"stick out" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-stick out.ogg Forms: sticks out [present, singular, third-person], sticking out [participle, present], stuck out [participle, past], stuck out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|stick<,,stuck> out}} stick out (third-person singular simple present sticks out, present participle sticking out, simple past and past participle stuck out)
  1. (transitive) To protrude. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-stick_out-en-verb-53~6sZGd
  2. (intransitive) To protrude; to extend beyond. Tags: intransitive Translations (to protrude; to extend beyond): sobresortir (Catalan), 突出 (túchū) (Chinese Mandarin), 凸出 (tūchū) (Chinese Mandarin), vyčnívat [imperfective] (Czech), trčet [imperfective] (Czech), čnít [imperfective] (Czech), elstari (Esperanto), pistää ulos (Finnish), sojottaa (Finnish), näyttää (Finnish), näkyä (Finnish), dépasser (French), abstehen (German), herausragen (German), herausstechen (German), herausstehen (German), hervorstechen (German), hervorstehen (German), sporgere (Italian), 突き出る (tsukideru) (alt: つきでる) (Japanese), prōmineō (Latin), exsero (Latin), whererei (Maori), tōhira (Maori), sobressair (Portuguese), торча́ть (torčátʹ) [imperfective, intransitive] (Russian), высо́вываться (vysóvyvatʹsja) [imperfective, intransitive] (Russian), высо́вывать (vysóvyvatʹ) [imperfective, transitive] (Russian), sobresalir (Spanish), ventanear (note: of a window) (Spanish), стирча́ти (styrčáty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), випина́тися (vypynátysja) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), вистава́ти (vystaváty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-stick_out-en-verb-c~726mKK Disambiguation of 'to protrude; to extend beyond': 26 72 1 2
  3. (idiomatic, intransitive) To be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Synonyms: stand out#Verb, stand out Translations (to be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive): 顯著 (Chinese Mandarin), 显著 (xiǎnzhù) (Chinese Mandarin), erottua (Finnish), se démarquer (French), sich auszeichnen (German), sich abheben (German), sobresalir (Spanish), dayatmak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-stick_out-en-verb-lwkaNSdt Disambiguation of 'to be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive': 0 0 99 0
  4. To persist until the end; stick it out. Synonyms: persist Derived forms: stick out a mile, stick out like a sore thumb, stick out like dog's balls, stickout [noun], sticky-out, sticky-outy, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down Related terms: proud
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Inflected forms

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        "(transitive) To protrude."
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          "text": "His tongue was sticking out.",
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          "text": "Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses, while the Rabbit stared hard to see which side the clockwork stuck out, for he knew that people who jump generally have something to wind them up. But he couldn't see it. They were evidently a new kind of rabbit altogether.",
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          "text": "\"Your house did, anyway,\" replied the little old woman, with a laugh, \"and that is the same thing. See!\" she continued, pointing to the corner of the house. \"There are her two feet, still sticking out from under a block of wood.\"\nDorothy looked, and gave a little cry of fright. There, indeed, just under the corner of the great beam the house rested on, two feet were sticking out, shod in silver shoes with pointed toes.",
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        "(intransitive) To protrude; to extend beyond."
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          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
          "word": "elstari"
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          "_dis1": "26 72 1 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
          "word": "pistää ulos"
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          "_dis1": "26 72 1 2",
          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
          "word": "sojottaa"
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          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
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          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
          "word": "dépasser"
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          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
          "word": "abstehen"
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
          "word": "herausragen"
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          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
          "word": "herausstechen"
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          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
          "word": "hervorstechen"
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          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
          "word": "sporgere"
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          "alt": "つきでる",
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          "roman": "tsukideru",
          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
          "word": "突き出る"
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          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
          "word": "prōmineō"
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          "code": "la",
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          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
          "word": "exsero"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
          "word": "whererei"
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          "code": "mi",
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          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
          "word": "tōhira"
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          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
          "word": "sobressair"
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          "roman": "torčátʹ",
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          "roman": "vysóvyvatʹsja",
          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
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          "roman": "vysóvyvatʹ",
          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
          "word": "sobresalir"
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          "_dis1": "26 72 1 2",
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          "note": "of a window",
          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
          "word": "ventanear"
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          "roman": "styrčáty",
          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
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          "word": "стирча́ти"
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          "roman": "vypynátysja",
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          "word": "випина́тися"
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          "roman": "vystaváty",
          "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
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          "word": "вистава́ти"
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          "text": "The one red wall really sticks out among all the creamy ones.",
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        "To be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive."
