Definition of sticky in English:

sticky

adjectivestickier, stickiest ˈstɪkiˈstɪki

1Tending or designed to stick to things on contact.
黏的，黏性的；覆盖有黏性物质的
sticky cakes and pastries
黏糊糊的饼和糕点。
a sticky label
Example sentencesExamples
- Thanks to phenomenally sticky feet, certain spiders can carry 170 times their weight upside-down.
- In seawater, the expelled tubules lengthen considerably and become sticky upon contact with any object.
- Emma went into the kitchen, where sticky plates and bowls and a messy skillet waited.
- I no longer cared if something sticky and messy got in it - what use was there in worrying about my hair, when the rest of the world was being threatened?
- Jenn felt something sticky on her hand, and removed it.
- That means the town centre is soiled with around 200,000 sticky stains.
- The sticky boxes are designed to lure their prey with scents of chocolate and other foods.
- The patch is very sticky, and shouldn't fall off.
- Provide some bowls of water to drop sticky utensils in as you go.
- It was filthy and sticky and as he carefully picked it up to place it in the trash, he noticed some scribble on the back.
- The main room is so huge it kills atmosphere and the floor was dirty and sticky.
- The web isn't sticky, but slows prey down long enough for the spider to grab dinner and drag it to the den.
- Walker stretches double-sided, highly sticky carpet tape between garden stakes in front of the entrance to a burrow.
- They also sprayed some kind of substance on the equipment which made it sticky and unusable.
- That could be the solution to keeping Swindon's streets free from the sticky stains.
- Babbling brats would congregate near my truck, waving their miscounted sticky change in little grubby fists.
- The table is littered with sticky coffee cups and stickier buns.
- He kept his head down as he mopped, scrubbing at a sticky stain.
- Pierce the centre of the cake with a fork - it should come out sticky, but not with raw mixture attached to it.
- Eventually, however I inflated a passable bubble, which left me with a sticky chin, but restored my dignity.
Synonyms
adhesive, adherent, gummed
rare tenacious
1. 1.1 (of a substance) glutinous; viscous.
  （物质）黏性的；发黏的
  the dough should be moist but not sticky
  那面团应当湿润但不能发黏。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the last number of weeks a sticky coating has been painted on to the roof and the top of the walls.
  After rubbing them against the bumpy bark, I had covered them in a pungent sticky sap, designed to protect the trees from the tendency to rot in such a wet environment.
  Then, she proceeded in smearing the sticky pink glob all over his curly hair.
  I personally had a most unpleasant train trip just last week where someone had blatantly smeared sticky jam all over the handrails and back of seats.
  Once we had a food project and I made a sticky mess of a cake.
  The maidservant watched as a slow trickle of a thick sticky black substance began to run down the carved panels.
  His hand came in contact with the sticky remains of one Twinkie.
  Gently remove the sticky residue with warm water and a wash cloth.
  These vegetables are often pounded into a thick, sticky dough or paste.
  The bottom of my bags usually turn into a potpourri of sticky gum, tobacco, half eaten cough drops and pennies that are slimed in a foreign substance.
  And these are enzymes that make up a gluey, sticky substance, known as glucan, and the bacteria make this from sugar.
  The dough will be firm but moist, and a bit sticky to the touch.
  It looks a bit like a fire extinguisher and you spray it and this sticky foam goes all over you and then it hardens and then you're just kind of stuck to the floor.
  Be careful not to use an oily wood which will release sticky resin when hot.
  Now ants have this relationship with aphids where they looks after aphids and move them around and eat the sweet sticky substance aphids secrete onto plant leaves.
  Some of the sticky substance stuck on her shoe and she grimaced in disgust.
  I love a trip to the cinema except for the rather sticky residue on the floor.
  When an egg is laid it is covered by a sticky substance that glues the egg firmly to any surface on which it is laid, irrespective of whether it is an adult bug or a plant.
  Ideally the amount of honey used is regulated so that the finished processed licorice is only slightly sticky.
  Stir in the flour and salt, a sticky dough should form.
  Synonyms
  glutinous, viscous, viscid
  gluey, tacky, gummy, treacly, syrupy
  mucilaginous
  British claggy
  Scottish &amp Northern English clarty
  informal gooey, gloopy, cloggy, gungy, icky
  North American informal gloppy
  rare viscoid
2. 1.2 (of prices, interest rates, or wages) slow to change or react to change.
  （价格，利率，薪水）变化缓慢的；对变化反应缓慢的
  Example sentencesExamples
  New theories of unemployment give a reason that wages and prices would be sticky.
  Long-term rates have proven to be sticky.
  As with other manufactured products, bread prices tend to be sticky.
  Inflation helps the economy deal with sticky wages and prices.
  UK inflation is proving to be far stickier than Eurozone inflation.
  Wages are typically very sticky and slow to adjust and the job market in Hong Kong will stay very competitive.
  Such sticky prices in the presence of an increase in the money supply then result in increased real demand.
  In many parts of the southeast of England house sales are proving to be stubbornly sticky, even after sellers have made a 5 % or 10 % cut in the asking price to achieve a sale.
  The presence of nonmarket forces, such as regulations, sticky wages, or tradition, may weaken competition.
  The pace of house price increases has slowed markedly, and in many parts of the southeast of England house sales are proving to be stubbornly sticky.
  It is true that in the short run, wages seem to be sticky and we get results that are inconsistent with market clearing, notably bouts of high unemployment.
  The negative repercussions of such inadequate concurrent production are made worse if prices are sticky or do not adjust quickly.
  Labor is no longer a commodity with a sticky price.
  Retail gasoline prices tend to be stickier than wholesale ones.
  I would think that commercial real estate would tend to be somewhat more sensitive to interest rates and to economic conditions than residential real estate, where prices are probably stickier.
  What is far more likely to be the case is that one market will have "stickier" prices than the other.
  The second quarter showed just how sticky prices can be on the downward side.
  Why are food and energy prices so much stickier in the U. K. than elsewhere?
  Approximately 70 per cent of the company's costs are labour related and these are likely to be sticky in the short to medium term.
  Sticky prices in the face of positive movement in the economy points to some form of distortion.
2(of the weather) hot and humid; muggy.
（天气）湿热的；闷热的
it was an unusually hot and sticky summer
那是一个极其湿热的夏天。
Example sentencesExamples
- The sultry, sticky heat that usually hangs over central Japan in summertime might have been bothersome to many.
- The water lapped playfully closer and close to our toes and the cool sand embraced our bodies like a fresh sheet on a sticky summer night.
- Its so muggy and sticky and every time I breath in, the air feels disgustingly warm and damp.
- This mix, accompanied by a sticky heat, climate and geography completely separate from the rest of the USA, creates a romantic mystery for the whole state.
- Right after we came ashore, we felt the sticky, humid air of the land hit our faces.
- The nation's capital attracts every type of tourist in the sticky summer months.
- Summers at Valley Forge are miserably hot and sticky - not at all like the breezy cool of the Kenyan highlands.
- In an open-neck blue shirt, crisp denim jeans, brown suede shoes, and carrying a denim jacket, he is ideally dressed for the sticky weather.
- The Constitution of the United States was crafted over four hot, sticky months in the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia.
- Hot, sticky weather such as that we have been having for the last few days simply adds to stress, says Mrs Clarke - and makes it more likely that we will flare out of control.
- If the weather is sticky, it is humid and not particularly pleasant.
- Not only is this the worst month of the year for hot and sticky weather, but we've had a couple of weeks of absolute train chaos.
- The air was so humid and sticky that it made breathing difficult.
- Sitting in fringe theatres on sticky summer nights can be pretty purgatorial.
- The weather was very hot and sticky but the good news was no rain.
- They proved that once again with a virtually flawless set on this sticky late summer evening.
- The music is soulful, the weather is warm and sticky, and the women are beautiful.
- When it is sticky and sweaty, no one really cares about drinking wisely and well.
- History is the eventual arbiter for all that is argued in the sticky, sweaty months of summer.
- It's a great place to go in the summer when it gets very hot and sticky.
Synonyms
humid, muggy, close, sultry, sweltering, steamy, oppressive, airless, stifling, suffocating, sweaty, soupy, like a Turkish bath, like a sauna
1. 2.1 Damp with sweat.
  （由于出汗）潮湿的
  she felt hot and sticky and changed her clothes
  她感到又热又潮湿，因此换了衣服。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Perhaps it was a sensation crystallised by the potent mix of sun and alcohol, and sweat cooled onto a sticky back.
  Arven wiped his slimy hands, which were now beginning to get disgustingly sticky.
  His hair was wet with sweat, and his face was flush and sticky.
  They left the room and he pulled off the sticky, damp shirt.
  I couldn't help but notice how cool and dry Rick's hand felt, not moist and sticky.
  It is my heavily researched belief that high pressure has a horrible effect on people, they're sticky, they're clammy, their bile rises and they snap at each other.
  When they are sweating and get sticky, I just open up the harness zipper.
  She dropped her luggage to the ground and immediately peeled her sweater from her moist, sticky skin.
  Patients often feel cool, yet clammy or sticky to touch, and sometimes have dilated hand veins.
  Synonyms
  perspiring, sweating, clammy, glowing, moist, damp, slimy, soggy, dripping, drenched
3informal Involving problems; difficult or awkward.
〈非正式〉卷入麻烦的；困难的；难对付的
the relationship is going through a sticky patch
那种关系正在经历一段困难时期。
Example sentencesExamples
- The traffic is much lighter this morning, albeit still quite sticky by any normal standard.
- The worst came when we hit a little sticky patch in November.
- Junk bonds roared back into favour in the USA during the 1990s but the market has since hit a sticky patch.
- This is the latest in a growing number of sticky issues that threatens to delay final agreement on the document by its December deadline and push it over into the Irish presidency.
- Now she was stuck in a very sticky situation.
- The only sticky part is that when an invitation is sent very close to the event, then the recipient knows he was not on the original list, but most people roll with that.
- Shrinking the grain size in steps is essential because things get increasingly sticky as you head down the size scale.
- Time will come, one day, when you find yourself in a very sticky situation.
- This is a sticky issue because one person's advertisement is another person's junk mail.
- The problem of soccer gambling has become too sticky even for local police to tackle.
- Had Fletcher needed more fuel, the situation might have gotten a little sticky.
- He briefs us on the sticky subject of fakes and forgers, and offers sterling advice on how to care for a collection.
- Issues to be tackled will include the public or private ownership of infrastructure and the sticky question of over-regulation.
- There is, however, one sticky issue that keeps this arrangement from really reaching its true potential.
- Alas, as a woman with two lives, such situations soon become rather sticky.
- I had, as I said, gotten myself into a rather sticky situation.
- Things are getting pretty sticky in the NFL these days when it comes to the quarterback position.
- It is a reality that marriages go through sticky times.
- So, if things get really sticky, could Ford sell off some of its big assets?
- Don't expect too much and make sure you don't get into any sticky situations.
Synonyms
awkward, difficult, tricky, ticklish, problematic, delicate, touch-and-go, embarrassing, sensitive, uncomfortable
informal hairy
4(of a website or its content) attracting a long visit or repeat visits from users.
〈非正式〉（网站）人气旺的
make your site as sticky as possible to keep visitors there longer
more and more often, web designers focus on the need to add sticky features to their sites
Example sentencesExamples
- Websites are supposed to be sticky, they are supposed to change often enough that users are drawn back and, once there, discouraged from leaving.
- Horoscopes in particular must be the original sticky content, keeping your visitors coming back day after day or week after week.
- The site is lucid about the complexities of its business model - how its sticky content will produce a growing mass of daily page views.
- Running a successful website can be a fulfilling activity, and it's my job to take you step by step through the route to creating a gorgeous, fast, accessible and sticky site.
- Originally a way to stay above water by making their sites more sticky, developers now recognise the importance of social play in their community development and pour them into the design mix.
- The use of Flash technologies saves production time and makes the site more interactive and sticky.
- We believe that eventually every major consumer-oriented company will need interactive programming - sticky content - for their Web sites.
- The best thing about the site is that it provides an exceptionally sticky, single point of access for all things on the web concerning Ireland.
- Facebook and browser games are now a key element of many film and TV marketing campaigns - they're sticky, they're compelling and they give potential viewers ownership over stories and characters.
- Page views are a good indication of how sticky your website is.
- To make your website stickier you can add a few simple interactive applications like site polls, surveys, a guest book, and an event calendar.
- Traffic at the Survivor site spikes during that program, with the average viewer clicking around for a very sticky 30 minutes.
- The site is sticky, with about 20 percent of visitors staying for 20 minutes per day.
- Self-linking is one of the strategies to keep the users within a site, but there are other strategies to make sites sticky.
- By implementing these tools, you will end up adding value to your website while making your pages more sticky.
- By definition, search engine results aren't sticky: you're on your way somewhere else.
- Library websites are already about as sticky as sites like Amazon, with an average stay of almost ten minutes.
- We build a site that is local, compelling and sticky that can drive traffic.
- Controlling the content on the stickiest kids' site on earth is an increasingly sticky matter.
- Constantly changing both the copy and imagery on your site helps maintain the sticky factor, which helps to bring visitors back to your site time and again.
1. 4.1 (of a thread in an online forum) set to remain at the top of the other threads regardless of when it was last updated.
  （网络留言板上能吸引浏览者长时间或多次浏览的）置顶留言
  a sticky thread is now live on the forum
  Example sentencesExamples
  I wonder if it would be a good idea to add sticky thread capability so we can have the equivalent of the 'Stupid Questions' at the top of every forum that needs one.
  The post announcing the event should be sticky until the day of the event.
  How does all this relate to the concept of creating sticky group discussions?
  I'm chucking in another vote for sticky topics.
  We thought it might be useful if we had a single post containing details of the most useful guides, links and resources that have appeared on this forum - hence the new sticky post that you will see in this section.
  It's been my long held opinion that we could get huge benefits from sticky threads for this sort of thing, should it become technically possible to implement.
  You can have a sticky thread with the most understandable topic title ever and you'll still have muppets posting the same questions underneath.
  Have we ever had sticky threads, I can't remember?
  If you know of any topics that should be included in the sticky topics at the top of each forum, please tell that forum's moderator.
  Maybe this post should be sticky so it always stays on top?
  We could just have one sticky thread that is always posted to whenever an announcement is made.
  Note that in the Forum's Tarantino Books Corner, there is one sticky topic for each of the available Tarantino books, so it is very easy to find information on those books.
  I wish we had sticky threads, or maybe just a little new poster section.
  I wanted to find out whether it was possible to have an option to 'minimise' the sticky section on any given thread?
  You can have more than one sticky post and you can easily change which posts are sticky.
  If you post in a sticky topic, you may find that the topic becomes "stuck" on your "New Posts" page as well.
  I prefer having general help and advice on a static web page, rather than as sticky posts in a forum.
  Would it be possible to make the thread sticky?
  I must admit that I'm not keen on the return of the 'three most recently replied to topics' idea but if we do bring that back, might sticky topics mess that up a bit?
  Should we make a sticky FAQ for this board?
2. 4.2informal Long-lasting or persistent.
  his new nickname has proved to be surprisingly sticky
  Example sentencesExamples
  He has a bad habit of spreading sticky rumours about other residents.
  These labels are, however, often based on assumptions and stereotypes - and can be sticky and difficult to shake off.
  As usual, the envy is largely baseless and dumb, but it's sticky and hard to shake.
  With the really sticky ideas, a company has told a story to people throughout the company and beyond, so that employees can make the right decisions on their own.
  The sticky idea that tests are measures of achievement persists.
  Some habits can be quite sticky and hard to change.
  Once our attention is grabbed, sticky ideas refuse to let go, holding our interest by creating in us a need to discover the outcome.
  A study done by an associate professor at Ohio State University has debunked the sticky myth that 9 out of every 10 restaurants fails in the first year.
  The sticky nature of these and so many other urban legends intrigued the authors.
  Sometimes a carefully crafted given name simply gives way to a sticky nickname.
  The hard part is picking from several valuable ideas the single most valuable idea and making it as sticky as possible.
  Psychiatric labels that define certain behaviours and beliefs as deviant are particularly sticky and difficult to escape from.
  If you have followed the way the press operate over the past couple of decades, you can smell a sticky story that pushes the desired narrative a mile away.
  Trinidad has a very rich history and culture which has proven to be sticky in an ever changing modern world.
  The sticky nickname of Health Nazis is now universally used by any opponent to define Tobacco Control.
  This view has proved remarkably sticky.
  There have been several failed attempts at advertising systems for online content, but some more recent methods have proven to be sticky.
  It's a sadly sticky nickname that was given to me by my best friend.
  These industries proved to be sticky, long-lasting, respectful to people and the environment and a key to innovation.
  Customers tend to stick around. ‘These are sticky, long-term contracts’.

