group of soldiers assigned to a particular duty a stick of heavily armed guards
   • ▪ informal a marijuana cigarette.
   • 3. a threat of punishment or unwelcome measures (often contrasted with the offer of reward as a means of persuasion) training that relies more on the carrot than on the stick
   • 4. British informal severe criticism or treatment I took a lot of stick from the press 同義詞 criticism, flak, censure, reproach, reproof, ... 更多condemnation, castigation, chastisement, blame, abuse, punishment, informala bashing, a roasting, a caning, an earful, a bawling-out, verbal, a rollicking, a wigging, a rocket, a row, vulgar slanga bollocking, rareanimadversion反義詞 praise, commendation
   • 5. informal, derogatory rural areas far from cities a small, dusty town out in the sticks
   • 6. informal, dated a person of a specified kind Janet's not such a bad old stick sometimes

   片語

   • get the dirty end of the stick
   • get the short end of the stick
   • get the wrong end of the stick
   • sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
   • up the stick
   • up sticks