Stuck vs Beached - What's the difference?
stuck | beached | Related terms |
(stick) (which in the past was sticked )
Trapped and unable to move.
Unable to progress.
(obsolete) A thrust.
* 1599 , , IV. vii. 160:
Having a beach.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
(beach)
Run or brought ashore
Stranded and helpless, especially on a beach
Stuck is a related term of beached.
As a noun stuck
is one, piece, article (of a ware; often not translated in engish).As an adjective beached is
having a beach or beached can be run or brought ashore.As a verb beached is
(beach).stuck
English
Etymology 1
Verb
Adjective
(en adjective)- Sue tried to squeeze through the window, but got stuck .
- Can you shift this gate? I think it's stuck .
- ''I'm stuck on this question in the test.
Derived terms
* stuck onEtymology 2
Compare stoccado.Noun
(en noun)- If he by chance escape your venomed stuck, / Our purpose may hold there.
Anagrams
*beached
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(en adjective)- The beached verge of the salt flood.
Etymology 2
See (beach) (verb)Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- It is here, next to the beached ship of Odysseus, that the Achaeans of the Iliad hold their assemblies and perform their sacrifices.
- a beached whale