To place-kick (a goal).
To arrange for or to make (a bet).
To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
To earn a given spot in a competition.
To rank at (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
To establish a call (connection by telephone or similar).
To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.
An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
A state of mind.
The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
An area of the body, especially the skin.
An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
The position of a contestant in a competition.
A location or position in space.
Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
A role or purpose; a station.
A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.
The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
The position as a member of a sports team.
Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
Any area of the earth: a region.
To stab.
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 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 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).
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.
Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.