2 an area in the countryside that is far from a town or city: --
3 to cause something to become fixed, for example with glue or another similar substance: --
4 to put something somewhere, especially in a not very careful way: --
5 to push a pointed object into or through something, or (of a pointed object) to be pushed into or through something and stay there: --
The third category is at first sight more random - wooden sticks, walls, pots, ingots, spindlewhorls.
Several carried sticks, but they were otherwise unarmed, and the state representative says nothing about actually being touched by anyone.
Figure 10 shows a sequence of experimental stick diagrams when the biped descending stairs.
Analogously : we can pour out our love or attention on just any old object, but it won't necessarily stick, let alone mix with it.
The aggregates are formed by the release of the adhesive post-acetabular gland secretion which causes the cercariae to stick together.
Life adapted to an atmosphere is stuck on the planet where it started.
If one decides to stick, strictly, to the established principles of medical ethics, one possible position is to regard medicine as a pacifist profession.
A stiff estimation of the parameters assists the control system to avoid the stick-slip phenomenon.