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Stranded vs Stuck - What's the difference?

stranded | stuck |

As verbs the difference between stranded and stuck

is that stranded is past tense of strand while stuck is past tense of stick (which in the past was sticked.

As adjectives the difference between stranded and stuck

is that stranded is abandoned or marooned while stuck is trapped and unable to move.

As a noun stuck is

a thrust.

stranded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (strand)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • (of a person) abandoned or marooned.
  • (nautical, of a vessel) Run aground on a shore or reef.
  • (of a piece of wire) Made by combining or bundling thinner wires.
  • expenses or costs which have become unrecoverable or difficult to recover.
  • * With utility deregulation, undepreciated equipment which is now redundant may have to be allocated as stranded costs.

    • References

    * FM 55-501 Marine Crewman’s Handbook

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    stuck

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

  • (stick) (which in the past was sticked )

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Trapped and unable to move.
    • Sue tried to squeeze through the window, but got stuck .
    Can you shift this gate? I think it's stuck .
  • Unable to progress.
    • ''I'm stuck on this question in the test.
    Derived terms
    * stuck on

    Etymology 2

    Compare stoccado.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A thrust.
  • * 1599 , , IV. vii. 160:
    • If he by chance escape your venomed stuck, / Our purpose may hold there.
    (Webster 1913)

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