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How to pronounce “sticky”
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Pronunciation guide for sticky
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of sticky with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- J. Kenji López-Alt
Otherwise, the oil can reduce and turn sticky.
- Definition summary
- Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce sticky
J. Kenji López-Alt
Otherwise, the oil can reduce and turn sticky.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “sticky”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
- Difficult, awkward.
- Of a death: unpleasant, grisly.
- Of weather: hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
- Mawkish, sentimental.
- (finance) Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.
- (computing, informal, of a setting) Persistent.
- (computing, of a window) Appearing on all virtual desktops.
- (Internet, of threads on a bulletin board) Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
- (Internet, of a website) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.
- (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a stick.
- [Noun]
- A sticky note, such as a post-it note.
- (Internet) A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
- (manufacturing) A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
- (Australia, colloquial) A sweet dessert wine.
- (slang) Sticky-icky; marijuana, especially the sticky, resin-covered buds.
- (obsolete, slang, uncountable) Wax.
- [Verb]
- (Internet, bulletin boards, transitive) to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
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