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        "(idiomatic, intransitive) To be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive."
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          "word": "顯著"
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          "word": "显著"
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          "word": "se démarquer"
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          "sense": "to be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive",
          "word": "sich auszeichnen"
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          "word": "sich abheben"
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  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "stick out a mile"
    },
    {
      "word": "stick out like a sore thumb"
    },
    {
      "word": "stick out like dog's balls"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "stickout"
    },
    {
      "word": "sticky-out"
    },
    {
      "word": "sticky-outy"
    },
    {
      "word": "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sticks out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sticking out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stuck out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stuck out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stick<,,stuck> out"
      },
      "expansion": "stick out (third-person singular simple present sticks out, present participle sticking out, simple past and past participle stuck out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "proud"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He stuck out his tongue at me.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To protrude."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "protrude",
          "protrude"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To protrude."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "His tongue was sticking out.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "I can fit the pipe in my car, but one end will stick out from the back.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses, while the Rabbit stared hard to see which side the clockwork stuck out, for he knew that people who jump generally have something to wind them up. But he couldn't see it. They were evidently a new kind of rabbit altogether.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"Your house did, anyway,\" replied the little old woman, with a laugh, \"and that is the same thing. See!\" she continued, pointing to the corner of the house. \"There are her two feet, still sticking out from under a block of wood.\"\nDorothy looked, and gave a little cry of fright. There, indeed, just under the corner of the great beam the house rested on, two feet were sticking out, shod in silver shoes with pointed toes.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To protrude; to extend beyond."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "protrude",
          "protrude"
        ],
        [
          "extend",
          "extend"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To protrude; to extend beyond."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The one red wall really sticks out among all the creamy ones.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prominent",
          "prominent"
        ],
        [
          "noticeable",
          "noticeable"
        ],
        [
          "obtrusive",
          "obtrusive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, intransitive) To be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "stand out#Verb"
        },
        {
          "word": "stand out"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To persist until the end; stick it out."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "persist",
          "persist"
        ],
        [
          "stick it out",
          "stick it out"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "persist"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-stick out.ogg",
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "sobresortir"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "túchū",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "突出"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tūchū",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "凸出"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "vyčnívat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "trčet"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "čnít"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "elstari"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "pistää ulos"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "sojottaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "näyttää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "näkyä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "dépasser"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "abstehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "herausragen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "herausstechen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "herausstehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "hervorstechen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "hervorstehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "sporgere"
    },
    {
      "alt": "つきでる",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tsukideru",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "突き出る"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "prōmineō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "exsero"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "whererei"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "tōhira"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "sobressair"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "torčátʹ",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "word": "торча́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vysóvyvatʹsja",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "word": "высо́вываться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vysóvyvatʹ",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "word": "высо́вывать"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "sobresalir"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "note": "of a window",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "word": "ventanear"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "styrčáty",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "стирча́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vypynátysja",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "випина́тися"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vystaváty",
      "sense": "to protrude; to extend beyond",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "вистава́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive",
      "word": "顯著"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiǎnzhù",
      "sense": "to be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive",
      "word": "显著"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive",
      "word": "erottua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive",
      "word": "se démarquer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive",
      "word": "sich auszeichnen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive",
      "word": "sich abheben"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive",
      "word": "sobresalir"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive",
      "word": "dayatmak"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stick out"
}

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