"stick by" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sticks by",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sticking by",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stuck by",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stuck by",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stick<,,stuck> by"
      },
      "expansion": "stick by (third-person singular simple present sticks by, present participle sticking by, simple past and past participle stuck by)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (by)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Larry Schats, Walking with the Word: Daily Ventures Into 15 Books of the Bible, page 12",
          "text": "To be loyal means to stick by someone and to prove yourself dependable and reliable. This is what Caleb does, and for that he is rewarded, despite his age of eighty-five.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to follow or adhere to somebody or something, to remain loyal and unswerving in one's attitude towards somebody or something"
      ],
      "id": "en-stick_by-en-verb-KeXHaRVr",
      "links": [
        [
          "follow",
          "follow"
        ],
        [
          "adhere",
          "adhere"
        ],
        [
          "unswerving",
          "unswerving"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to follow or adhere to somebody or something, to remain loyal and unswerving in one's attitude towards somebody or something"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "stick with"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-stick by.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e1/En-au-stick_by.ogg/En-au-stick_by.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/En-au-stick_by.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stick by"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sticks by",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sticking by",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stuck by",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stuck by",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stick<,,stuck> by"
      },
      "expansion": "stick by (third-person singular simple present sticks by, present participle sticking by, simple past and past participle stuck by)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (by)",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Larry Schats, Walking with the Word: Daily Ventures Into 15 Books of the Bible, page 12",
          "text": "To be loyal means to stick by someone and to prove yourself dependable and reliable. This is what Caleb does, and for that he is rewarded, despite his age of eighty-five.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to follow or adhere to somebody or something, to remain loyal and unswerving in one's attitude towards somebody or something"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "follow",
          "follow"
        ],
        [
          "adhere",
          "adhere"
        ],
        [
          "unswerving",
          "unswerving"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to follow or adhere to somebody or something, to remain loyal and unswerving in one's attitude towards somebody or something"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-stick by.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e1/En-au-stick_by.ogg/En-au-stick_by.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/En-au-stick_by.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "stick with"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stick by"
}