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Webster 1913 Edition


Sticking

Stick′ing

,
Adj.
&
Noun.
from
Stick
,
Verb.
Sticking piece
,
a piece of beef cut from the neck.
[Eng.]
Sticking place
,
the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point.

But screw your courage to the
sticking place
,
And we’ll not fail.
Shakespeare
Sticking plaster
,
an adhesive plaster for closing wounds, and for similar uses.
Sticking point
.
Same as
Sticking place
, above.

Definition 2024


sticking

sticking

English

Verb

sticking

  1. present participle of stick

Noun

sticking (plural stickings)

  1. A sequence or arrangement of drum notes to be played with drumsticks.
    • 1997, Gary Cook, Teaching percussion (page 72)
      Too often the beginning student finds it more difficult to observe the stickings when reading single beats or duple beat divisions (e.g., quarter notes and eighth notes in 4/4 time) than if he or she alternated freely from hand to hand.

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