sticky

Meanings

Adjective

• Able or likely to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
• Potentially difficult to escape from.
• Of weather, hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
• Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.
• Persistent.
• Appearing on all virtual desktops.
• Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
• Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.
• Similar to a stick

Noun

• A sticky note, such as a post-it note.
• A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
• A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
• A sweet dessert wine.

Verb

• to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.

Origin

• From stick + -y.