nounPlural stickies ˈstɪkiˈstɪki

1A piece of paper with an adhesive strip on one side, used for leaving messages or reminders.
（一面带有胶条的）黄色粘贴纸
Example sentencesExamples
- I certainly needed my deck of yellow stickies to flag her intelligent illustrations, but I found it all quite manageable because she writes so well.
- And I get to put little red and orange stickies at the bottom of the pages, too.
- And the secure system with the hard-to-guess passwords won't be very secure after users post their passwords on little yellow stickies.
- Handling problems and dealing with a nonstop barrage of calls is probably more than can be efficiently handled by a few yellow stickies.
- I found that I had to keep a deck of small yellow stickies at hand to post on pages with diagrams and definitions.
- Jay picked up one of the stickies on her desk and passed it to him.
- Perfect pictures of sunny days, birthday parties and proms, of boyfriends, girlfriends and parents all hamming it up for the camera were as abundant as the yellow stickies that plastered his desk back at the precinct.
2(in an online forum) a thread containing important information that is set to remain at the top of the other threads regardless of when it was last updated.
（网络留言板上能吸引浏览者长时间或多次浏览的）置顶留言
could you put a sticky in the forum for those of us that are confused?
Example sentencesExamples
- Should "Loop Back Test Instructions" be made into a sticky?
- A lot of stickies were brought in from the sub-forums and probably shouldn't be stickies any more.
- The Mint Forum has a number of stickies explaining how to configure Mint using familiar terms from the config files of your favorite blogging software.
- This thread should really be a sticky.
- Let me start by saying sorry if this has been posted elsewhere, but I couldn't find it in the sticky and I'm not sure how to search whole questions.
- The two useful threads are hidden amongst 20 threads that should not be stickies.
- Since it's been suggested there were too many stickies at the top of the forum, I'm going to add a layer of indirection and replace them with this thread.
- Mods, can we get this video turned into a sticky?
- I suggest to every new member to read the interesting stickies.
- It remains the mentors' choice whether that thread has become good enough to be made into a sticky in the FAQ-forum.

Phrases

sticky fingers

informal A propensity to steal.
〈非正式〉偷窃的习性，惯偷
Example sentencesExamples
- Oh, I enjoying firing people when I catch them with sticky fingers, stealing.
- Who knows what really happened in that hotel where they are being accused of getting a major case of sticky fingers around a vending machine.
- Caught with sticky fingers Bob dismissed the sum as pocket change and handed it back.
- A solid bike lock is also a good idea to help prevent someone with sticky fingers from leaving with your ride.
- Call me paranoid but I see the long sticky fingers of our State Department at work here.
- This is especially surprising in such a wealthy county - sticky fingers perhaps, somewhere?
- I suspect sticky fingers were responsible for the ones that didn't arrive.
- Well actually, I don't think my cousin Albert would have been fine even if he didn't develop those sticky fingers - he never stayed with one job or woman very long.
- And I think most Americans don't want politicians' sticky fingers going through their tax returns.
- And we have had a spot of bother with sticky fingers as well.

