(n.) One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Take that into consideration and it's actually rather refreshing that a 22-year-old from the suburbs of Detroit will pick up her chopsticks and at least try the shar pei .
(2) A chopstick or something similar will keep the bag from resting on the leaves, which can cause scorching.
(3) The case of a 53-year-old man who attempted suicide by introducing a wooden chopstick through his nostril into his brain is reported.
(4) 3 Then the whole table joins in; everyone dips in with their chopsticks and tosses the ingredients together, lifting them high and crying "lo hei" – Cantonese for "tossing luck".
(5) After about 2 minutes, turn the fish and poach for another 2 minutes, by which time it should be just tender to the bone: poke a chopstick into the thickest part of the flesh to make sure (it should come away easily from the backbone).
(6) Case 2: This 6-year-old female could not grasp chopsticks and had neck pain 10 minutes after being pulled up by the right arm by her father.
(7) We are talking in Faulkes's lab at Queen Mary University in the East End of London, surrounded on all sides by his home-made rat-run of Perspex tubing in which 70 or so naked mole rats – each between 10cm and 20cm long – are scurrying, climbing over and under one another, backing up and beetling forward, worrying at anything in their path with their protruding incisors, teeth that they can move independently like chopsticks, all to apparently urgent purpose.
(8) They blame weak law enforcement in Africa and growing demand for ivory products like chopsticks and ivory jewellery mostly in China, Thailand and other Asian countries.
(9) For convenience, Gt was initially measured in culture dishes using a commercially available "chopstick" electrode system.
(10) aliettedb via GuardianWitness Serves 4 3 tbsp nuoc màu (caramel sauce) 400g pork belly, skin on 400g pork shoulder 2 tbsp nuoc mam (fish sauce), or to taste 1 onion, finely chopped 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped ½-1 tsp salt 1 tsp ground pepper 330ml coconut water 4 eggs Sugar, to taste Rice and pickled vegetables, to serve 1 Cut the pork into small, chopstick-sized chunks.
(11) She had great difficulty in buttoning, unbuttoning, using chopsticks and writing, because she was no longer able to feel her fingers in space.
(12) The dishes we had at the Farming Family Happiness were meant to be shared, and as the pretty woman with the broad face brought them to the table, the man across from me beamed and reached for his chopsticks.
(13) The discrepancy was due to a nonuniform current field produced by the chopstick electrodes.
(14) The patient had contact with his dog such as he kissed it frequently, gave it food with his chopsticks et al.. From the mouth of the people who kiss one's dog, we detected Pasteurella of the same character of bacteria as from the mouth of the dog.
(15) "I don't think of myself as a musical actress… but I think the good thing about Roxie Hart is that she's a wannabe, so even if your leg doesn't come up to here" – she signals with her chopsticks to a point halfway up the wall – "it's OK." Now that Borgen has come to an end, she's looking forward to getting back on stage.
(16) I took five years of piano and I still can't play Chopsticks – I just didn't have the discipline.
(17) The passage which was removed in the Chinese translation read: "While on camera during the banquet honouring Gorbachev, Deng, hands shaking, let a piece of dumpling drop from his chopsticks."
(18) And then it happens again, on screen this time, to a man whose all four limbs have been skewered to his chair with steel chopsticks.
(19) Chinese diners who enjoy bear bile, tiger bones and pangolin meat now have a new reason to lay down their chopsticks.
(20) We all need people to purchase things they don’t need; to buy things that, while not necessary, are fun – like chocolate, toys, booze, DVDs – and then, to keep the economy growing, also to buy things that vaguely seem like they might be fun if you don’t think that hard about it, like Darth Vader showerheads and lightsaber chopsticks.
Stick
Definition:
(v. t.) A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.
(v. t.) Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick.
(v. t.) Anything shaped like a stick; as, a stick of wax.
(v. t.) A derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or stupid; as, an odd stick; a poor stick.
(v. t.) A composing stick. See under Composing. It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is used.
(v. t.) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
(n.) To penetrate with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to stab; hence, to kill by piercing; as, to stick a beast.
(n.) To cause to penetrate; to push, thrust, or drive, so as to pierce; as, to stick a needle into one's finger.
(n.) To fasten, attach, or cause to remain, by thrusting in; hence, also, to adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing; as, to stick a pin on the sleeve.
