To cause to adhere (one material with another).
To guarantee or secure a financial risk.
To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
To bail out by means of a bail bond.
To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).
To form a friendship or emotional connection.
To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
To put in a bonded warehouse; to secure (goods) until the associated duties are paid.
To form a chemical compound with.
Subject to the tenure called bondage.
In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free.
Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave.
An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie.
A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds.
A physical connection which binds, a band.
A peasant; churl.
A binding agreement, a covenant.
Moral or political duty or obligation.
A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond.
In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying, based on overlapping rows or layers to give strength.
A bail bond.
A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.
A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.
Any constraining or cementing force or material.
A mortgage.
To become or remain attached; to adhere.
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 tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
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).
Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.
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.