Derivatives

stickily

adverb ˈstɪkɪliˈstɪkəli

They slid down her face stickily, and she didn't brush them away.
Example sentencesExamples
- Once outside he noticed how stickily the air clung to him, and for the first time noted how badly he must have been sweating back there.
- A spider web glistens stickily in a branch shading the ant hole.
- I'm drooping in the oppressive heat, but Binoche is fresh-faced and crisply unaffected, her impossibly glamorous shoes tucked neatly beneath her, perky and upright as we sprawl stickily in the leather seats.
- In reality this blood which still oozes out stickily, is the red sap of the tree.

stickiness

noun ˈstɪkɪnəsˈstɪkinəs

‘When you have very finely milled starch and sugar together the effect on teeth can be worse than sugar, perhaps because of the stickiness,’ he said.
Example sentencesExamples
- So that's how I spent the afternoon - gently devouring sweet red hearts on a sunny Sunday afternoon, savouring the stickiness - I can think of many worse ways to spend my time.
- Yesterday, with both hands covered in stickiness and occupied cutting the wax capping from the top of the honeycomb, a lump of wax containing honey flew onto my leg and started running down in a nasty tickly way.
- It also helps raise the levels of ‘good’ cholesterol and reduces platelet stickiness, helping to guard against the risk of heart disease and stroke.
- A spot check on the rice produced exemplary grains, glossy and lustrous with the requisite stickiness, deliciously impregnated with the velvety richness of coconut milk.

Rhymes

brickie, Dickie, hickey, icky, mickey, Nicky, picky, quickie, rickey, Rikki, sickie, tricky, Vicky

Definition of sticky in US English:

