What's the difference between stuck and unstick?

Stuck


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Stick
  • () imp. & p. p. of Stick.
  • (n.) A thrust.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Would the Greek crisis have been avoided if Europe had stuck to fiscal discipline?
  • (2) "He [Copernicus] stuck to his guns when he came under fire for it, and he was right."
  • (3) Labour is in danger of being left behind, of becoming stuck in an anti-pluralist rut.
  • (4) Jim Ewing tweeted a picture of the station concourse jammed with travellers , adding that he had been stuck in a corridor for more than an hour.
  • (5) It’s a damp squib, a bit of a nothing result,” a leading energy analyst said of a report that is widely expected to endorse provisional findings released in March , and recommend price controls on prepayment meters and setting up a customer database to help rival suppliers target customers stuck on expensive default tariffs.
  • (6) There is also the issue of fair sentencing – if a person has a violent fight in a bar and is sentenced to an IPP with a two year tariff, and then finds himself stuck in the system six years later he has received a punishment three times more severe than the crime he committed in the eyes of the court.
  • (7) Instead, we're likely to be stuck with more muddling-through.
  • (8) Thousands of desperate Syrians remain stuck inside Syria on the Turkish and Iraqi borders amidst mounting insecurity and with winter fast approaching.
  • (9) … I say get stuck in, negotiate hard, fight for Britain.
  • (10) A chemist working at Iran's main uranium enrichment plant was killed on Wednesday when attackers on a motorbike stuck a magnetic bomb to his car.
  • (11) It was a speech that might well have stuck in the gullet of any Greeks or Spaniards who happened to be watching.
  • (12) Many had plastic nodules stuck to their skull, to allow the nurses to attach them to a drip.
  • (13) A few seconds later there was a bang from the side of the Peugeot, as a small bomb stuck on to the window detonated, killing one of the men inside.
  • (14) The midfielder's alarming loss of concentration and concession of possession precipitated Gabriel Agbonlahor's winner, crushing already cautious Wearside optimism and ensuring Gus Poyet's side remain stuck to the bottom of the table.
  • (15) Refugees still stuck on Manus Island need to be allowed to move freely, get jobs and be productive members of PNG society – that is, to get on with their lives.
  • (16) The thermode is stuck to the shaved skin on the back of the rat, allowing heat pulses up to 51 degrees C to be applied.
  • (17) But there, stuck behind a glass case in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and having already failed to take off from the shelves of department stores in the United States, Richard Joseph saw what was to become the cornerstone of a new family venture – a chopping board.
  • (18) In a speech last year, the shadow chancellor, George Osborne, said government should focus on "raising the incomes and the aspirations and the opportunities for the millions of people who are stuck on low incomes".
  • (19) But because all 40 stations are stuck with the fixed costs of separate premises and transmission technology, the savings must be found purely from staff and programming budgets, which must take hits of around 20% to compensate.
  • (20) You made sure that Mairead "stuck to the story", checking with her at every opportunity that she wasn't going to stray, as you put it.

Unstick


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To release, as one thing stuck to another.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The manoeuvre consists after determination of the position that elicits the vertigo to move the whole head and body together of the patient to a 180 degree opposite position in which the addition to the endolymph flow forces and weight forces of the material will unstick it from the cupula.
  • (2) After that soak off the cover slip with alcohol, post-fix the squashed preparation together with cellophane in alcohol for 5-10 min, unstick the cellophane, pass the preparation through alcohol once again and dry it.
  • (3) Secondly when the superficial tension forces are too high the heavy material unstick from the cupula and it goes back to its normal position.
  • (4) "We are determined as a coalition government to unstick that market, to get the market moving."
  • (5) David Cameron and Nick Clegg have announced the introduction of taxpayer-backed 95% mortgages as part of a package of measures to help "unstick" the housing market and make the "dream of home ownership" a reality for more people.
  • (6) And its bloody unsticking in the recent period has come from a convergence of separate but connected issues.

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