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See also: Sticky
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]sticky (comparative stickier, superlative stickiest)
- Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
- Is this tape sticky enough to stay on that surface?
- 2016 June 5, Thomas Manch, “CuriousCity: What happens to my library books when I return them?”, in Stuff[1], archived from the original on 2019-05-04:
- Particularly sticky books are cleaned with methylated spirits.
- Difficult, awkward.
- This is a sticky situation. We could be in this for weeks if we're not careful.
- 2020 June 25, Tegan Bennett Daylight, “My mother taught me the joy of reading. I remember her through books”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-27:
- Among the books Mum brought me to read when I was a child were The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, as well as their author Frances Hodgson Burnett's smash hit, Little Lord Fauntleroy. I haven't met an adult my age who has read this book but I did so several times. It's a sticky book, guided by that strange Victorian obsession with "the little mother" – the same obsession that Virginia Woolf, a child of Victorian parents, grappled with in her diaries and her fiction. Somehow, though, I learned to overlook the archaic, to be open to the oddnesses of different eras, and to read for something else.
- Of a death: unpleasant, grisly.
- 2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won’t believe”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-13:
- Salmond studied medieval Scottish history as well as economics at university so he cannot say he has not had fair warning – it was even more turbulent and bloody than England at that time – and plenty of Scotland's kings and leaders came to a sticky end. If it happens this time, it won't be dull.
- Of weather: hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
- 2008, Robert K. Fitts, Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball:
- The baby was due in December and the hot, sticky August weather was making Jane uncomfortable.
- (finance) Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.
- a sticky price; sticky wages
- (computing, informal, of a setting) Persistent.
- We should make the printing direction sticky so the user doesn't have to keep setting it.
- (computing, of a window) Appearing on all virtual desktops.
- (Internet, of threads on a bulletin board) Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
- (Internet, of a website) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.
- A woman has come to me with the complaint that her website is not sticky: 70% of the visits last 30 seconds or less.
- (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a stick.
- What's something that is brown and sticky? A stick
Synonyms
[edit]- (able or likely to adhere): claggy, tenacious; see also Thesaurus:adhesive
- (hot, windless and humid): close, muggy, sultry; see also Thesaurus:muggy
Derived terms
[edit]- come to a sticky end
- meet a sticky end
- stickily
- stickiness
- sticky-backed plastic
- sticky-back plastic
- sticky bead argument
- sticky-beak
- sticky beak
- sticky bit
- sticky bomb
- sticky bottle
- sticky bun
- sticky catchfly
- sticky currant
- sticky end
- sticky-finger
- sticky finger
- sticky-fingered
- sticky fingers
- sticky foam
- sticky-icky
- sticky note
- sticky-note
- sticky-out
- sticky-outy
- sticky rice
- sticky shed syndrome
- sticky situation
- sticky-sweet
- sticky tape
- sticky-tape
- sticky toffee pudding
- sticky-up
- sticky-uppy
- sticky wicket
- sticky willy
Translations
[edit]able or likely to stick
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potentially difficult to escape from
persistent across multiple incarnations of a widget
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appearing on all virtual desktops
of weather
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See also
[edit]Noun
[edit]sticky (countable and uncountable, plural stickies)
- A sticky note, such as a post-it note.
- Her desk is covered with yellow stickies.
- (Internet) A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
- (manufacturing) A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
- (Australia, colloquial) A sweet dessert wine.
- (slang) Sticky-icky; marijuana, especially the sticky, resin-covered buds.
- 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 268:
- We'd smoked some nice sticky that night and fucked with some Erk and Jerk too, so my head was still cloudy when Pimp came in the room and said get up.
- 2014, Jagada Chambers, Based on a True Story:
- As drunk as I was, all I could think about was getting some sticky down my lungs.
- (obsolete, slang, uncountable) Wax.
Translations
[edit]sticky note, such as a Post-It — see also sticky note
small adhesive particle found in wastepaper
Verb
[edit]sticky (third-person singular simple present stickies, present participle stickying, simple past and past participle stickied)
- (Internet, bulletin boards, transitive) to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
Translations
[edit]to fix a thread at the top of the list
References
[edit]- “sticky”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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