sticky

adjectiveˈstikēˈstɪki

1Tending or designed to stick to things on contact or covered with something that sticks.
黏的，黏性的；覆盖有黏性物质的
her sticky bubblegum
sticky tape
黏性胶带。
Example sentencesExamples
- Pierce the centre of the cake with a fork - it should come out sticky, but not with raw mixture attached to it.
- The sticky boxes are designed to lure their prey with scents of chocolate and other foods.
- He kept his head down as he mopped, scrubbing at a sticky stain.
- Babbling brats would congregate near my truck, waving their miscounted sticky change in little grubby fists.
- In seawater, the expelled tubules lengthen considerably and become sticky upon contact with any object.
- That means the town centre is soiled with around 200,000 sticky stains.
- Emma went into the kitchen, where sticky plates and bowls and a messy skillet waited.
- Walker stretches double-sided, highly sticky carpet tape between garden stakes in front of the entrance to a burrow.
- The patch is very sticky, and shouldn't fall off.
- They also sprayed some kind of substance on the equipment which made it sticky and unusable.
- The web isn't sticky, but slows prey down long enough for the spider to grab dinner and drag it to the den.
- I no longer cared if something sticky and messy got in it - what use was there in worrying about my hair, when the rest of the world was being threatened?
- Eventually, however I inflated a passable bubble, which left me with a sticky chin, but restored my dignity.
- It was filthy and sticky and as he carefully picked it up to place it in the trash, he noticed some scribble on the back.
- That could be the solution to keeping Swindon's streets free from the sticky stains.
- The table is littered with sticky coffee cups and stickier buns.
- Provide some bowls of water to drop sticky utensils in as you go.
- The main room is so huge it kills atmosphere and the floor was dirty and sticky.
- Jenn felt something sticky on her hand, and removed it.
- Thanks to phenomenally sticky feet, certain spiders can carry 170 times their weight upside-down.
Synonyms
adhesive, adherent, gummed
1. 1.1 (of a substance) glutinous; viscous.
  （物质）黏性的；发黏的
  the dough should be moist but not sticky
  那面团应当湿润但不能发黏。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Some of the sticky substance stuck on her shoe and she grimaced in disgust.
  After rubbing them against the bumpy bark, I had covered them in a pungent sticky sap, designed to protect the trees from the tendency to rot in such a wet environment.
  Be careful not to use an oily wood which will release sticky resin when hot.
  His hand came in contact with the sticky remains of one Twinkie.
  Once we had a food project and I made a sticky mess of a cake.
  I love a trip to the cinema except for the rather sticky residue on the floor.
  The bottom of my bags usually turn into a potpourri of sticky gum, tobacco, half eaten cough drops and pennies that are slimed in a foreign substance.
  Then, she proceeded in smearing the sticky pink glob all over his curly hair.
  When an egg is laid it is covered by a sticky substance that glues the egg firmly to any surface on which it is laid, irrespective of whether it is an adult bug or a plant.
  And these are enzymes that make up a gluey, sticky substance, known as glucan, and the bacteria make this from sugar.
  In the last number of weeks a sticky coating has been painted on to the roof and the top of the walls.
  The dough will be firm but moist, and a bit sticky to the touch.
  The maidservant watched as a slow trickle of a thick sticky black substance began to run down the carved panels.
  Ideally the amount of honey used is regulated so that the finished processed licorice is only slightly sticky.
  Stir in the flour and salt, a sticky dough should form.
  Now ants have this relationship with aphids where they looks after aphids and move them around and eat the sweet sticky substance aphids secrete onto plant leaves.
  I personally had a most unpleasant train trip just last week where someone had blatantly smeared sticky jam all over the handrails and back of seats.
  These vegetables are often pounded into a thick, sticky dough or paste.
  It looks a bit like a fire extinguisher and you spray it and this sticky foam goes all over you and then it hardens and then you're just kind of stuck to the floor.
  Gently remove the sticky residue with warm water and a wash cloth.
  Synonyms
  glutinous, viscous, viscid
2. 1.2 (of prices, interest rates, or wages) slow to change or react to change.
  （价格，利率，薪水）变化缓慢的；对变化反应缓慢的
  Example sentencesExamples
  The negative repercussions of such inadequate concurrent production are made worse if prices are sticky or do not adjust quickly.
  It is true that in the short run, wages seem to be sticky and we get results that are inconsistent with market clearing, notably bouts of high unemployment.
  In many parts of the southeast of England house sales are proving to be stubbornly sticky, even after sellers have made a 5 % or 10 % cut in the asking price to achieve a sale.
  What is far more likely to be the case is that one market will have "stickier" prices than the other.
  Inflation helps the economy deal with sticky wages and prices.
  Long-term rates have proven to be sticky.
  Such sticky prices in the presence of an increase in the money supply then result in increased real demand.
  The presence of nonmarket forces, such as regulations, sticky wages, or tradition, may weaken competition.
  Wages are typically very sticky and slow to adjust and the job market in Hong Kong will stay very competitive.
  The pace of house price increases has slowed markedly, and in many parts of the southeast of England house sales are proving to be stubbornly sticky.
  Retail gasoline prices tend to be stickier than wholesale ones.
  UK inflation is proving to be far stickier than Eurozone inflation.
  The second quarter showed just how sticky prices can be on the downward side.
  New theories of unemployment give a reason that wages and prices would be sticky.
  Approximately 70 per cent of the company's costs are labour related and these are likely to be sticky in the short to medium term.
  I would think that commercial real estate would tend to be somewhat more sensitive to interest rates and to economic conditions than residential real estate, where prices are probably stickier.
  As with other manufactured products, bread prices tend to be sticky.
  Sticky prices in the face of positive movement in the economy points to some form of distortion.
  Labor is no longer a commodity with a sticky price.
  Why are food and energy prices so much stickier in the U. K. than elsewhere?
2(of the weather) hot and damp; muggy.
（天气）湿热的；闷热的
it was an unusually hot and sticky summer
那是一个极其湿热的夏天。
Example sentencesExamples
- The water lapped playfully closer and close to our toes and the cool sand embraced our bodies like a fresh sheet on a sticky summer night.
- This mix, accompanied by a sticky heat, climate and geography completely separate from the rest of the USA, creates a romantic mystery for the whole state.
- Right after we came ashore, we felt the sticky, humid air of the land hit our faces.
- Hot, sticky weather such as that we have been having for the last few days simply adds to stress, says Mrs Clarke - and makes it more likely that we will flare out of control.
- History is the eventual arbiter for all that is argued in the sticky, sweaty months of summer.
- The weather was very hot and sticky but the good news was no rain.
- The music is soulful, the weather is warm and sticky, and the women are beautiful.
- In an open-neck blue shirt, crisp denim jeans, brown suede shoes, and carrying a denim jacket, he is ideally dressed for the sticky weather.
- It's a great place to go in the summer when it gets very hot and sticky.
- Its so muggy and sticky and every time I breath in, the air feels disgustingly warm and damp.
- The sultry, sticky heat that usually hangs over central Japan in summertime might have been bothersome to many.
- If the weather is sticky, it is humid and not particularly pleasant.
- The air was so humid and sticky that it made breathing difficult.
- Not only is this the worst month of the year for hot and sticky weather, but we've had a couple of weeks of absolute train chaos.
- They proved that once again with a virtually flawless set on this sticky late summer evening.
- Summers at Valley Forge are miserably hot and sticky - not at all like the breezy cool of the Kenyan highlands.
- The Constitution of the United States was crafted over four hot, sticky months in the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia.
- Sitting in fringe theatres on sticky summer nights can be pretty purgatorial.
- When it is sticky and sweaty, no one really cares about drinking wisely and well.
- The nation's capital attracts every type of tourist in the sticky summer months.
Synonyms
humid, muggy, close, sultry, sweltering, steamy, oppressive, airless, stifling, suffocating, sweaty, soupy, like a turkish bath, like a sauna
1. 2.1 Damp with sweat.
  （由于出汗）潮湿的
  she felt hot and sticky and changed her clothes
  她感到又热又潮湿，因此换了衣服。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Patients often feel cool, yet clammy or sticky to touch, and sometimes have dilated hand veins.
  It is my heavily researched belief that high pressure has a horrible effect on people, they're sticky, they're clammy, their bile rises and they snap at each other.
  Arven wiped his slimy hands, which were now beginning to get disgustingly sticky.
  When they are sweating and get sticky, I just open up the harness zipper.
  They left the room and he pulled off the sticky, damp shirt.
  I couldn't help but notice how cool and dry Rick's hand felt, not moist and sticky.
  His hair was wet with sweat, and his face was flush and sticky.
  She dropped her luggage to the ground and immediately peeled her sweater from her moist, sticky skin.
  Perhaps it was a sensation crystallised by the potent mix of sun and alcohol, and sweat cooled onto a sticky back.
  Synonyms
  perspiring, sweating, clammy, glowing, moist, damp, slimy, soggy, dripping, drenched
3informal Involving problems; difficult or awkward.
〈非正式〉卷入麻烦的；困难的；难对付的
the relationship is going through a sticky patch
那种关系正在经历一段困难时期。
Example sentencesExamples
- Don't expect too much and make sure you don't get into any sticky situations.
- Junk bonds roared back into favour in the USA during the 1990s but the market has since hit a sticky patch.
- This is the latest in a growing number of sticky issues that threatens to delay final agreement on the document by its December deadline and push it over into the Irish presidency.
- The problem of soccer gambling has become too sticky even for local police to tackle.
- Issues to be tackled will include the public or private ownership of infrastructure and the sticky question of over-regulation.
- Time will come, one day, when you find yourself in a very sticky situation.
- There is, however, one sticky issue that keeps this arrangement from really reaching its true potential.
- It is a reality that marriages go through sticky times.
- Alas, as a woman with two lives, such situations soon become rather sticky.
- The traffic is much lighter this morning, albeit still quite sticky by any normal standard.
- Now she was stuck in a very sticky situation.
- The only sticky part is that when an invitation is sent very close to the event, then the recipient knows he was not on the original list, but most people roll with that.
- This is a sticky issue because one person's advertisement is another person's junk mail.
- Things are getting pretty sticky in the NFL these days when it comes to the quarterback position.
- I had, as I said, gotten myself into a rather sticky situation.
- He briefs us on the sticky subject of fakes and forgers, and offers sterling advice on how to care for a collection.
- The worst came when we hit a little sticky patch in November.
- Had Fletcher needed more fuel, the situation might have gotten a little sticky.
- Shrinking the grain size in steps is essential because things get increasingly sticky as you head down the size scale.
- So, if things get really sticky, could Ford sell off some of its big assets?
Synonyms
awkward, difficult, tricky, ticklish, problematic, delicate, touch-and-go, embarrassing, sensitive, uncomfortable
4(of a website or its content) attracting a long visit or repeat visits from users.
〈非正式〉（网站）人气旺的
make your site as sticky as possible to keep visitors there longer
more and more often, web designers focus on the need to add sticky features to their sites
Example sentencesExamples
- Library websites are already about as sticky as sites like Amazon, with an average stay of almost ten minutes.
- Websites are supposed to be sticky, they are supposed to change often enough that users are drawn back and, once there, discouraged from leaving.
- Constantly changing both the copy and imagery on your site helps maintain the sticky factor, which helps to bring visitors back to your site time and again.
- Controlling the content on the stickiest kids' site on earth is an increasingly sticky matter.
- Self-linking is one of the strategies to keep the users within a site, but there are other strategies to make sites sticky.
- By definition, search engine results aren't sticky: you're on your way somewhere else.
- Facebook and browser games are now a key element of many film and TV marketing campaigns - they're sticky, they're compelling and they give potential viewers ownership over stories and characters.
- By implementing these tools, you will end up adding value to your website while making your pages more sticky.
- We believe that eventually every major consumer-oriented company will need interactive programming - sticky content - for their Web sites.
- We build a site that is local, compelling and sticky that can drive traffic.
- The site is sticky, with about 20 percent of visitors staying for 20 minutes per day.
- The site is lucid about the complexities of its business model - how its sticky content will produce a growing mass of daily page views.
- Originally a way to stay above water by making their sites more sticky, developers now recognise the importance of social play in their community development and pour them into the design mix.
- Traffic at the Survivor site spikes during that program, with the average viewer clicking around for a very sticky 30 minutes.
- The use of Flash technologies saves production time and makes the site more interactive and sticky.
- To make your website stickier you can add a few simple interactive applications like site polls, surveys, a guest book, and an event calendar.
- Running a successful website can be a fulfilling activity, and it's my job to take you step by step through the route to creating a gorgeous, fast, accessible and sticky site.
- Page views are a good indication of how sticky your website is.
- The best thing about the site is that it provides an exceptionally sticky, single point of access for all things on the web concerning Ireland.
- Horoscopes in particular must be the original sticky content, keeping your visitors coming back day after day or week after week.
1. 4.1 (of a thread in an online forum) set to remain at the top of the other threads regardless of when it was last updated.
  （网络留言板上能吸引浏览者长时间或多次浏览的）置顶留言
  a sticky thread is now live on the forum
  Example sentencesExamples
  Would it be possible to make the thread sticky?
  You can have a sticky thread with the most understandable topic title ever and you'll still have muppets posting the same questions underneath.
  Maybe this post should be sticky so it always stays on top?
  I must admit that I'm not keen on the return of the 'three most recently replied to topics' idea but if we do bring that back, might sticky topics mess that up a bit?
  I'm chucking in another vote for sticky topics.
  I wanted to find out whether it was possible to have an option to 'minimise' the sticky section on any given thread?
  We thought it might be useful if we had a single post containing details of the most useful guides, links and resources that have appeared on this forum - hence the new sticky post that you will see in this section.
  How does all this relate to the concept of creating sticky group discussions?
  If you know of any topics that should be included in the sticky topics at the top of each forum, please tell that forum's moderator.
  I wish we had sticky threads, or maybe just a little new poster section.
  If you post in a sticky topic, you may find that the topic becomes "stuck" on your "New Posts" page as well.
  Note that in the Forum's Tarantino Books Corner, there is one sticky topic for each of the available Tarantino books, so it is very easy to find information on those books.
  I wonder if it would be a good idea to add sticky thread capability so we can have the equivalent of the 'Stupid Questions' at the top of every forum that needs one.
  Have we ever had sticky threads, I can't remember?
  It's been my long held opinion that we could get huge benefits from sticky threads for this sort of thing, should it become technically possible to implement.
  You can have more than one sticky post and you can easily change which posts are sticky.
  Should we make a sticky FAQ for this board?
  The post announcing the event should be sticky until the day of the event.
  I prefer having general help and advice on a static web page, rather than as sticky posts in a forum.
  We could just have one sticky thread that is always posted to whenever an announcement is made.
2. 4.2informal Long-lasting or persistent.
  his new nickname has proved to be surprisingly sticky
  Example sentencesExamples
  Customers tend to stick around. ‘These are sticky, long-term contracts’.
  The sticky nature of these and so many other urban legends intrigued the authors.
  With the really sticky ideas, a company has told a story to people throughout the company and beyond, so that employees can make the right decisions on their own.
  Trinidad has a very rich history and culture which has proven to be sticky in an ever changing modern world.
  The sticky nickname of Health Nazis is now universally used by any opponent to define Tobacco Control.
  Some habits can be quite sticky and hard to change.
  As usual, the envy is largely baseless and dumb, but it's sticky and hard to shake.
  He has a bad habit of spreading sticky rumours about other residents.
  This view has proved remarkably sticky.
  These labels are, however, often based on assumptions and stereotypes - and can be sticky and difficult to shake off.
  These industries proved to be sticky, long-lasting, respectful to people and the environment and a key to innovation.
  The hard part is picking from several valuable ideas the single most valuable idea and making it as sticky as possible.
  There have been several failed attempts at advertising systems for online content, but some more recent methods have proven to be sticky.
  Psychiatric labels that define certain behaviours and beliefs as deviant are particularly sticky and difficult to escape from.
  Once our attention is grabbed, sticky ideas refuse to let go, holding our interest by creating in us a need to discover the outcome.
  Sometimes a carefully crafted given name simply gives way to a sticky nickname.
  A study done by an associate professor at Ohio State University has debunked the sticky myth that 9 out of every 10 restaurants fails in the first year.
  It's a sadly sticky nickname that was given to me by my best friend.
  The sticky idea that tests are measures of achievement persists.
  If you have followed the way the press operate over the past couple of decades, you can smell a sticky story that pushes the desired narrative a mile away.

nounˈstikēˈstɪki

(in an online forum) a thread containing important information that is set to remain at the top of the other threads regardless of when it was last updated.
（网络留言板上能吸引浏览者长时间或多次浏览的）置顶留言
could you put a sticky in the forum for those of us that are confused?
Example sentencesExamples
- Let me start by saying sorry if this has been posted elsewhere, but I couldn't find it in the sticky and I'm not sure how to search whole questions.
- The two useful threads are hidden amongst 20 threads that should not be stickies.
- I suggest to every new member to read the interesting stickies.
- Since it's been suggested there were too many stickies at the top of the forum, I'm going to add a layer of indirection and replace them with this thread.
- The Mint Forum has a number of stickies explaining how to configure Mint using familiar terms from the config files of your favorite blogging software.
- Should "Loop Back Test Instructions" be made into a sticky?
- This thread should really be a sticky.
- It remains the mentors' choice whether that thread has become good enough to be made into a sticky in the FAQ-forum.
- A lot of stickies were brought in from the sub-forums and probably shouldn't be stickies any more.
- Mods, can we get this video turned into a sticky?

