What is the meaning of sticking?

verb

• Put, fix, force, or implant.
  • usage: "lodge a bullet in the table"; "stick your thumb in the crack"
  • synonyms: lodge, wedge, stick, deposit
• Stay put (in a certain place. )
  • usage: "We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati"; "Stay put in the corner here"; "Stick around and you will learn something"
  • synonyms: stay, stick, stick around, stay put
• Stick to firmly.
  • usage: "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall"
  • synonyms: adhere, hold fast, bond, bind, stick, stick to
• Be or become fixed.
  • usage: "The door sticks-we will have to plane it"
  • synonyms: stick
• Endure.
  • usage: "The label stuck to her for the rest of her life"
  • synonyms: stick
• Be a devoted follower or supporter.
  • usage: "The residents of this village adhered to Catholicism"; "She sticks to her principles"
  • synonyms: adhere, stick
• Be loyal to.
  • usage: "She stood by her husband in times of trouble"; "The friends stuck together through the war"
  • synonyms: stand by, stick by, stick, adhere
• Cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface.
  • usage: "stick some feathers in the turkey before you serve it"
  • synonyms: stick
• Fasten with an adhesive material like glue.
  • usage: "stick the poster onto the wall"
  • synonyms: stick
• Fasten with or as with pins or nails.
  • usage: "stick the photo onto the corkboard"
  • synonyms: stick
• Fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something.
  • usage: "stick the corner of the sheet under the mattress"
  • synonyms: stick
• Pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument.
  • usage: "he stuck the cloth with the needle"
  • synonyms: stick
• Pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed.
  • usage: "He stuck the needle into his finger"
  • synonyms: stick
• Come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation.
  • usage: "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere"
  • synonyms: cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere
• Saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous.
  • usage: "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill"
  • synonyms: stick, sting
• Be a mystery or bewildering to.
  • usage: "This beats me"; "Got me-I don't know the answer"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
  • synonyms: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound

adjective

• Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary.
  • usage: "the jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses"; "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck"
  • synonyms: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking out