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Stuck vs Stationary - What's the difference?

stuck | stationary |

As nouns the difference between stuck and stationary

is that stuck is one, piece, article (of a ware; often not translated in engish) while stationary is one who, or that which, is stationary, such as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.

As an adjective stationary is

not moving.

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)

    Anagrams

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    stationary

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia stationary) (en adjective)
  • Not moving.
    • For a few moments, the train remained stationary , before lurching forward along the track.
  • incapable of being moved
  • unchanging

    • Synonyms

    * (not moving) fixed, immobile, motionless, still, stock-still, unmoving * (incapable of being moved) immobile, unmoveable * (unchanging) changeless, constant, immutable, unchanging

    Antonyms

    * (not moving) in motion, moving, on the move * (incapable of being moved) mobile, moveable * (unchanging) changing, mutable, variable

    Noun

    (stationaries)
  • One who, or that which, is stationary, such as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.
    • (Holland)

    • See also

    * stationary point