Phrases

sticky fingers

informal A propensity to steal.
〈非正式〉偷窃的习性，惯偷
Example sentencesExamples
- This is especially surprising in such a wealthy county - sticky fingers perhaps, somewhere?
- Who knows what really happened in that hotel where they are being accused of getting a major case of sticky fingers around a vending machine.
- Caught with sticky fingers Bob dismissed the sum as pocket change and handed it back.
- Oh, I enjoying firing people when I catch them with sticky fingers, stealing.
- And we have had a spot of bother with sticky fingers as well.
- A solid bike lock is also a good idea to help prevent someone with sticky fingers from leaving with your ride.
- Well actually, I don't think my cousin Albert would have been fine even if he didn't develop those sticky fingers - he never stayed with one job or woman very long.
- Call me paranoid but I see the long sticky fingers of our State Department at work here.
- And I think most Americans don't want politicians' sticky fingers going through their tax returns.
- I suspect sticky fingers were responsible for the ones that didn't arrive.

词汇	sticky
释义	Definition of sticky in English: sticky adjectivestickier, stickiest ˈstɪkiˈstɪki 1Tending or designed to stick to things on contact. 黏的，黏性的；覆盖有黏性物质的 sticky cakes and pastries 黏糊糊的饼和糕点。 a sticky label Example sentencesExamples Thanks to phenomenally sticky feet, certain spiders can carry 170 times their weight upside-down. In seawater, the expelled tubules lengthen considerably and become sticky upon contact with any object. Emma went into the kitchen, where sticky plates and bowls and a messy skillet waited. I no longer cared if something sticky and messy got in it - what use was there in worrying about my hair, when the rest of the world was being threatened? Jenn felt something sticky on her hand, and removed it. That means the town centre is soiled with around 200,000 sticky stains. The sticky boxes are designed to lure their prey with scents of chocolate and other foods. The patch is very sticky, and shouldn't fall off. Provide some bowls of water to drop sticky utensils in as you go. It was filthy and sticky and as he carefully picked it up to place it in the trash, he noticed some scribble on the back. The main room is so huge it kills atmosphere and the floor was dirty and sticky. The web isn't sticky, but slows prey down long enough for the spider to grab dinner and drag it to the den. Walker stretches double-sided, highly sticky carpet tape between garden stakes in front of the entrance to a burrow. They also sprayed some kind of substance on the equipment which made it sticky and unusable. That could be the solution to keeping Swindon's streets free from the sticky stains. Babbling brats would congregate near my truck, waving their miscounted sticky change in little grubby fists. The table is littered with sticky coffee cups and stickier buns. He kept his head down as he mopped, scrubbing at a sticky stain. Pierce the centre of the cake with a fork - it should come out sticky, but not with raw mixture attached to it. Eventually, however I inflated a passable bubble, which left me with a sticky chin, but restored my dignity. Synonyms adhesive, adherent, gummed rare tenacious 1.1 (of a substance) glutinous; viscous. （物质）黏性的；发黏的 the dough should be moist but not sticky 那面团应当湿润但不能发黏。 Example sentencesExamples In the last number of weeks a sticky coating has been painted on to the roof and the top of the walls. After rubbing them against the bumpy bark, I had covered them in a pungent sticky sap, designed to protect the trees from the tendency to rot in such a wet environment. Then, she proceeded in smearing the sticky pink glob all over his curly hair. I personally had a most unpleasant train trip just last week where someone had blatantly smeared sticky jam all over the handrails and back of seats. Once we had a food project and I made a sticky mess of a cake. The maidservant watched as a slow trickle of a thick sticky black substance began to run down the carved panels. His hand came in contact with the sticky remains of one Twinkie. Gently remove the sticky residue with warm water and a wash cloth. These vegetables are often pounded into a thick, sticky dough or paste. The bottom of my bags usually turn into a potpourri of sticky gum, tobacco, half eaten cough drops and pennies that are slimed in a foreign substance. And these are enzymes that make up a gluey, sticky substance, known as glucan, and the bacteria make this from sugar. The dough will be firm but moist, and a bit sticky to the touch. It looks a bit like a fire extinguisher and you spray it and this sticky foam goes all over you and then it hardens and then you're just kind of stuck to the floor. Be careful not to use an oily wood which will release sticky resin when hot. Now ants have this relationship with aphids where they looks after aphids and move them around and eat the sweet sticky substance aphids secrete onto plant leaves. Some of the sticky substance stuck on her shoe and she grimaced in disgust. I love a trip to the cinema except for the rather sticky residue on the floor. When an egg is laid it is covered by a sticky substance that glues the egg firmly to any surface on which it is laid, irrespective of whether it is an adult bug or a plant. Ideally the amount of honey used is regulated so that the finished processed licorice is only slightly sticky. Stir in the flour and salt, a sticky dough should form. Synonyms glutinous, viscous, viscid gluey, tacky, gummy, treacly, syrupy mucilaginous British claggy Scottish &amp Northern English clarty informal gooey, gloopy, cloggy, gungy, icky North American informal gloppy rare viscoid 1.2 (of prices, interest rates, or wages) slow to change or react to change. （价格，利率，薪水）变化缓慢的；对变化反应缓慢的 Example sentencesExamples New theories of unemployment give a reason that wages and prices would be sticky. Long-term rates have proven to be sticky. As with other manufactured products, bread prices tend to be sticky. Inflation helps the economy deal with sticky wages and prices. UK inflation is proving to be far stickier than Eurozone inflation. Wages are typically very sticky and slow to adjust and the job market in Hong Kong will stay very competitive. Such sticky prices in the presence of an increase in the money supply then result in increased real demand. In many parts of the southeast of England house sales are proving to be stubbornly sticky, even after sellers have made a 5 % or 10 % cut in the asking price to achieve a sale. The presence of nonmarket forces, such as regulations, sticky wages, or tradition, may weaken competition. The pace of house price increases has slowed markedly, and in many parts of the southeast of England house sales are proving to be stubbornly sticky. It is true that in the short run, wages seem to be sticky and we get results that are inconsistent with market clearing, notably bouts of high unemployment. The negative repercussions of such inadequate concurrent production are made worse if prices are sticky or do not adjust quickly. Labor is no longer a commodity with a sticky price. Retail gasoline prices tend to be stickier than wholesale ones. I would think that commercial real estate would tend to be somewhat more sensitive to interest rates and to economic conditions than residential real estate, where prices are probably stickier. What is far more likely to be the case is that one market will have "stickier" prices than the other. The second quarter showed just how sticky prices can be on the downward side. Why are food and energy prices so much stickier in the U. K. than elsewhere? Approximately 70 per cent of the company's costs are labour related and these are likely to be sticky in the short to medium term. Sticky prices in the face of positive movement in the economy points to some form of distortion. 2(of the weather) hot and humid; muggy. （天气）湿热的；闷热的 it was an unusually hot and sticky summer 那是一个极其湿热的夏天。 Example sentencesExamples The sultry, sticky heat that usually hangs over central Japan in summertime might have been bothersome to many. The water lapped playfully closer and close to our toes and the cool sand embraced our bodies like a fresh sheet on a sticky summer night. Its so muggy and sticky and every time I breath in, the air feels disgustingly warm and damp. This mix, accompanied by a sticky heat, climate and geography completely separate from the rest of the USA, creates a romantic mystery for the whole state. Right after we came ashore, we felt the sticky, humid air of the land hit our faces. The nation's capital attracts every type of tourist in the sticky summer months. Summers at Valley Forge are miserably hot and sticky - not at all like the breezy cool of the Kenyan highlands. In an open-neck blue shirt, crisp denim jeans, brown suede shoes, and carrying a denim jacket, he is ideally dressed for the sticky weather. The Constitution of the United States was crafted over four hot, sticky months in the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia. Hot, sticky weather such as that we have been having for the last few days simply adds to stress, says Mrs Clarke - and makes it more likely that we will flare out of control. If the weather is sticky, it is humid and not particularly pleasant. Not only is this the worst month of the year for hot and sticky weather, but we've had a couple of weeks of absolute train chaos. The air was so humid and sticky that it made breathing difficult. Sitting in fringe theatres on sticky summer nights can be pretty purgatorial. The weather was very hot and sticky but the good news was no rain. They proved that once again with a virtually flawless set on this sticky late summer evening. The music is soulful, the weather is warm and sticky, and the women are beautiful. When it is sticky and sweaty, no one really cares about drinking wisely and well. History is the eventual arbiter for all that is argued in the sticky, sweaty months of summer. It's a great place to go in the summer when it gets very hot and sticky. Synonyms humid, muggy, close, sultry, sweltering, steamy, oppressive, airless, stifling, suffocating, sweaty, soupy, like a Turkish bath, like a sauna 2.1 Damp with sweat. （由于出汗）潮湿的 she felt hot and sticky and changed her clothes 她感到又热又潮湿，因此换了衣服。 Example sentencesExamples Perhaps it was a sensation crystallised by the potent mix of sun and alcohol, and sweat cooled onto a sticky back. Arven wiped his slimy hands, which were now beginning to get disgustingly sticky. His hair was wet with sweat, and his face was flush and sticky. They left the room and he pulled off the sticky, damp shirt. I couldn't help but notice how cool and dry Rick's hand felt, not moist and sticky. It is my heavily researched belief that high pressure has a horrible effect on people, they're sticky, they're clammy, their bile rises and they snap at each other. When they are sweating and get sticky, I just open up the harness zipper. She dropped her luggage to the ground and immediately peeled her sweater from her moist, sticky skin. Patients often feel cool, yet clammy or sticky to touch, and sometimes have dilated hand veins. Synonyms perspiring, sweating, clammy, glowing, moist, damp, slimy, soggy, dripping, drenched 3informal Involving problems; difficult or awkward. 〈非正式〉卷入麻烦的；困难的；难对付的 the relationship is going through a sticky patch 那种关系正在经历一段困难时期。 