stickied English
Verb
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(sticky)
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sticky English
Adjective
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Able or likely to stick.
- Is this tape sticky enough to stay on that surface?
Potentially difficult to escape from.
- This is a sticky situation. We could be in this for weeks if we're not careful.
* 2014 , Michael White, " Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe ", The Guardian , 8 September 2014:
- 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.
(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.
Of weather, hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
Derived terms
* stickily
* stickiness
* sticky-backed plastic
* sticky bit
* sticky fingers
* sticky wicket
* sticky note
See also
* tacky
Noun
( stickies)
A sticky note, such as a post-it note.
- Her desk is covered with yellow stickies .
(manufacturing) A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
A sweet dessert wine.
Verb
(Internet, bulletin boards) to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
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stickled English
Verb
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stickle English
Verb
( en-verb)
(obsolete) To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.
To argue or struggle (for).
* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
- ‘She has other people than poor little you to think about, and has gone abroad with them; so you needn't be in the least afraid she'll stickle this time for her rights.’
To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters.
(obsolete) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
* Drayton
- Which [question] violently they pursue, / Nor stickled would they be.
(obsolete) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening.
* Sir Philip Sidney
- They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray.
(obsolete) To separate combatants by intervening.
* Dryden
- When he [the angel] sees half of the Christians killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and the race of fiends.
(obsolete) To contend, contest, or altercate, especially in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
* Hudibras
- Fortune, as she's wont, turned fickle, / And for the foe began to stickle .
* Dryden
- for paltry punk they roar and stickle
* Hazlitt
- the obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong
Related terms
* stickler
Noun
( en noun)
(UK, dialect) A shallow rapid in a river.
(UK, dialect) The current below a waterfall.
* W. Browne
- Patient anglers, standing all the day / Near to some shallow stickle or deep bay.
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