stick
/stɪk/ sustantivo C2En español: pinchazo, punzada, adherencia
- A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab; an instance of sticking (pricking or piercing).
- An instance of piercing someone with a needle, e.g. to draw blood or start an IV.
- A person whom one is piercing with a needle to draw blood or start an IV (especially in the context of how difficult or easy this is).
- The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
- The traction of tires on the road surface.
- That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
- The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
Plural sticks
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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The farmer carried me under his arm to the cornfield, and set me up on a tall stick, where you found me.
“To wash my face clean after the dust of the road, and to drink, so the dry bread will not stick in my throat.”
through a lying dream of my father’s, which he saw in his sleep, I am shut up on your account in this palace as if I had been a girl: what shall I now do to you?” With these words he stretched out his hands toward a thorn-tree, meaning to cut a stick from its branches so that he might beat the lion.
His master one day, pretending to be angry and shaking his stick at him, said, “You wretched little sluggard!
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