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STICKING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary
Example:
a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck
Synonyms:
jutting; projected; projecting; protruding; relieved; sticking; sticking out
Classified under:
Similar:
protrusive (thrusting outward)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb stick
Context examples:
Laurie obediently threw himself down on the turf, and began to amuse himself by sticking daisies into the ribbons of Amy's hat, that lay there.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I laid down the razor, turning as I did so half round to look for some sticking plaster.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A new study has found that not sticking to a regular bedtime and wakeup schedule — and getting different amounts of sleep each night — can put a person at higher risk for obesity, high cholesterol, hypertension, high blood sugar and other metabolic disorders.
(Study links irregular sleep patterns to metabolic disorders, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
This morning when I saw his bones sticking out of his face and his great bright eyes looking at me I could stand no more of it. ‘With your leave or without it, Mr. Holmes, I am going for a doctor this very hour,’ said I. ‘Let it be Watson, then,’ said he.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As bone loss during aging predominantly occurs on the inside rather than outside of a bone, the bigger bone generated by physical activity when young has a means of sticking around long-term to keep the skeleton stronger.
(Physical Activity Brings Lasting Bone Benefits, NIH, US)
The new radar measurements confirm earlier findings that the lakes are far above sea level, but they conjure a new image of landforms - like mesas or buttes - sticking hundreds of feet above the surrounding landscape, with deep liquid lakes on top.
(Cassini Reveals Surprises with Titan's Lakes, NASA)
In the large pocket, on the right side of his middle cover (so I translate the word ranfulo, by which they meant my breeches,) we saw a hollow pillar of iron, about the length of a man, fastened to a strong piece of timber larger than the pillar; and upon one side of the pillar, were huge pieces of iron sticking out, cut into strange figures, which we know not what to make of.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
No matter what you happen to be working on, keep in mind that Capricorn is a no-frills earth sign, so the emphasis will be on stripping your ideas down to core elements and sticking to facts and objectives.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It was sticking out of him in all directions.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"There are her two feet, still sticking out from under a block of wood."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
