medial vs sticky

medial

noun
  • One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word. 

  • Any of various things that occur in the middle. 

adj
  • Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it. 

  • Pertaining to the inside; closer to the median plane of the body or the midline of an organ. 

  • (of a speech sound) In the middle of a word. 

  • Closer to the addressee. 

  • Of or pertaining to a mean or average. 

  • Pertaining to the middle layer of a blood vessel, to its tunica media. 

  • (of a consonant) Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue. 

sticky

noun
  • A sticky note, such as a post-it note. 

  • A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view. 

  • A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper. 

  • A sweet dessert wine. 

adj
  • Tending to stay the same; resistant to change. 

  • Of weather, hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating. 

  • Resembling or characteristic of a stick. 

  • Able or likely to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance. 

  • Persistent. 

  • Potentially difficult to escape from. 

  • Appearing on all virtual desktops. 

  • Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view. 

  • Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving. 

verb
  • to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view. 

How often have the words medial and sticky occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )