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Sticky vs Tanglefoot - What's the difference?

sticky | tanglefoot |

As nouns the difference between sticky and tanglefoot

is that sticky is a sticky note, such as a post-it note while tanglefoot is (archaic|colloquial) low-quality whiskey, especially home-brewed.

As an adjective sticky

is able or likely to stick.

As a verb sticky

is (internet|bulletin boards) to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.

sticky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • 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.

    • tanglefoot

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic, colloquial) low-quality whiskey, especially home-brewed.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1891, author=Charles King, title=Starlight Ranch, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=They never seemed to want anything, even at the sutler's store, though the Lord knows there wasn't much there they could want except tanglefoot and tobacco. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1906, author=Charles King, title=Tonio, Son of the Sierras, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But Dooley's Irish blood was up, five fingers of tanglefoot tingling in each fist and bubbling in his brain. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1917, author=Various, title=Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=In the following year blight appeared again, but at another point, and after cutting it out I put on tanglefoot , simply because I happened to have some with me when passing the tree. }}
  • a sticky substance put at the base of trees or other plants to trap insects and prevent them from climbing up.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1900, author=Charles E. Flandrau, title=The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Instruments called "hopperdozers" were invented, which had receptacles filled with hot tar, and were driven over the ground to catch them as flies are caught with tanglefoot paper, and many millions of them were destroyed in this way, but it was about as effectual as fighting a Northwestern blizzard with a lady's fan, and they were all abandoned as useless and powerless to cope with the scourge. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1916, author=Various, title=Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The Entomologist has every reason to be thankful that, early last spring, he laid in a supply of arsenate of lead, Black Leaf No. 40, commercial lime-sulphur, tree tanglefoot , tobacco dust, also providing himself with an abundance of air-slaked lime and a spraying outfit suitable for use in a small experiment garden and orchard at Lake Minnetonka. }}
  • *{{quote-journal, 1998, date=October 30, David A. Holway et al., Loss of Intraspecific Aggression in the Success of a Widespread Invasive Social Insect, Science citation
    • , passage=We reared experimental colonies in plastic nest containers (30 cm by 14 cm by 8 cm) lined with fluon and tanglefoot to prevent ants from escaping. }}