sticky meaning
EN
[ˈstɪki] [-ɪki] 
US WSticky
- Sticky may refer to:
- Adhesion, the tendency of dissimilar particles or surfaces to cling to one another
- Sticky (economics), resistant to change
- Sticky (comics), a book of gay erotic comics
- Sticky Fingaz or Sticky (born 1973), nickname of the US rapper and actor Kirk Jones
- Sticky note, a generic term for a Post-it note or competitor
- Sticky thread, an internet forum thread deemed important
- Sticky bit, a user ownership access-right flag that can be assigned to files and directories on Unix systems
- Sticky session, see Load balancing (computing)#Persistence
- NounPLstickiesSUF-y
- A sticky note, such as a post-it note.
- Her desk is covered with yellow stickies.
- (manufacturing) A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
- (Australia, colloquial) A sweet dessert wine.
- A sticky note, such as a post-it note.
- VerbSGstickiesPRstickyingPT, PPstickied
- AdjectiveCOMstickierSUPstickiest
- Able or likely to stick.
- Is this tape sticky enough to stay on that surface?
- Potentially difficult to escape from.
- This is a sticky situation. We could be in this for weeks if we're not careful.
- (computing, informal, of a setting) Persistent.
- We should make the printing direction sticky so the user doesn't have to keep setting it.
- (computing, of a window) Appearing on all virtual desktops.
- (Internet, of threads on a bulletin board) Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
- (Internet, of a website) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.
- A woman has come to me with the complaint that her website is not sticky: 70% of the visits last 30 seconds or less.
- Of weather, hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
- Able or likely to stick.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- You'd better lock up your belongings before handing your keys to a valet; some of them have sticky fingers.
- There are too many sticky fingers around for me to leave my purse unattended.
- The mud was thick and sticky underfoot, but we squelched through it nonetheless.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of sticky in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Morphemes
- Suffixes
- Words by suffix
- Words suffixed with -y
- Words suffixed with -y
- Words by suffix
- Suffixes
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Adjectives
- en stickying
- en sticky bit
- en stickybeak
- en sticky bun
- en sticky note
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "sticky" is an adjective. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb.