A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
(carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
(nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
(figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden). usage syn.
Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance. transl.
(slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette). syn.
Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
(archaic) A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.
(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. syn.
A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a 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. syn. transl.
(aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. transl. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel ofan automobiles, is also called the "stick".)
(aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
(military, South Africa) A small group of (infantry) soldiers.
Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
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. Compare carrot.)
“If the worker had been properly trained to recognize and understand common reactions to trauma, the client's reaction would not have created such a moment of stuckness.”