Example sentencesExamples The traffic is much lighter this morning, albeit still quite sticky by any normal standard. The worst came when we hit a little sticky patch in November. Junk bonds roared back into favour in the USA during the 1990s but the market has since hit a sticky patch. This is the latest in a growing number of sticky issues that threatens to delay final agreement on the document by its December deadline and push it over into the Irish presidency. Now she was stuck in a very sticky situation. The only sticky part is that when an invitation is sent very close to the event, then the recipient knows he was not on the original list, but most people roll with that. Shrinking the grain size in steps is essential because things get increasingly sticky as you head down the size scale. Time will come, one day, when you find yourself in a very sticky situation. This is a sticky issue because one person's advertisement is another person's junk mail. The problem of soccer gambling has become too sticky even for local police to tackle. Had Fletcher needed more fuel, the situation might have gotten a little sticky. He briefs us on the sticky subject of fakes and forgers, and offers sterling advice on how to care for a collection. Issues to be tackled will include the public or private ownership of infrastructure and the sticky question of over-regulation. There is, however, one sticky issue that keeps this arrangement from really reaching its true potential. Alas, as a woman with two lives, such situations soon become rather sticky. I had, as I said, gotten myself into a rather sticky situation. Things are getting pretty sticky in the NFL these days when it comes to the quarterback position. It is a reality that marriages go through sticky times. So, if things get really sticky, could Ford sell off some of its big assets? Don't expect too much and make sure you don't get into any sticky situations. Synonyms awkward, difficult, tricky, ticklish, problematic, delicate, touch-and-go, embarrassing, sensitive, uncomfortable informal hairy 4(of a website or its content) attracting a long visit or repeat visits from users. 〈非正式〉（网站）人气旺的 make your site as sticky as possible to keep visitors there longer more and more often, web designers focus on the need to add sticky features to their sites Example sentencesExamples Websites are supposed to be sticky, they are supposed to change often enough that users are drawn back and, once there, discouraged from leaving. Horoscopes in particular must be the original sticky content, keeping your visitors coming back day after day or week after week. The site is lucid about the complexities of its business model - how its sticky content will produce a growing mass of daily page views. Running a successful website can be a fulfilling activity, and it's my job to take you step by step through the route to creating a gorgeous, fast, accessible and sticky site. Originally a way to stay above water by making their sites more sticky, developers now recognise the importance of social play in their community development and pour them into the design mix. The use of Flash technologies saves production time and makes the site more interactive and sticky. We believe that eventually every major consumer-oriented company will need interactive programming - sticky content - for their Web sites. The best thing about the site is that it provides an exceptionally sticky, single point of access for all things on the web concerning Ireland. Facebook and browser games are now a key element of many film and TV marketing campaigns - they're sticky, they're compelling and they give potential viewers ownership over stories and characters. Page views are a good indication of how sticky your website is. To make your website stickier you can add a few simple interactive applications like site polls, surveys, a guest book, and an event calendar. Traffic at the Survivor site spikes during that program, with the average viewer clicking around for a very sticky 30 minutes. The site is sticky, with about 20 percent of visitors staying for 20 minutes per day. Self-linking is one of the strategies to keep the users within a site, but there are other strategies to make sites sticky. By implementing these tools, you will end up adding value to your website while making your pages more sticky. By definition, search engine results aren't sticky: you're on your way somewhere else. Library websites are already about as sticky as sites like Amazon, with an average stay of almost ten minutes. We build a site that is local, compelling and sticky that can drive traffic. Controlling the content on the stickiest kids' site on earth is an increasingly sticky matter. Constantly changing both the copy and imagery on your site helps maintain the sticky factor, which helps to bring visitors back to your site time and again. 4.1 (of a thread in an online forum) set to remain at the top of the other threads regardless of when it was last updated. （网络留言板上能吸引浏览者长时间或多次浏览的）置顶留言 a sticky thread is now live on the forum Example sentencesExamples I wonder if it would be a good idea to add sticky thread capability so we can have the equivalent of the 'Stupid Questions' at the top of every forum that needs one. The post announcing the event should be sticky until the day of the event. How does all this relate to the concept of creating sticky group discussions? I'm chucking in another vote for sticky topics. We thought it might be useful if we had a single post containing details of the most useful guides, links and resources that have appeared on this forum - hence the new sticky post that you will see in this section. It's been my long held opinion that we could get huge benefits from sticky threads for this sort of thing, should it become technically possible to implement. You can have a sticky thread with the most understandable topic title ever and you'll still have muppets posting the same questions underneath. Have we ever had sticky threads, I can't remember? If you know of any topics that should be included in the sticky topics at the top of each forum, please tell that forum's moderator. Maybe this post should be sticky so it always stays on top? We could just have one sticky thread that is always posted to whenever an announcement is made. Note that in the Forum's Tarantino Books Corner, there is one sticky topic for each of the available Tarantino books, so it is very easy to find information on those books. I wish we had sticky threads, or maybe just a little new poster section. I wanted to find out whether it was possible to have an option to 'minimise' the sticky section on any given thread? You can have more than one sticky post and you can easily change which posts are sticky. If you post in a sticky topic, you may find that the topic becomes "stuck" on your "New Posts" page as well. I prefer having general help and advice on a static web page, rather than as sticky posts in a forum. Would it be possible to make the thread sticky? I must admit that I'm not keen on the return of the 'three most recently replied to topics' idea but if we do bring that back, might sticky topics mess that up a bit? Should we make a sticky FAQ for this board? 4.2informal Long-lasting or persistent. his new nickname has proved to be surprisingly sticky Example sentencesExamples He has a bad habit of spreading sticky rumours about other residents. These labels are, however, often based on assumptions and stereotypes - and can be sticky and difficult to shake off. As usual, the envy is largely baseless and dumb, but it's sticky and hard to shake. With the really sticky ideas, a company has told a story to people throughout the company and beyond, so that employees can make the right decisions on their own. The sticky idea that tests are measures of achievement persists. Some habits can be quite sticky and hard to change. Once our attention is grabbed, sticky ideas refuse to let go, holding our interest by creating in us a need to discover the outcome. A study done by an associate professor at Ohio State University has debunked the sticky myth that 9 out of every 10 restaurants fails in the first year. The sticky nature of these and so many other urban legends intrigued the authors. Sometimes a carefully crafted given name simply gives way to a sticky nickname. The hard part is picking from several valuable ideas the single most valuable idea and making it as sticky as possible. Psychiatric labels that define certain behaviours and beliefs as deviant are particularly sticky and difficult to escape from. If you have followed the way the press operate over the past couple of decades, you can smell a sticky story that pushes the desired narrative a mile away. Trinidad has a very rich history and culture which has proven to be sticky in an ever changing modern world. The sticky nickname of Health Nazis is now universally used by any opponent to define Tobacco Control. This view has proved remarkably sticky. There have been several failed attempts at advertising systems for online content, but some more recent methods have proven to be sticky. It's a sadly sticky nickname that was given to me by my best friend. These industries proved to be sticky, long-lasting, respectful to people and the environment and a key to innovation. Customers tend to stick around. ‘These are sticky, long-term contracts’. nounPlural stickies ˈstɪkiˈstɪki 1A piece of paper with an adhesive strip on one side, used for leaving messages or reminders. （一面带有胶条的）黄色粘贴纸 Example sentencesExamples I certainly needed my deck of yellow stickies to flag her intelligent illustrations, but I found it all quite manageable because she writes so well. And I get to put little red and orange stickies at the bottom of the pages, too. And the secure system with the hard-to-guess passwords won't be very secure after users post their passwords on little yellow stickies. Handling problems and dealing with a nonstop barrage of calls is probably more than can be efficiently handled by a few yellow stickies. I found that I had to keep a deck of small yellow stickies at hand to post on pages with diagrams and definitions. Jay picked up one of the stickies on her desk and passed it to him. Perfect pictures of sunny days, birthday parties and proms, of boyfriends, girlfriends and parents all hamming it up for the camera were as abundant as the yellow stickies that plastered his desk back at the precinct. 2(in an online forum) a thread containing important information that is set to remain at the top of the other threads regardless of when it was last updated. （网络留言板上能吸引浏览者长时间或多次浏览的）置顶留言 could you put a sticky in the forum for those of us that are confused? Example sentencesExamples Should "Loop Back Test Instructions" be made into a sticky? A lot of stickies were brought in from the sub-forums and probably shouldn't be stickies any more. The Mint Forum has a number of stickies explaining how to configure Mint using familiar terms from the config files of your favorite blogging software. This thread should really be a sticky. Let me start by saying sorry if this has been posted elsewhere, but I couldn't find it in the sticky and I'm not sure how to search whole questions. The two useful threads are hidden amongst 20 threads that should not be stickies. Since it's been suggested there were too many stickies at the top of the forum, I'm going to add a layer of indirection and replace them with this thread. Mods, can we get this video turned into a sticky? I suggest to every new member to read the interesting stickies. It remains the mentors' choice whether that thread has become good enough to be made into a sticky in the FAQ-forum. Phrases sticky fingers informal A propensity to steal. 