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STUCK
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Caught or fixed
Example:
stuck in the mud
Classified under:
Similar:
cragfast (stranded on or as if on a crag)
Antonym:
unstuck (free)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Baffled
Example:
this problem has me completely stuck
Classified under:
Similar:
perplexed (full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb stick
Context examples:
If the AAT proteins aren't the right shape, they get stuck in the liver cells and can't reach the lungs.
(Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Sometimes they happen during childbirth when a baby's shoulders become stuck during delivery and the nerves stretch or tear.
(Brachial Plexus Injuries, NIH)
It was true, she refined it to "position," but it meant the same thing, and in his own mind the old nomenclature stuck.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Tiny defects in the crystalline structure of perovskites, called traps, can cause electrons to get ‘stuck’ before their energy can be harnessed.
(Potassium gives perovskite-based solar cells an efficiency boost, University of Cambridge)
The models enable us to see the wide ranges of conditions that can cause displays to become stuck in the population, evolutionarily, said Maria R. Servedio, an NSF-funded UNC professor and study author.
(For species that mate for life, bonding behaviors provide advantages, National Science Foundation)
In frontotemporal dementia and ALS, the proteins become permanently stuck as abnormally dense gels, trapping the RNA and making it unavailable for use.
(Mechanism behind neuron death in motor neurone disease and frontotemporal dementia discovered, University of Cambridge)
“They clung to the inside and stuck together. When we did the same experiment with sand and volcanic ash using Earth-like conditions, all of it came out. Nothing stuck.”
('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)
But, try what she would, she could not get the pitch off and it stuck to her as long as she lived.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
At this the Queen of the Mice stuck her head out from underneath a clump of grass and asked, in a timid voice, "Are you sure he will not bite us?"
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
The porosity also helps explain their shape: Rather than being spherical, they are blobby and ravioli-like, with material stuck around their equators.
(NASA's Cassini Finds Saturn's Rings Coat Tiny Moons, NASA)