(n.) To set; to fix in; as, to stick card teeth.
(n.) To set with something pointed; as, to stick cards.
(n.) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale; as, to stick an apple on a fork.
(n.) To attach by causing to adhere to the surface; as, to stick on a plaster; to stick a stamp on an envelope; also, to attach in any manner.
(n.) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick; as, to stick type.
(n.) To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such moldings are said to be stuck.
(n.) To cause to stick; to bring to a stand; to pose; to puzzle; as, to stick one with a hard problem.
(n.) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
(v. i.) To adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall.
(v. i.) To remain where placed; to be fixed; to hold fast to any position so as to be moved with difficulty; to cling; to abide; to cleave; to be united closely.
(v. i.) To be prevented from going farther; to stop by reason of some obstacle; to be stayed.
(v. i.) To be embarrassed or puzzled; to hesitate; to be deterred, as by scruples; to scruple; -- often with at.
(v. i.) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jonker kept sticking his nose in the corner and not really cooperating, but then came a moment of stillness.
(2) The sticking probability decreased as the cell receptor concentration was lowered from approximately 10(4) to 10(2) receptors per 4-microns diam liposome and as the shear rate increased from 5 to 22 s-1.
(3) One of the big sticking points is cash – with rich countries so far failing to live up to promise to mobilise $100bn a year by 2020 for climate finance .
(4) Pictures of the Social Network star emerged on Twitter and Instagram on Wednesday, showing Garfield in full costume for Punchdrunk's current show, The Drowned Man , chewing seductively on a stick of straw .
(5) These preliminary results suggest that finger stick blood samples, collected on filter paper, could be used for FTA-ABS testing of remote rural populations--such as in areas where yaws is endemic.
(6) We arrange the meetings on the North Korea-China border and give the USB sticks which then will move into North Korea.” North Korea to face the music after cancelling Moranbong shows Read more Stratton says she also hopes it will change the way some Americans think of North Koreans.
(7) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
(8) The most common fracture type was a green-stick fracture (51.6%), and 18.5% of fractures were epiphyseal injuries.
(9) "Naysmith underscored that Scotland received 'nothing' for releasing Megrahi, while the UK government has gotten everything – a chance to stick it to Salmond's SNP and good relations with Libya."
(10) Here's Trintignant, twirling his walking stick in one hand and gesticulating with the other; taking issue with this and that.
(11) Don’t give me stick when I change the side at Arsenal.
(12) We’d been working in Atlantic City, four in the afternoon to four in the morning, six sets, opening for everybody that came through – the Emotions, Bill Withers, the Pointer Sisters – and they were all really encouraging: “You girls are really good, you should stick with it.” That kind of solidified our desire to continue, but our record company, Atlantic, didn’t quite know what to do with us.
(13) Defenders will now stick with the attacking player more naturally whereas before you’d have to press A to contain - we don’t particularly want that all the time.
(14) Archer said he was sticking to his view that house prices would see "solid but limited increases" in 2013, but admitted "there is a growing possibility that … house prices could surprise on the upside over the second half of in 2013".
(15) If the ambition set out by the world’s heads of state in New York is ever to be achieved, the global tax system needs more than just a sticking plaster.
(16) The rise of the multi-car household is partly down to teenagers sticking around at home long into their twenties, said Direct Line.
(17) Nominees: Sticks and Stones, Maroon Productions for Channel 4 Charlie and Lola "I am not sleepy and I will not go to bed", Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Children's Breakthrough Award - Behind the Screen Jonathan Smith - Make Me Normal, Century Films for Channel 4 "The jury said that this year's winner had directed a moving and inspiring documentary which forced the audience to consider the impact of autism and Aspergers syndrome and how it can impact on the lives of those it affects."
(18) She has developed a strong reputation for making quick decisions and sticking by them, and colleagues like her.
(19) A case-control study, using age-matched neighbors as controls, showed that patients were significantly more likely to have lived in poorly constructed, wood-stick houses.
(20) We should strip our own national anthem back, and replace the lyrics with our own best-known meaningless word – “oi!” Unless of course Big Liz turns up, and then we can stick in those other words – but she’s not going to, is she?” Netherlands – Tinchy Stryder Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tinchy Stryder has had two UK No1 singles, Number 1 and Never Leave You.