〈非正式〉偷窃的习性，惯偷 Example sentencesExamples Oh, I enjoying firing people when I catch them with sticky fingers, stealing. Who knows what really happened in that hotel where they are being accused of getting a major case of sticky fingers around a vending machine. Caught with sticky fingers Bob dismissed the sum as pocket change and handed it back. A solid bike lock is also a good idea to help prevent someone with sticky fingers from leaving with your ride. Call me paranoid but I see the long sticky fingers of our State Department at work here. This is especially surprising in such a wealthy county - sticky fingers perhaps, somewhere? I suspect sticky fingers were responsible for the ones that didn't arrive. Well actually, I don't think my cousin Albert would have been fine even if he didn't develop those sticky fingers - he never stayed with one job or woman very long. And I think most Americans don't want politicians' sticky fingers going through their tax returns. And we have had a spot of bother with sticky fingers as well. Derivatives stickily adverb ˈstɪkɪliˈstɪkəli They slid down her face stickily, and she didn't brush them away. Example sentencesExamples Once outside he noticed how stickily the air clung to him, and for the first time noted how badly he must have been sweating back there. A spider web glistens stickily in a branch shading the ant hole. I'm drooping in the oppressive heat, but Binoche is fresh-faced and crisply unaffected, her impossibly glamorous shoes tucked neatly beneath her, perky and upright as we sprawl stickily in the leather seats. In reality this blood which still oozes out stickily, is the red sap of the tree. stickiness noun ˈstɪkɪnəsˈstɪkinəs ‘When you have very finely milled starch and sugar together the effect on teeth can be worse than sugar, perhaps because of the stickiness,’ he said. Example sentencesExamples So that's how I spent the afternoon - gently devouring sweet red hearts on a sunny Sunday afternoon, savouring the stickiness - I can think of many worse ways to spend my time. Yesterday, with both hands covered in stickiness and occupied cutting the wax capping from the top of the honeycomb, a lump of wax containing honey flew onto my leg and started running down in a nasty tickly way. It also helps raise the levels of ‘good’ cholesterol and reduces platelet stickiness, helping to guard against the risk of heart disease and stroke. A spot check on the rice produced exemplary grains, glossy and lustrous with the requisite stickiness, deliciously impregnated with the velvety richness of coconut milk. Rhymes brickie, Dickie, hickey, icky, mickey, Nicky, picky, quickie, rickey, Rikki, sickie, tricky, Vicky adj.1 phr. Definition of sticky in US English: sticky adjectiveˈstikēˈstɪki 1Tending or designed to stick to things on contact or covered with something that sticks. 黏的，黏性的；覆盖有黏性物质的 her sticky bubblegum sticky tape 黏性胶带。 Example sentencesExamples Pierce the centre of the cake with a fork - it should come out sticky, but not with raw mixture attached to it. The sticky boxes are designed to lure their prey with scents of chocolate and other foods. He kept his head down as he mopped, scrubbing at a sticky stain. Babbling brats would congregate near my truck, waving their miscounted sticky change in little grubby fists. In seawater, the expelled tubules lengthen considerably and become sticky upon contact with any object. That means the town centre is soiled with around 200,000 sticky stains. Emma went into the kitchen, where sticky plates and bowls and a messy skillet waited. Walker stretches double-sided, highly sticky carpet tape between garden stakes in front of the entrance to a burrow. The patch is very sticky, and shouldn't fall off. They also sprayed some kind of substance on the equipment which made it sticky and unusable. The web isn't sticky, but slows prey down long enough for the spider to grab dinner and drag it to the den. I no longer cared if something sticky and messy got in it - what use was there in worrying about my hair, when the rest of the world was being threatened? Eventually, however I inflated a passable bubble, which left me with a sticky chin, but restored my dignity. It was filthy and sticky and as he carefully picked it up to place it in the trash, he noticed some scribble on the back. That could be the solution to keeping Swindon's streets free from the sticky stains. The table is littered with sticky coffee cups and stickier buns. Provide some bowls of water to drop sticky utensils in as you go. The main room is so huge it kills atmosphere and the floor was dirty and sticky. Jenn felt something sticky on her hand, and removed it. Thanks to phenomenally sticky feet, certain spiders can carry 170 times their weight upside-down. Synonyms adhesive, adherent, gummed 1.1 (of a substance) glutinous; viscous. （物质）黏性的；发黏的 the dough should be moist but not sticky 那面团应当湿润但不能发黏。 Example sentencesExamples Some of the sticky substance stuck on her shoe and she grimaced in disgust. After rubbing them against the bumpy bark, I had covered them in a pungent sticky sap, designed to protect the trees from the tendency to rot in such a wet environment. Be careful not to use an oily wood which will release sticky resin when hot. His hand came in contact with the sticky remains of one Twinkie. Once we had a food project and I made a sticky mess of a cake. I love a trip to the cinema except for the rather sticky residue on the floor. The bottom of my bags usually turn into a potpourri of sticky gum, tobacco, half eaten cough drops and pennies that are slimed in a foreign substance. Then, she proceeded in smearing the sticky pink glob all over his curly hair. When an egg is laid it is covered by a sticky substance that glues the egg firmly to any surface on which it is laid, irrespective of whether it is an adult bug or a plant. And these are enzymes that make up a gluey, sticky substance, known as glucan, and the bacteria make this from sugar. In the last number of weeks a sticky coating has been painted on to the roof and the top of the walls. The dough will be firm but moist, and a bit sticky to the touch. The maidservant watched as a slow trickle of a thick sticky black substance began to run down the carved panels. Ideally the amount of honey used is regulated so that the finished processed licorice is only slightly sticky. Stir in the flour and salt, a sticky dough should form. Now ants have this relationship with aphids where they looks after aphids and move them around and eat the sweet sticky substance aphids secrete onto plant leaves. I personally had a most unpleasant train trip just last week where someone had blatantly smeared sticky jam all over the handrails and back of seats. These vegetables are often pounded into a thick, sticky dough or paste. It looks a bit like a fire extinguisher and you spray it and this sticky foam goes all over you and then it hardens and then you're just kind of stuck to the floor. Gently remove the sticky residue with warm water and a wash cloth. Synonyms glutinous, viscous, viscid 1.2 (of prices, interest rates, or wages) slow to change or react to change. （价格，利率，薪水）变化缓慢的；对变化反应缓慢的 Example sentencesExamples The negative repercussions of such inadequate concurrent production are made worse if prices are sticky or do not adjust quickly. It is true that in the short run, wages seem to be sticky and we get results that are inconsistent with market clearing, notably bouts of high unemployment. In many parts of the southeast of England house sales are proving to be stubbornly sticky, even after sellers have made a 5 % or 10 % cut in the asking price to achieve a sale. What is far more likely to be the case is that one market will have "stickier" prices than the other. Inflation helps the economy deal with sticky wages and prices. Long-term rates have proven to be sticky. Such sticky prices in the presence of an increase in the money supply then result in increased real demand. The presence of nonmarket forces, such as regulations, sticky wages, or tradition, may weaken competition. Wages are typically very sticky and slow to adjust and the job market in Hong Kong will stay very competitive. The pace of house price increases has slowed markedly, and in many parts of the southeast of England house sales are proving to be stubbornly sticky. Retail gasoline prices tend to be stickier than wholesale ones. UK inflation is proving to be far stickier than Eurozone inflation. The second quarter showed just how sticky prices can be on the downward side. New theories of unemployment give a reason that wages and prices would be sticky. Approximately 70 per cent of the company's costs are labour related and these are likely to be sticky in the short to medium term. I would think that commercial real estate would tend to be somewhat more sensitive to interest rates and to economic conditions than residential real estate, where prices are probably stickier. As with other manufactured products, bread prices tend to be sticky. Sticky prices in the face of positive movement in the economy points to some form of distortion. Labor is no longer a commodity with a sticky price. Why are food and energy prices so much stickier in the U. K. than elsewhere? 2(of the weather) hot and damp; muggy. （天气）湿热的；闷热的 it was an unusually hot and sticky summer 那是一个极其湿热的夏天。 Example sentencesExamples The water lapped playfully closer and close to our toes and the cool sand embraced our bodies like a fresh sheet on a sticky summer night. This mix, accompanied by a sticky heat, climate and geography completely separate from the rest of the USA, creates a romantic mystery for the whole state. Right after we came ashore, we felt the sticky, humid air of the land hit our faces. Hot, sticky weather such as that we have been having for the last few days simply adds to stress, says Mrs Clarke - and makes it more likely that we will flare out of control. History is the eventual arbiter for all that is argued in the sticky, sweaty months of summer. The weather was very hot and sticky but the good news was no rain. The music is soulful, the weather is warm and sticky, and the women are beautiful. In an open-neck blue shirt, crisp denim jeans, brown suede shoes, and carrying a denim jacket, he is ideally dressed for the sticky weather. It's a great place to go in the summer when it gets very hot and sticky. Its so muggy and sticky and every time I breath in, the air feels disgustingly warm and damp. The sultry, sticky heat that usually hangs over central Japan in summertime might have been bothersome to many. If the weather is sticky, it is humid and not particularly pleasant. The air was so humid and sticky that it made breathing difficult. Not only is this the worst month of the year for hot and sticky weather, but we've had a couple of weeks of absolute train chaos. They proved that once again with a virtually flawless set on this sticky late summer evening. Summers at Valley Forge are miserably hot and sticky - not at all like the breezy cool of the Kenyan highlands. The Constitution of the United States was crafted over four hot, sticky months in the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia. Sitting in fringe theatres on sticky summer nights can be pretty purgatorial. When it is sticky and sweaty, no one really cares about drinking wisely and well. The nation's capital attracts every type of tourist in the sticky summer months. Synonyms humid, muggy, close, sultry, sweltering, steamy, oppressive, airless, stifling, suffocating, sweaty, soupy, like a turkish bath, like a sauna 2.1 Damp with sweat. （由于出汗）潮湿的 she felt hot and sticky and changed her clothes 她感到又热又潮湿，因此换了衣服。 Example sentencesExamples Patients often feel cool, yet clammy or sticky to touch, and sometimes have dilated hand veins. It is my heavily researched belief that high pressure has a horrible effect on people, they're sticky, they're clammy, their bile rises and they snap at each other. Arven wiped his slimy hands, which were now beginning to get disgustingly sticky. When they are sweating and get sticky, I just open up the harness zipper. They left the room and he pulled off the sticky, damp shirt. I couldn't help but notice how cool and dry Rick's hand felt, not moist and sticky. His hair was wet with sweat, and his face was flush and sticky. She dropped her luggage to the ground and immediately peeled her sweater from her moist, sticky skin. Perhaps it was a sensation crystallised by the potent mix of sun and alcohol, and sweat cooled onto a sticky back. Synonyms perspiring, sweating, clammy, glowing, moist, damp, slimy, soggy, dripping, drenched 3informal Involving problems; difficult or awkward. 