bear vs stick

bear

verb
  • To endure or withstand (hardship, scrutiny, etc.); to tolerate; to be patient (with). 

  • To carry upon one's person, especially visibly; to be equipped with. 

  • To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in. 

  • To wear. 

  • To carry (offspring in the womb), to be pregnant (with). 

  • To have or display (a mark or other feature). 

  • To display (a particular heraldic device) on a shield or coat of arms; to be entitled to wear or use (a heraldic device) as a coat of arms. 

  • To present or exhibit (a particular outward appearance); to have (a certain look). 

  • To have (a name, title, or designation). 

  • To possess or enjoy (recognition, renown, a reputation, etc.); to have (a particular price, value, or worth). 

  • To have (interest or a specified rate of interest) stipulated in its terms. 

  • To have (an appendage, organ, etc.) as part of the body; (of a part of the body) to have (an appendage). 

  • To carry or hold in the mind; to experience, entertain, harbour (an idea, feeling, or emotion). 

  • To feel and show (respect, reverence, loyalty, etc.) to, towards, or unto a person or thing. 

  • To possess inherently (a quality, attribute, power, or capacity); to have and display as an essential characteristic. 

  • To have (a relation, correspondence, etc.) to something else. 

  • To give (written or oral testimony or evidence); (figurative) to provide or constitute (evidence or proof), give witness. 

  • To have (a certain meaning, intent, or effect). 

  • To behave or conduct (oneself). 

  • To possess and use, to exercise (power or influence); to hold (an office, rank, or position). 

  • To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. 

  • To support or sustain; to hold up. 

  • To admit or be capable of (a meaning); to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change. 

  • To carry on, or maintain; to have. 

  • To push, thrust, press. 

  • To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant. 

  • To give birth to (someone or something) (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object). 

  • To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.). 

  • To warrant, justify the need for. 

  • To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops. 

  • To afford, to be something to someone, to supply with something. 

  • Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target. 

  • To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere). 

adj
  • Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices will fall. 

noun
  • The meat of this animal. 

  • A state policeman (short for Smokey Bear). 

  • A portable punching machine. 

  • An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices. 

  • A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck. 

  • A large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous), related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of the family Ursidae. 

  • Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore. 

  • The fifteenth Lenormand card. 

  • A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person. 

  • A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual. 

stick

verb
  • To tolerate, to endure, to stick with. 

  • To attach with glue or as if by gluing. 

  • To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale. 

  • To press (something with a sharp point) into something else. 

  • To perform (a landing) perfectly. 

  • To have sexual intercourse with. 

  • To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint. 

  • To stab. 

  • To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck. 

  • To become or remain attached; to adhere. 

  • To persist. 

  • Of snow, to remain frozen on landing. 

  • To propagate plants by cuttings. 

  • To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand. 

  • To jam; to stop moving. 

  • To furnish or set with sticks. 

  • To remain loyal; to remain firm. 

  • To place, set down (quickly or carelessly). 

noun
  • A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard). 

  • A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission. 

  • A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette). 

  • A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum. 

  • The clarinet. 

  • Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity. 

  • Vigorous driving of a car; gas. 

  • General hitting ability. 

  • A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden). 

  • The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint. 

  • A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse. 

  • The short whip carried by a jockey. 

  • A timber board, especially a two by four (inches). 

  • A handgun. 

  • The game of pool, or an individual pool game. 

  • A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard. 

  • Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions. 

  • The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it. 

  • Corporal punishment; beatings. 

  • The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers. 

  • Use of the stick to control the aircraft. 

  • A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard. 

  • The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.) 

  • The traction of tires on the road surface. 

  • The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick. 

  • A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch. 

  • A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab. 

  • The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc. 

  • A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking. 

  • Criticism or ridicule. 

  • A memory stick. 

  • A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward. Compare carrot.) 

  • A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards. 

  • The long-range driving ability of a golf club. 

  • Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance. 

  • The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole. 

  • A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size. 

  • A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick. 

  • The potential hitting power of a specific bat. 

adj
  • Likely to stick; sticking, sticky. 

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