Stick

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Image:Stick.agr.jpg In its most basic, common form, a stick is a long, slender piece of wood, usually a branch from a tree, with no leaves attached.

Sticks are notably used, often in a more refined state (e.g. smoothened, polished, varnished or painted), as a:

• disciplinary implement, such as a rod, cane, or hickory stick
• indicator, such as a pointing stick
• formal attribute, such as a swagger stick;
• weapon, such as a club or staff
• marking medium, a tally stick

By analogy and metonymy, the term applies to:

• any long object of similar shape, e.g. a stick of dynamite; often specified by its use, such as:
  • fire stick
  • joy stick (game control)
  • prayer stick
  • in various ball - (e.g. polo stick) and other sports, e.g. hockey stick. Also a colloquial term for the goalposts in various sports.
• an ancient unit of length (2 inch ≈ 5 cm), cfr. in yard(stick)
• certain functions are named after a ceremonial atttribute, such as silver stick and gold stick

Less commonly, stick may refer to: Template:Wiktionarypar

• memory stick
• Stick shift transmission
• a group of 12 paratroopers
• a clapstick, a musical instrument that traditionally accompanies the didgeridoo
• a Led Zeppelin album (see Led Zeppelin IV)
• the Chapman Stick is a musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s
• a character in Marvel Comics, predominantly Daredevil
• a type of Victorian architecture also sometimes referred to as Stick-Eastlake
• a movie featuring Burt Reynolds and music by Anne Murray
• Australian euphemism for approximately one metric gram of marijuana, worth twenty dollars
• the plural sticks is slang for (especially woody) rural terrain
• a scroll (rolled around a stick), e.g., the Stick of Joseph from Ezekiel 37:16
• a Stick insect
• Nickname for former baseball infielder and manager Gene Michael

The verb 'to stick' (to prick or to attach to something, like glue does) is cognate.

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