〈非正式〉卷入麻烦的；困难的；难对付的 the relationship is going through a sticky patch 那种关系正在经历一段困难时期。 Example sentencesExamples Don't expect too much and make sure you don't get into any sticky situations. Junk bonds roared back into favour in the USA during the 1990s but the market has since hit a sticky patch. This is the latest in a growing number of sticky issues that threatens to delay final agreement on the document by its December deadline and push it over into the Irish presidency. The problem of soccer gambling has become too sticky even for local police to tackle. Issues to be tackled will include the public or private ownership of infrastructure and the sticky question of over-regulation. Time will come, one day, when you find yourself in a very sticky situation. There is, however, one sticky issue that keeps this arrangement from really reaching its true potential. It is a reality that marriages go through sticky times. Alas, as a woman with two lives, such situations soon become rather sticky. The traffic is much lighter this morning, albeit still quite sticky by any normal standard. Now she was stuck in a very sticky situation. The only sticky part is that when an invitation is sent very close to the event, then the recipient knows he was not on the original list, but most people roll with that. This is a sticky issue because one person's advertisement is another person's junk mail. Things are getting pretty sticky in the NFL these days when it comes to the quarterback position. I had, as I said, gotten myself into a rather sticky situation. He briefs us on the sticky subject of fakes and forgers, and offers sterling advice on how to care for a collection. The worst came when we hit a little sticky patch in November. Had Fletcher needed more fuel, the situation might have gotten a little sticky. Shrinking the grain size in steps is essential because things get increasingly sticky as you head down the size scale. So, if things get really sticky, could Ford sell off some of its big assets? Synonyms awkward, difficult, tricky, ticklish, problematic, delicate, touch-and-go, embarrassing, sensitive, uncomfortable 4(of a website or its content) attracting a long visit or repeat visits from users. 〈非正式〉（网站）人气旺的 make your site as sticky as possible to keep visitors there longer more and more often, web designers focus on the need to add sticky features to their sites Example sentencesExamples Library websites are already about as sticky as sites like Amazon, with an average stay of almost ten minutes. Websites are supposed to be sticky, they are supposed to change often enough that users are drawn back and, once there, discouraged from leaving. Constantly changing both the copy and imagery on your site helps maintain the sticky factor, which helps to bring visitors back to your site time and again. Controlling the content on the stickiest kids' site on earth is an increasingly sticky matter. Self-linking is one of the strategies to keep the users within a site, but there are other strategies to make sites sticky. By definition, search engine results aren't sticky: you're on your way somewhere else. Facebook and browser games are now a key element of many film and TV marketing campaigns - they're sticky, they're compelling and they give potential viewers ownership over stories and characters. By implementing these tools, you will end up adding value to your website while making your pages more sticky. We believe that eventually every major consumer-oriented company will need interactive programming - sticky content - for their Web sites. We build a site that is local, compelling and sticky that can drive traffic. The site is sticky, with about 20 percent of visitors staying for 20 minutes per day. The site is lucid about the complexities of its business model - how its sticky content will produce a growing mass of daily page views. Originally a way to stay above water by making their sites more sticky, developers now recognise the importance of social play in their community development and pour them into the design mix. Traffic at the Survivor site spikes during that program, with the average viewer clicking around for a very sticky 30 minutes. The use of Flash technologies saves production time and makes the site more interactive and sticky. To make your website stickier you can add a few simple interactive applications like site polls, surveys, a guest book, and an event calendar. Running a successful website can be a fulfilling activity, and it's my job to take you step by step through the route to creating a gorgeous, fast, accessible and sticky site. Page views are a good indication of how sticky your website is. The best thing about the site is that it provides an exceptionally sticky, single point of access for all things on the web concerning Ireland. Horoscopes in particular must be the original sticky content, keeping your visitors coming back day after day or week after week. 4.1 (of a thread in an online forum) set to remain at the top of the other threads regardless of when it was last updated. （网络留言板上能吸引浏览者长时间或多次浏览的）置顶留言 a sticky thread is now live on the forum Example sentencesExamples Would it be possible to make the thread sticky? You can have a sticky thread with the most understandable topic title ever and you'll still have muppets posting the same questions underneath. Maybe this post should be sticky so it always stays on top? I must admit that I'm not keen on the return of the 'three most recently replied to topics' idea but if we do bring that back, might sticky topics mess that up a bit? I'm chucking in another vote for sticky topics. I wanted to find out whether it was possible to have an option to 'minimise' the sticky section on any given thread? We thought it might be useful if we had a single post containing details of the most useful guides, links and resources that have appeared on this forum - hence the new sticky post that you will see in this section. How does all this relate to the concept of creating sticky group discussions? If you know of any topics that should be included in the sticky topics at the top of each forum, please tell that forum's moderator. I wish we had sticky threads, or maybe just a little new poster section. If you post in a sticky topic, you may find that the topic becomes "stuck" on your "New Posts" page as well. Note that in the Forum's Tarantino Books Corner, there is one sticky topic for each of the available Tarantino books, so it is very easy to find information on those books. I wonder if it would be a good idea to add sticky thread capability so we can have the equivalent of the 'Stupid Questions' at the top of every forum that needs one. Have we ever had sticky threads, I can't remember? It's been my long held opinion that we could get huge benefits from sticky threads for this sort of thing, should it become technically possible to implement. You can have more than one sticky post and you can easily change which posts are sticky. Should we make a sticky FAQ for this board? The post announcing the event should be sticky until the day of the event. I prefer having general help and advice on a static web page, rather than as sticky posts in a forum. We could just have one sticky thread that is always posted to whenever an announcement is made. 4.2informal Long-lasting or persistent. his new nickname has proved to be surprisingly sticky Example sentencesExamples Customers tend to stick around. ‘These are sticky, long-term contracts’. The sticky nature of these and so many other urban legends intrigued the authors. With the really sticky ideas, a company has told a story to people throughout the company and beyond, so that employees can make the right decisions on their own. Trinidad has a very rich history and culture which has proven to be sticky in an ever changing modern world. The sticky nickname of Health Nazis is now universally used by any opponent to define Tobacco Control. Some habits can be quite sticky and hard to change. As usual, the envy is largely baseless and dumb, but it's sticky and hard to shake. He has a bad habit of spreading sticky rumours about other residents. This view has proved remarkably sticky. These labels are, however, often based on assumptions and stereotypes - and can be sticky and difficult to shake off. These industries proved to be sticky, long-lasting, respectful to people and the environment and a key to innovation. The hard part is picking from several valuable ideas the single most valuable idea and making it as sticky as possible. There have been several failed attempts at advertising systems for online content, but some more recent methods have proven to be sticky. Psychiatric labels that define certain behaviours and beliefs as deviant are particularly sticky and difficult to escape from. Once our attention is grabbed, sticky ideas refuse to let go, holding our interest by creating in us a need to discover the outcome. Sometimes a carefully crafted given name simply gives way to a sticky nickname. A study done by an associate professor at Ohio State University has debunked the sticky myth that 9 out of every 10 restaurants fails in the first year. It's a sadly sticky nickname that was given to me by my best friend. The sticky idea that tests are measures of achievement persists. If you have followed the way the press operate over the past couple of decades, you can smell a sticky story that pushes the desired narrative a mile away. nounˈstikēˈstɪki (in an online forum) a thread containing important information that is set to remain at the top of the other threads regardless of when it was last updated. （网络留言板上能吸引浏览者长时间或多次浏览的）置顶留言 could you put a sticky in the forum for those of us that are confused? Example sentencesExamples Let me start by saying sorry if this has been posted elsewhere, but I couldn't find it in the sticky and I'm not sure how to search whole questions. The two useful threads are hidden amongst 20 threads that should not be stickies. I suggest to every new member to read the interesting stickies. Since it's been suggested there were too many stickies at the top of the forum, I'm going to add a layer of indirection and replace them with this thread. The Mint Forum has a number of stickies explaining how to configure Mint using familiar terms from the config files of your favorite blogging software. Should "Loop Back Test Instructions" be made into a sticky? This thread should really be a sticky. It remains the mentors' choice whether that thread has become good enough to be made into a sticky in the FAQ-forum. A lot of stickies were brought in from the sub-forums and probably shouldn't be stickies any more. Mods, can we get this video turned into a sticky? Phrases sticky fingers informal A propensity to steal. 〈非正式〉偷窃的习性，惯偷 Example sentencesExamples This is especially surprising in such a wealthy county - sticky fingers perhaps, somewhere? Who knows what really happened in that hotel where they are being accused of getting a major case of sticky fingers around a vending machine. Caught with sticky fingers Bob dismissed the sum as pocket change and handed it back. Oh, I enjoying firing people when I catch them with sticky fingers, stealing. And we have had a spot of bother with sticky fingers as well. A solid bike lock is also a good idea to help prevent someone with sticky fingers from leaving with your ride. Well actually, I don't think my cousin Albert would have been fine even if he didn't develop those sticky fingers - he never stayed with one job or woman very long. Call me paranoid but I see the long sticky fingers of our State Department at work here. And I think most Americans don't want politicians' sticky fingers going through their tax returns. I suspect sticky fingers were responsible for the ones that didn't arrive. adj.1 phr.
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