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sticking out — adjective extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary the jutting limb of a tree massive projected buttresses his protruding ribs a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck • Syn: ↑jutting, ↑projected, ↑projecting, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
sticking — adjective extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary (Freq. 2) the jutting limb of a tree massive projected buttresses his protruding ribs a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck • Syn: ↑jutting, ↑projected, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
out — 1 /aUt/ adverb, adjective (adv only after verb, adj not before noun) 1 NOT INSIDE STH from the inside of something: She opened the envelope and took the letter out. (+ of): The diary must have fallen out of her pocket. | Someone has torn the last … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
Sticking — may refer to:* Sticking coefficient, a surface physics concept * Sticking knife, an agricultural tool used for bleeding out livestock in home butcheringee also* Stick * Stuck (disambiguation) … Wikipedia
Out for a Kill — DVD cover to Out for a Kill Directed by Michael Oblowitz Written by Danny Lerner, Dennis Dimster … Wikipedia
Sticking knife — A sticking knife is primarily an agricultural tool. Sticking knives resemble daggers in shape and function, but are made for the utilitarian purpose of sticking or bleeding out and livestock in home butchering. In some cases the animal would die… … Wikipedia
out on a limb — 1 the portrayal of Scotland as being out on a limb: ISOLATED, segregated, set apart, separate, cut off, solitary. 2 the government would not go out on a limb: IN A PRECARIOUS POSITION, vulnerable; informal sticking one s neck o … Useful english dictionary
Sticking — Stick Stick, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stuck}(Obs. {Sticked}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sticking}.] [OE. stikien, v.t. & i., combined with steken, whence E. stuck), AS. stician, v.t. & i., and (assumed) stecan, v.t.; akin to OFries. steka, OS. stekan, OHG.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
stick out — phrasal verb Word forms stick out : present tense I/you/we/they stick out he/she/it sticks out present participle sticking out past tense stuck out past participle stuck out 1) [intransitive] to continue further than the end of a surface or the… … English dictionary
stick out for — To insist upon • • • Main Entry: ↑stick * * * ˌstick ˈout for [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they stick out for he/she/it sticks out … Useful english dictionary
